Family Week

No this post is not about Avalon's family week last week! The LAST thing I would blog about is work....BLAH!

This is about Stetson's school and the family week that they put on last week. Each family signed up for a 20 minute time slot and you could pretty much do whatever you wanted during that time but it had to somehow represent your family...so we chose to bring Stetson's current siblings AKA our dogs! Of course, to a 4 year old, it doesn't get any better than getting to bring your dogs to school with you!!

Stetson talked about his "job" at home which is feeding the dogs every day and how important it is for him to fill up their bowls when they are empty. He talked about how we drove "very very far away" to get Sassy and that we "took her away from her old home and brought her to her new home and called her Sassy Pants". He mentioned that Berkley is "really very old" and that Sassy is "our baby". The kids were so excited to play with the dogs and asked Stetson LOTS of questions and he was beaming from ear to ear with pride answering them!

Priceless.

Fall 2010

As I have said a thousand times before...FALL IS MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR! It feels like we every weekend we had some sort of fall festivity planned with family or friends and I relished it ALL! I also went to Frightmares for the first time this year which was fun but we had to leave and didn't hit up any of the haunted houses =(


My camera is nearing the end of its life and doesn't take pictures like it used to so I don't even bother taking it out at night anymore but here's some pics of the corn maze, American West Heritage Center, hanging out with Grandpa Reed, Stetson's 4 yr check-up and Halloween! I can't believe 2010 is coming to an end already!


The American West Heritage Center with Rhonda and Tayson!
The two boys steering the pirate ship

Jumping off hay bales and of course the day wouldn't be complete without a little sulking in the corn maze because we were LOST and STARVING....not a good combination when you have a 2 year old and 4 year old with you! Luckily they survived until we made it to Mickey D's!

Leading the way...It didn't matter who led though because we just walked in circles for over an hour and came back out the entrance.....can you say DEFEATED? Oh well, there's always next year!
Trick Or Treating with a wounded cub scout, Woody, Buzz, a princess witch and Jayzen (I can't remember for the life of me what his cute little costume was!)

Dad blowing up Buzz's wings before take-off and Buzz and Woody posing together for me =)

Stets wanted so badly to have Sassy in the picture with him but as you can see she was her usual hyperactive-on-crack self and is just a blur!

Stets is always worried about how Grandpa Reed is doing and if his leg is all better yet. I hate telling him day after day that Grandpa STILL needs crutches and this boot because it makes Stets sad. Oh well at least the boot is good for a little entertainment every once in a while =)

I took Stetson for this 4yr check-up in October. He is 97% for height and 75-80% for weight. This kid has been a long, lean bean pole since the day he was born. Skylar is 6' 2" and he severely hopes Stetson surpasses him in height but only time will tell! Stets still has his nagging seasonal allergies but other than that he is a healthy little boy! He got his Kindergarten shots at this appt and was such a TROOPER! I was so proud of him and now we don't have to do it next year!! The Dr. said he was impressed with Stetson's counting, verbal skills and creative thinking. Way to go my little man!

Looking back I have no idea where this year has gone but I know that next year will go even faster because I found out last week that I was accepted into the RN program which will start full-time in Jan and go until Dec. I will however have the Summer off which will be nice. I am already dreading the hustle and bustle my life will be once Jan 3rd rolls around but I am so very blessed to be able to pursue this dream of mine and WHAT DOESN'T KILL ME WILL ONLY MAKE ME STRONGER!