Apple Pie

I attempted making my first pie from scratch tonight. Let's just say if it was entered into a competition, it would of won the ugliest pie. Fortunately it tasted 1,000 times better than it looked. We are still cameraless, so no pictures of the pretty pie. I used Grandma Paricka's pie recipe, and when Joey had a slice he said "this tastes like my grandmas" so I must of done something right.
Nancy gave us a dozen apples she got from an orchard, so I think I am going to attempt making an apple crisp next.

Mid Week Check In

Hayden stayed home from PDO because he has a cough and slept in until 9:30 on Monday. He is acting fine, but has a nasty occasional cough. We ran some errands, and picked up lunch to enjoy at the park. It was a beautiful day and we had a great time eating and playing.
Today we took Benny to the vet for a haircut and his checkup. Hayden was wondering where Benny went all day and was very excited to pick him up at 5. Hayden was a little hesitant when I let Benny out of his carrier because he looked a lot different! We give Benny a lion cut, so a lot of his hair was missing. Once Hayden got over the shock of Benny's look, he couldn't get enough of him!
Tonight Joey's parents stopped over. We visited a while, and then went to Loenardos for pizza. It was a great evening and nice to spend time together.
Hayden has PDO tomorrow, and we are looking forward to a beautiful weekend. Hopefully it isn't the last before it turns frigid.

Birthday Parties and Oktoberfest

We had a great weekend.
Wednesday I went to Irish Democrat to celebrate Kari's birthday. It was a great evening out with the girls.
Friday Hayden and I helped Jerry celebrate his 2nd birthday. Jerry had a John Deere themed party. Hayden had a blast playing and eating cake at 11am. Lomen came to town at about 8pm. We had pizza and like usual stayed up way to late chatting and watching a movie.
Saturday my mom came to town to finish up a scrapbook for my sister, and the new little one on it's way. Joey and Lomen took Hayden to the park to fly a kite and play, so we could have uninterrupted time working on the book. Hayden was pooped when they got home and went right down for his nap.
We left for the Amanas shortly after for our annual Oktoberfest celebration. My mom stayed to watch Hayden for us so we could have an evening out. We met the Blake family and were excited to bring Lomen to our annual celebration. We ran into Joey's coworker Matt. He owns a part of Millstream brewery and just got done judging the home brew competition. They had a ton of beer left and invited us to try some out. We had a blast sitting in the back garage of the brewery and testing a ton of home brews! We meet a lot of fun people and laughed for hours! It was nice to have an evening out. We are already looking forward to going next year. Now Lomen is in for making it an annual event, and Kari and the crew will be joining us next year as well. Anyone else who wants to join in let us know!!!
Today we hung around the house. Hayden has a cough and was a little cranky all day. He just finished up his last dose of antibiotics, so I am hoping his cough will be gone tomorrow and he will be his happy "busy" self.
Unfortunately I don't have any pictures, because in an attempt to fix the button on the camera it is now completely broken. Joey is going to take it to work to see if he can fix it. Hopefully he can, or we will have to round up our old camera, if we can find it! :)

I am confident

that Hayden will have a long illustrious career as a rock/mountain climber. He can scale the kitchen cabinets using one knob and the face of the cabinet and flip himself over the counter before I can catch him from across the room.

Hayden has had a busy couple of days. He has kept me on my toes and has proven to showcase some more talents. I certainly have had my patience tested over and over, and have been using my sisters pre-baby advice of counting to at least 10. In the past 2 days Hayden has:
1. emptied out the liquid laundry soap into the dryer, and all over his train table
2. climbed his dresser
3. pushed over and climbed on his ottoman to reach in his built-ins
4. climbed our dresser
5. wiped my kerasal foot creme on his face and gave it a good taste
6. climbed the kitchen cabinets and broke the knob off of our camera on top of the counter
7. attempted to climb our tall narrow dresser only to have it tip over

But on the flip side he has given me a million smooches, hugs, and laughs. But seriously today is the first day I called Joey at work and told him I didn't think I was cut out for this stay at home mom business.
I took a nap when Hayden did and am feeling a lot better.
We are going to have a busy night attaching all of the dressers to the wall, re-installing the baby gate for the kitchen, and removing all possible movable climbing objects.

Some children call their mothers..............

mom, ma-ma, ma, mommie, mother.

Mine refers to me as honey.

Happy Friday!

I am looking forward to a weekend at home! Hopefully I get a lot accomplished. I don't have a to do list yet, but I am sure if I really thought about it I could come up with one.
Yesterday we took Hayden to the Dr. and he has an ear infection. I have been battling a sore throat and stuffy head for at least a week, so Joey and I went into our Dr. today. I have a sinus infection, and Joey's sore ear isn't an ear infection, just slow draining eustachian tubes. So Hayden and I are on antibiotics, and Joey has nasal spray.
Tonight we have a contractor giving us an estimate on facia soffets. He originally came to give us an estimate on siding as well, but can't do siding without changing the shape of our house. We like all of the curves of our home, so we decided against it. I am sure the facia and soffets will be a huge cost anyway, so I bet we won't do anything. It may motivate us though to paint our trim.:)
Then we are headed to our friends home to divy up our portion of a cow we had processed. We are splitting a 4th of a cow with them.
Then I am not sure what the rest of the weekend holds. I am sure it will fly by like usual.
Have a good one!

This pretty much sums up our weekend

Bellows Family Visit

We had a great weekend with the Bellows family!
We arrived late Thursday and hung out for a while before Hayden and I hit the sack. Joey and Matt sat in the hot tub and chatted until the wee hours of the morning.

Friday we went to the outlet mall. Then after we got the children settled in for the evening Stacy and I went to a jewelry party at her friend's home. Joey and Matt went night golfing in a tournament. Matt's niece Amy watched the kids. Hayden cried a lot, as Emma reported. He wanted his Daddyo as he calls Joey. He did go to bed and cried for 10 minutes. I was pleased he went to bed without putting up a big fight. Stacy and I enjoyed the hot tub when we got home. It was a perfect evening, and was nice to chat!

Saturday we went to a kids fair in a neighboring town. Joey stayed home and did homework. The kids had a blast. Hayden got to go in a firetruck, and ambulance. He loved seeing all of the animals, playing the carnival games, and watching Emma in the blow up jumping things.
Matt tilling his yard


Joey and Hayden watching


Trying out Matt's new toy



Saturday evening we left the kids with Amy again, and went out to dinner. Hayden only cried for a few minutes. We had a yummy Mexican dinner at Acapulco. Then it was off to one of Matt's accounts for drinks and BINGO. We had a blast, and it was great to hang out and chat.

We had a great weekend and like usual it flew by!