Our Birthday

Weston and I had so much fun on our birthday. We invited our friends over for cake, ice-cream, and games. We had a great party and had fun celebrating together. Haylee was having a sleepover at my parent's house so after the party Weston and I decided to go see a late night movie. We get on the freeway only to get stuck in traffic for an hour. There was a horrible accident that shut down the freeway so we weren't even moving. By the time we got out of it it was almost 1 am and we didn't make it to our movie. We were sad, the one time we get to go out late all by ourselves and be party animals, we are stuck in traffic. Well the party lives on today for Halloween. Hope everyone has a fun day!!

October 30th

Weston and I's conversation went something like this, this morning, "Hey Weston, good morning and Happy Birthday." "Thanks babe, you too!"

pre halloween

Roloff Farm

Weston and I have loved watching little people big world ever since we have been married. So we were so excited to be able to go to their farm when we moved to Oregon. We had so much fun! The best pumpkin patch we have been too. For me I just wanted to see the stars of the show and I wasn't disappointed. The roloffs are great and it was fun meeting them.

The twins, Jeremy and Zach

The man of the farm, Matt and little jacob. Jacob was doll, he was just hanging by his dad the whole time.

And yes I did yell for Jeremy from far away to please take a picture with me. I am one of those people who love the stars. And yes he did put his arm around me, and yes I have a tiny crush on him now even though he's 19 and even though he wears skinny jeans.

And little zach, we love little zach, he was working hard driving the tours all day.

an update

This is Weston and Haylee with the flu. Not bad huh? We got them on tamiflu so early that they are already getting much better. Thanks for the comments and phone calls, but we are doing well and will be back to our daily routine soon.

the yucky no fun flu

I have been terrified of the swine flu since we all first heard about it in April. Even during the summer months when most people forgot about it I was stocking up on hand sanitizer, tissues, medicine, and food, knowing it would be back to haunt in the fall. As mild as I kept hearing it was, I was still terrified of it. But I'm not scared of it anymore. I have conquered the swine flu!Top 10 things I have learned from my own experience with the swine flu 1. Trying to isolate yourself from your toddler and husband is nearly impossible. 2. Your fever will never, ever, ever go away for at least 3 whole days, no matter how much medicine you take. 3. Now that I'm on tamiflu I feel like a million bucks. 4. I was so tired that I couldn't even lift myself from the couch. 5. Weston was my hero and took over the role of everything in the house, but I didn't get quite as much sympathy as I wanted. That's what a phone call to mom is for. 6. It didn't matter what was on tv, I just blankly stared at the screen, too exhausted to take anything in. 7. I am a really, really ugly person when I have the swine flu. 8. The best thing about the flu is that I still had a huge appetite so hunger and deyhdration is not a factor. 9. I'm sure I spread it to so many people because I felt fine and then I was sick. It comes on so fast, so I'm sorry to all those people who I spread my lovely germs too. I did a lot of errands that day. 10. Now that I'm on the downhill from it I hope I can get the energy to take care of my sweet baby girl who now has it.

I know this post is boring to most people and who cares about the swine flu but I was one of those paranoid ones so I had to share.

Good tunes!

I feel like she's 1 going on 16!!!!!!

Traditions

We went on our second annual trip to the Lee Farm pumpkin patch. It was such a great fall day and so fun to pick out our pumpkins and see all the farm animals. Haylee was in heaven.

This is the pumpkin Haylee picked out. She wanted to find the smallest pumpkin on the farm and I think she did. She hasn't let it go since. She even brought it to church the next day.

Then we had our second annual Family Fall photo shoot

I've learned that we are a pretty unphotogenic family. I think we are much cuter in person, but I love family pictures so we'll keep up with our tradition of fall photo shoots. A big thanks to Stacey, my sister, who was our photographer.

An artist at work

Anyone who knows Haylee well enough knows that she never leaves the house without some sort of drawing utensil in her hand. Whether it be crayons, pencils, pens, or markers she doesn't go anywhere without them. And so it goes in our house. Haylee is usually at the table forming some sort of masterpiece. Weston is actually very artistic but I on the other hand only draw stick figures and they are funny looking. I am so sick of Haylee destroying every shirt she has with marker and crayons so I took the plunge and bought her a smock today. That's it, she is officially an artist. So now if you see us at the store she will not only have markers in hand but she will probably be wearing her smock.