Catie's 1st Birthday

Today was Catie's 1st Birthday! While I was shopping at Wal-Mart to get the groceries we needed to go hunting tomorrow, I decided to buy some cupcakes for Catie to have on her birthday since we aren't celebrating her birthday til the 25th due to us going hunting this weekend, my Mom being gone, and Joyce and Hugh coming out! I can't believe how fast this last year has gone by! HAPPY BIRTHAY CATIE!

Travis gave her her cupcake!

Bekka helped blow out the candle

Catie got mad when Bekka took her cake to take off the paper

Then we let her have at it! What a MESS!!!!! Now I think she knows what to do next Saturday when we have her PARTY!!!!!!!!! :)

Such a nice little girl to share!!!! :)

Black Island Farms

Once again we went to Black Island Farms in Syracuse to get our pumpkins. This year we went with our neighbor Heather, her kids Matt & Avery and we also brought Bekka's & Avery's friend Lexi. They took us out to the pumpkin patch and we were able to each choose our own pumpkin! After everyone's pumpkins were chosen, I was able to choose a pumpkin for Abbi and Travis. We take Abbi a Jack-o-Lantern on Halloween morning and my sister Stacey goes up and lights it for us! We were able to use a $2.00 coupon for each of us so for Bekka, Catie and I to go on the hay ride it cost $9.00! Not bad!!!!

I had heard that if the farm doesn't do to well this year and next they may have to sell the farm :( That makes me sad since we just started this tradition last year! You wouldn't believe the size of these pumpkins! They were all really good size! Bigger than the ones I have seen in the bins at the Wal-Mart!

If any of you haven't gotten your pumpkins yet, it is worth the trip to go out to Black Island Farms....thier website is www.blackislandfarms.com , the address is 3180 South 3000 West in Syracuse! Take Antelope West to 3000 West and turn Left, continue South until you see the Farm! They also have a produce market where you can purchase carrots, fresh squash, onions, etc...There are alot of other activities to do there as well! They have a huge corn maze!!! Check it out online!

Catie gets teeth

She is now a year old and I first noticed her tooth poking through on 10/9. Most of you who know Catie, know that she likes to stick her tongue out alot of the time! So trying to get a picture of this was pretty hard to do! I keep trying daily to get a picture of her tooth! It has now gotten through, so when I do finally get a better picture of it, I will post it!

Sunday Morning.....First Snow of the Season

This morning I got up with Travis to get him out the door at 3:00 am and Catie had woken up, so I went and got her and nursed her back to sleep. Then I went back to bed and Bekka woke me up at 8:00 this morning, which is very unusual for her to be up before 10:00 on the weekends! I asked her to check to see if it had snowed like it was supposed to and she was so excited to see that it had! She wanted to go outside and play in it right away! I told her she had to wait for a little while since it was still kinda early. So we got up, made some breakfast and I wanted to take some pictures of the snow! It is just after 11:00 am now and we all still in our jammies staying comfy and warm inside. We probably got 2" of snow on the grass, but none of it stuck to the streets!


***UPDATE*** It is now about 3:20 in the afternoon and all of the snow has melted! :( I had told Bekka that I would go out with her while Catie took her nap and make a snowman, but when Catie went down, the snow had pretty much melted to where we didn't have enough to even make a snowball. :( Well, I guess we have ALL WINTER long!

Maggie's first time out Duck Hunting

Yesterday was Maggie's first time out duck hunting! Travis said she did pretty well for her first time out! Jim who also works for Frehner but down in the Las Vegas office came up to stay with us and go along! They got up at 2:00 am and left at 3:00 am! They met another Jim down at Farmington Bay (where they have been going for years) and didn't return until about 3:00 pm! They had alot of fun and shot alot of birds!

Mommy's Little Helper

Every time I go and open up the dishwashser, Catie comes crawling as fast as she can to help me load/unload it! Now to load it, I have to rinse the dishes and leave them in the sink until she has her nap or goes to bed, unless she is in her high chair. And when I unload it when she is awake, I have to hurry and pull everything out of it and put it all on the counter so she doesn't try to pull stuff out, especially the silverware (there is usually sharp knives in it). Yesterday morning I was unloading the dishwasher and she, as usual, climbed into it! She always gets so mad at me when I pull her out of it!

First she has to move the dish bin.

Then she climbs inside!

She has so much fun doing this! :)

Been Tagged!!!!

Tagged by: My Sister Shannon

1. I have only owned a new car once....driven off of the lot with 21 miles on it! It was my 1996 Toyota Tercel that my sister Stacey now has!
2. I have more $ invested in scrapbooking than my husband Travis does in guns for hunting.
3. I have just as many animals as I have children! 2 cats and 1 dog.
4. I have never shot a deer before, I have had a tag before, but never shot one! Hopefully next weekend I will shoot my first deer.
5. When I eat salads w/dressing, syrup with pancakes or french toast, I have to put it on the side and I dip it!
6. I love to cook and lately my favorite thing to make is home made pizza! The last one I made last week has been the best!!!!!
7. This is my favorite time of year, I love the holiday season! From Oct 1st through New Year's Eve! If Travis would let me, I would put up my Christmas Tree Oct 1st....but I guess the week before Thanksgiving is early enough! LOL :)

Now I tag: Beth Borup, Amanda West, Sally Wade, Beckie Gold

We were nearly to late!

Today the girls and I went up to Snowbasin ski resort so that I could take some pictures with the fall colors. It was still pretty overcast, but I decided we better get going. So we got ready and headed out. It's a good thing we got there when we did because about 45 mintues after we started taking some pictures, it started to sprinkle....then about 15 minutes after that, it was down pouring again! The Fall colors look so pretty when they are wet. The only down side to the rain today was that Catie got her new clothes dirty because I had to sit her on the wet ground. I think if I had waited a few more days, I wouldn't have found any red leaves left on any of the trees! Next year, I will go up a week or two earlier than I did this year! It was still so beautiful though to see all of the yellows, browns, oranges and some of the reds! Bekka kept saying how pretty the mountains look.

One thing I do love though is a good digital camera! LOL... I probably shot about 300 pictures of the girls today and maybe 75 of them are ones that I liked and 50 of the 75 are ones that I LOVED! I know any of you who own a digi camera know what I mean! If I had been using a film camera......all I can say is it would have cost me alot of $$$$$$$$$$$. I never have the heart to delete any of the pictures I take, so I end up burning all of the photos to cd's and keep them in case I ever decide that I need them......But anyway, I didn't want to post all of my favs because most of them are the same pose, just with a different expression on thier faces. But any Family members who would like to choose the photos that I will have printed for them this year, let me know and I will let you see all of them so you can decide for yourselves which ones you would like to have!

Rain, Rain go AWAY!

It has been raining ALL DAY!!!!

At about 11:00 this morning, I looked under my deck to find that my patio was flooding. I thought I better run outside and get the tubes to hook to the down spouts and did that, when I went out the basement door, the water was about to start coming up into the house and we had just finished our basement! With Travis in Alabama this weekend for the Talladega NASCAR race, I was here to try to figure out how in the world I was going to get rid of all of this water! First thought was I would get a bucket and start carting it out to the grass. Then I decided I better call Travis and let him know what is going on. When I called he reminded me that we had bought a submersible pump that was up in the garage. So I went out and got it, hooked it up and it started pumping away!!! After about 20 minutes or so, we finally had all of the water gone! I was so relieved! Here are some pictures of all of the water we have in the yard!!! I don't think we will have to water the grass for quite awhile!


(The pictures of the patio water were taken after the water had been pumping out for awhile. The water was ankle deep near the chair and rocks and was covering my feet closer to the house)