Halloween post #1

Tonight Casey and I decided that we were going to carve out pumpkins. A few days ago we went out to the pumpkin patch at purdums and picked out our very own pumpkins. I got a white one, Casey got a green one and Adelyn got an orange one. I was searching through all the free pumpkin carving templates on the internet and I decided to do Tinkerbell, Casey decided to do Frankenstein and I picked out a cute little puppy for Adelyn's pumpkin. Here are some pictures of us picking out the pumpkins and then a little collage of how they turned out. :)

Casey ridding with Adelyn on the hayride to get out to the pumpkin patch

Casey found his pumpkin

Then I found mine

Our family all together with Adelyn's pumpkin

And these are our pumpkins. :) I think they turned out cute!

Fall...

It seems like this year is just flying by! Casey and I have been so busy lately we have traveled at lot! I told you part of our traveling in the previous post but since then, we drove 13.5 hours to Colorado to see Coree, Casey's sister she was in a bad accident. Coree was driving on the freeway to go to school, and this little old man had pulled off to the side of the road and then pulled his truck and trailer out if front of her and she T-boned the truck. The people in the other car seem to be worse off than her, the little man was bleeding from the ears, the lady broke her pelvis, and shoulder and other things. Coree was lucky and just has cuts and bruises and some physical therapy. Scott and Coree had just bought a new Toyota highlander on Friday and she wrecked it on mon, but if she would have been in her old little car she would have died, so we are so lucky that she got a new car!

This is Coree highlander

This is the truck the man was in.

Adelyn is now 9 months old as of yesterday, she is doing so well. She crawls everywhere, loves to feed herself (she doesn't like baby food anymore so she just eats what we are eating) She is waving more, and the now reaches up when she wants you to pick her up. She has her 9 month appt next tues. she gets more shots, and we'll see where she falls in the %

of height and weight. She was sick so we went to the Dr. and she had actually lost 2 lbs since our last visit to the Dr. and it doesn't make sense cause she eats everything in sight. The other night we went to the pumpkin patch and had Adelyn pick out her own pumpkin. Casey picked out a green one, Adelyn has an orange one, and I got a white one. I think they will be cute on our porch.

She loves to feed herself and she actually eats more when she feeds herself.

When we were at Coree's she had her first egg roll and loved it!

As for Casey and I, Casey is working on framing the new firehouse in New Plymouth, it is just a temp job for like 2 weeks. When we went to Washington, I took a tour of the hospital there and like a week later they called me and told me they had a position opening up and I should apply. Casey and I talked about it and we decided that we would apply and see where it went. I had two interviews one that was just a regular interview, and the other was a working interview I drew some people at a health fair they were hosting. I think I did well on both interviews, we won't know if I got the job til next week, they did call me and asked me about some stuff on my resume which means they are contacting my references. If we do get the job we'll be moving to Moses Lake Washington and we'll live with my aunt and uncle for a couple months til

we can afford a house. We are still trying to decide if we want to buy or rent.

Casey went on his first hunting trip with us two weekends ago. There were 4 of us that had tags, and all 4 of us killed something, nothing big but meat is meat. Then this last weekend Wendi and Bo went up and killed some really nice bucks.

I just went through gallbladder surgery. On night I was woke up by this horrible pain in my stomach, we went to the ER and they did an ultra sound and told me that I had gall stones and that my gallbladder had to be removed. I went to my interview and then we came back home and they took it out on Tues. I am still in pain and it's Friday but they said it would hurt for a little while. When he went to take it out, he said my gallbladder was connected abnormally, I

always have the weird stuff. I don't know why but I do. I have 4 incisions one is right in my belly button but the are all pretty small. Hopefully I will be back to normal as soon as I can be.

This is me waiting to go back for my surgery, they had a really hard time getting an IV in, they stuck me 6 times.

Casey and I were going through stuff in our garage, we are trying to get rid of a lot of our stuff, and saw a tub was falling I went to catch it and it smashed my wedding ring to my finger. Casey had to pry it off with some pliers.

We also have family pictures coming up on Nov. 12th. My whole family is gonna come and take one big family picture together and then just Casey and I will take some family pictures. We have a tutu and feather head piece for Adelyn and were gonna stick her in a pumpkin I think it is all going to be so cute! I think that is it for right now, I will try and make this daily or weekly thing so I don't have to do these big long catch up posts but I did have pictures this time so that makes it nice.

Finally and Update!!!

So I know that I haven't updated this in awhile so this is going to be a long post. Adelyn is now 8 months old, she is up on all 4's trying to crawl she hasn't quite got it yet but she is so close! She Loves to eat!!! And I mean loves! She eats off of Casey's and my plates all the time, and she eats her baby food too. She Loves bread, and she likes these things called rice husks, they are like adult rice cakes but for babies and she eats these yogurt bites that dissolve in her mouth, she loves those too, that is what kept her quiet on our most recent airplane ride to California. She is cooing more and she growls at everyone. At her last appointment that was this past week she weighed in at 18lbs 8 oz. She is doing better sleeping she goes to bed around 9pm and then she wakes up at 130am and 6am and then doesn't wake up for good until 9am or after that.

Casey finally got to come home from Iraq, he got home 2 1/2 weeks early even cause he didn't have to go to his training. He has been home for three weeks and it has been fabulous! He got home on a Monday and then on Wednesday we went to go visit my Uncle Clint and Aunt Connie in Washington for a week and it was a lot of fun we just relaxed. I sewed a little bit and that was about it. Then while we were there Casey's family called and asked if we'd meet them in Salt Lake City the next weekend. So we went and met them (Todd, Janet, and Dale) in Salt Lake and went to the wedding reception and then just hung out.

Then Casey and I went to my craft fair, we did pretty good. We handed out a lot of business cards, and sold some stuff and got to talk with a lot of people. We have another one coming up in November and I hope it goes as well.

Casey and I got to spend out anniversary together this year, it is our second but the first we have spent together. My mom watched Adelyn and Casey and I went to the Anniversary Inn I had a gift certificate so we stayed there two nights and had a really fabulous weekend! I am so happy to have him back, it is nice to be able to wake up to your best friend again. We are super excited to be a little family again. We have taken lots of pictures so I have lots to post. :)

This is Addi and her lovely Daddy. :)

Some of her expressions just kill me! She is so happy all the time

This was our little family picture at the wedding reception.

Adelyn's favorite spot to sleep is on her daddy her and daddy take quite a few naps with each other.

I love her face in this picture, her little crooked smile kills me!