Oct. 2009 Updates

I am sooo behind, but I want to get these pictures and updates up...I don't not want to have this on here.

So here we are into October already. Where has the year gone? We are a very busy family, but we are having fun every minute.

This month brought Halloween and that meant that we needed to figure out what Donny was going to be. We got a catalog in the mail...and he picked the UPS man. I don't know why, but that is what he wanted. And of course only my son would say, well...I need a truck to drive too. We were going to make his wagon into a UPS truck..but that never happened...and he was ok with that.

But he was just stinkin adorable in his outfit...and everywhere that we went, he was the only UPS guy!!!! LOVED IT!

This month also brought the pumpkin patch...we just love going. The only thing is, this year we

went a little late and so the good pumpkins were very scarce. But we did manage to find a couple of good ones. And I still cannot believe how busy the pumpkin patch is every year we go. It seems like it gets busier every year...I am sure it does!

Here are my boys with the pumpkin that Donny picked out. I love this picture. My boys...I love them so much. And look at my little man, he is all grown up. Where has the time gone? Wasn't just yesterday that we brought our little baby to the pumpkin patch? Crazy how time flies when you are having fun!

This month also brought some nice weather for us. We got to play outside a lot of days before I went into work. And one day I decided to take the camera outside with us. We have a little boy on our hands that just loves to have his picture taken...and I

love that.

This picture was taken in our front yard and I then took it and made it black and white on our computer. I love that I am able to do this, as it makes pictures look AWESOME!!! I am hoping to do this again in the fall with some different colors. But that blue was great for him!

There are times that I don't get the best smile or he sticks his tongue out at me...but sometimes those are great pictures as well. That shows his personality. And he is one very silly little boy...he gets that from his Daddy. :-)

And we also had plenty of playdates with Donny's best friend Kylee....they are soooo cute together. And I love that they are best friends!!! Don't they make a cute couple??? They are growing up way too fast...I can't believe that next spring (2011) we will be registering Donny for kindergartin....that can't be possible....WOW is all that I can say to that.

October was a great month...let's hope that November is great as well...

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Our Update Aug.-Sept. 2009

Here we go...after this, hopefully things will go better and I remember to come on here and write.

August 2009

The garden was about done and we were getting ready to harvest some green peppers. We had a great time with the garden, but we did figure out some things that we would have to change next summer. And we are ready for that. On the second weekend of August, Little Donny came down with a very bad flu bug. He was out the entire weekend too. I have never seen my little man so sick. He just laid on the floor and watched tv and slept. We thought that he was getting better and he ate lunch on Monday (hadn't gotten sick in over 24 hours). By the time that I got home Monday night, he started acting sick again. He feel asleep and woke up a very short time later, sick. We then took him into Bronson Vicksburg and had him checked out. My little man had to have blood drawn that night as well. Not very fun for me. But everything came back just fine and he just had a virus.

We continued going to the race track on the weekends that we could. Don was doing alright. At times we just couldn't get past first round. Not sure what was going on there, but we were still up in points. So that is good. We finished out the month in at least 6th place. So we knew that we needed to stay up there to get to finals at the end of September. Donny loves going to the races. I don't think that we will be able to keep him away from the track very easily now. He has it in his blood and he is so ready to do some racing of his very own!

All in all, August was a good month. We had some rough times, but we bounced back and had some great times.

September 2009

September marked the one year anniversary of my job. I am so happy to be working at the daycare. I truly can say that I love my job.

This month marked a lot of firsts for our family.

On Labor Day weekend we went and picked up our puppy that we picked out in July. He is a little papillon. His name is Jumper. And yes, we let Donny name him. His full papered name is Jump in the air. How he got his name. We aren't sure, he didn't hardly move when we picked him out. But Donny and Jumper are the best of friends. And Jumper is just plain adorable. We can't wait to watch Jumper grow and continue to learn.

We took Donny to the apple orchard for the first time. And he loved it!!! This is the first time for me in awhile as well, and I must go back. I now remember how much I loved going and picking apples every year. Donny wasn't sure about riding the wagon to the apple trees, but on the way back it was the coolest thing ever. He loved the tractors and wanted to just keep riding them.

Our next first would be going to the Kalamazoo Valley Museum. I have been there, but Donny had not. And he loved it. And the best part about this museum is that it is FREE and we all love free! Donny really loved the race track in the hands on area. Go figure my son liking a race track. Who would have known? But Daddy also liked the race track. So that was perfect for the two of them. They played on that for at least half an hour. The other exhibit that Donny liked was the shaking sand table. He liked putting his hand in it and watching the sand just go over his hand automatically. He had a blast.

Lastly, we took our first trip to Jungle Joes. And oh man...what a fun place. The nice thing about Jungle Joes is that Donny can play on all of the jumpy things. At other places he wouldn't have been able to. Donny loved it. I did play as well. And I did have to carry him up a few of the slides. But all in all, it was so worth it. To see Donny's face light up when he went down the slide..amazing! I am just happy that Don was able to go and take pictures. Otherwise, I would not have been able to see his face ( or mine for that matter). Yes, I was very sore the next day, but again it was worth it! Can you tell how much Donny enjoyed it by the picture that I have inserted? This is priceless!

I am sure that we will be visiting Jungle Joe's many more times in the future. It is a great time for the entire family!