Good buddies!

While Chet's at school, Zane and Reid have so much fun together playing! I love the extra bonding time they get together, and love seeing how much closer they've become!

Reid is so strong! Giving Zane a ride around on the bike! It's great to be chauffeured!

We all got a cold this week, so Chet got to stay home one day to help recoup! It worked thankfully, and he was so happy to return to school the next day! I love how he's all snugly with Curious George! (this is Zane's favorite!)

Let's play!

Cute brothers!

It is so cute to see Reid wanting to be included in Chet and Zane's play! They were playing policeman and fireman catching the 'bad guys' the other night, and Reid carried over to me the fireman outfit wanting me to put it on so he could play too! So cute! I love seeing how they all love playing together! =)

Our cute boys!

Cute boys!! Chet, 5 1/2...Zane 3 1/2...Reid 17 1/2 months


Dad did a really good job at making them laugh! =D

Family time!

Reid spied Daddy's coffee on the table when he wasn't looking, and climbed up to take a couple sips!

Mmmmm! Reid loves coffee!

We had a fun sleep out in the living room together! The boys loooved it!

Hawthorne School Civil War!

Chet's elementary school had a Civil War canned food drive that ended the week before Thanksgiving! It was a lot of fun....seeing whether the Duck fans, or the Beaver fans would bring in the most canned food, (the Beaver's won!) and then on the last day of the drive, Benny the Beaver, and Puddles the Duck came to their school!! The boys were soooo excited to meet Benny the Beaver!

Miss Thompson, Chet's kindergarten teacher, who is a huge duck fan, with Benny the Beaver!

Puddles and Benny signing autographs for the kids!

The younger kids lined the hallway of the school watching the older kids, and Benny and Puddles carry the collected canned food to a truck outside the school. It was really loud as the kids cheered them on, and super fun! (Gavin M. and Gavin G. from Chet's class)

Oh My!!

We had our ultrasound for our baby the other day, Monday the 7th! We all loved seeing pictures of baby, and were so happy to find out that baby is doing really good and is nice and healthy! =) Chet and Zane especially liked seeing pictures of baby! Chet thought that baby would be a girl, Zane was hoping for a boy, and both daddy and mommy thought baby would probably be a boy also! But...we were in for a big surprise, as we are having a little girl!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so shocked, and still am! We are very excited to welcome a little girl into our house and home!! It will be a big change from what we are used to, but will be wonderful! The boys are so excited to have a little sister, and a little baby to love, and already have a special place for her in their hearts! It is so sweet, and I love seeing that =)

What a sweetie! All snuggled up and cozy to mom!

Baby is 1/2 a pound right now at 18 weeks along!

It was really neat to see baby with her mouth open, and tongue moving up and down! What a miracle everything is, and super neat that we can see what's going on via ultrasound!

I love my goofy boys!

We loooved going to Papa and Nana's house for a weekend a couple of weeks ago! Zane especially was being so silly with his coffee can hat!

The boys found a good climbing tree in their backyard!


We loooved some special company come stay with us...Larry G. and Zach Z.! It really takes something to win Zane over, and here he was willingly sitting in Zach's lap reading a book! It was very sweet! Love so much the relationship the workers can have even with younger kids...


Bullet and Reid are super good buddies! Reid loves to go by Bullet and lay either on him, or right by him! They both love their snuggle time! So sweet!

Circus, circus!

The circus came to Corvallis a couple of weeks ago so off we went to check it out! Gavin, Chet's school friend, and the son of the secretary that works at the warehouse came with us too along with Josh, Zach, and Martha! The kids looooved the circus, the tricks, and the animals!

A fun day at the Children's Museum!

Chet had no school one Friday, so we went off on a fun adventure to the Children's Museum in Portland! The boys had sooo much fun, and even as we were loading up in the suburban to go home said they wanted to go again tomorrow, so I guess it was a successful fun day!

I wish we had a room in our house that was a digging pit! How cool would that be?!

Making something special with clay...

The boys, and especially Reid, loved playing in the Water Works room! Splashing around in water is so much fun!

Emergency!

Driving on the city bus!

Chet's first field trip!

Chet had his first school field trip a couple of weeks ago to a pumpkin patch at Lone Pine Farms out of Eugene! Siblings were welcome to come also, so Mommy, Zane, and Reid had fun joining Chet and his classmates on the fun day and had fun helping out a bit!

Chet and Dylan! Being Ninja's! Dylan fit right into our family of camo!

Going into the pumpkin patch maze!

Choo-choo!

A hunting we will go!!

We loooved going buck hunting last week in Eastern Oregon with Papa & Nana, Jim & Irene C., and Ryan & Jessica and girls who came for the weekend! Will and Ryan grew up hunting in this area, and when I had first met Will, I went along on a couple of their hunting trips too! (my first hunting experience!) So, it was extra special to be back again, kind of like a reunion with some of those who were in the hunting party years ago! The boys loved hunting so much!! They had a blast being out in the woods, playing around camp, and spotting animals! We were so glad (and lucky too) to fill four of five hunting tags. (the deer population seemed to be small this year with a lot of hunters going home empty handed) What special days those were!

I loved hunting with my best hunting buddy! Cannot wait to do more of it as our family grows!