Thanksgiving 2013

We enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving full of family fun!  We alternate each year on where we eat dinner and spend most of the day.  This year we were at my parents house and for the first time in forever the whole family was together.  The cousins had a great time playing and spending some of their energy outside.  Hunter and Wes were so worn out they even took naps!  The food was wonderful and of course ate too much but there was still enough food left over to take home.

We left around 6:00 and stopped by Jeremy's parents on the way home.  Since Hunter had taken a nap he was good for a couple hour visit with Jeremy's parents, grandparents and uncle.

Cousins 

Jeremy and Hunter (yes, it was planned for them to have similar shirts.
Hunter thought it was pretty neat being dressed like daddy:-)

playing outside

The Graber family

the boys

Wes and Bow

having fun

nap time

Gramps and Gran with the 2 younger boys

Grandma with her great-grandsons

one super TIRED dog!

Great-Grandpa Bob

Papa and Hunter

Uncle Mark and Hunter

G-ma with Hunter

Great-Grandma Peggy and Hunter

Hunter and momma:-)

Fun pictures from November

I did a horrible job at blogging in November!!  Here are some pictures of what the month was like.

Cousin Love

playing at the park

drink break

two sweet boys

one tired boy on the way home from visiting Wes in Lawrence
with chocolate chip cookie all over his face:-)

He put the tents together himself

Hunter with his great-uncle Mark

Jayhawk!!  at Rally House

Fun at Academy Sports

warm day = outside play

Bow...good looking doggy:-)

batting practice

stopping to look at an airplane flying over

Bow and Hunter

doing some mowing

Bow is never far behind Hunter

shooting practice

slam-dunk time

reading time

lots of leaves

watch them fly

Hunter was big help with the rake

making sure all the leaves are out of the mower

time to rest

Baby Update

In October we found out that we are having a baby girl!  I wanted to do a fun gender reveal so in order to do that I didn't tell anyone when we were having our sonogram.  I didn't even tell Jeremy until a few days before just to be sure nothing was slipped.  It didn't take the tech long to type in on the screen "I'm a girl".

After our appointment we went to lunch and to buy some pink balloons.  We put the balloons in a balloons in a box and took the boxes to our parents house.  When they opened the box, the balloons came out and the gender of the baby was revealed.  My parents (especially my dad) couldn't believe I kept it a secret from my mom.  

Something funny that day was that after we got the balloons, Jeremy went home (while I did some other shopping) and my mom was talking to him and said I think it's a boy:-)  A few hours later she found out she was wrong:-)

People keep saying "Aren't you happy you are having a girl?  Now you have one of each."  Jeremy and I honestly didn't care what the gender of this baby was.  We just wanted to make sure the baby was healthy.  I was lucky to grow up with brothers and sisters and find the relationships between all my siblings to be special.

Halloween 2013

our cute little dinosaur and doggie

We started celebrating Halloween on the 30th by visiting Jeremy's grandparents.  After I had bought Hunter's costume, my mom ran across a black dog costume so we decided to have Hunter wear that one for his visit.

Jeremy and the Black Dog

The ears kept getting in Hunter's face and he thought it was pretty funny.

Hunter with Grandpa Bob

Hunter with Grandpa Peggy

On Halloween, we stopped over at my parents for an hour or so.  Hunter was able to see his and Great-Grandma.  I don't have any pictures of Cole but he was there too;-)

Wes the train conductor and Hunter the dinosaur

My mom had got the boys these hats.  Hunter loves his and I will catch him playing with it on.

Then we went to Jeremy's parents and Hunter was able to go trick-or-treating with his other cousins.  Hunter had fun going up the the different houses, though he would want to go inside if he could see a dog in the background.  He did a great job of taking one piece of candy when a candy bowl was offered to him.  And of course if the house had a basketball goal he would have to "shoot" some baskets before moving on to the next house.  

Hunter at G-ma and Papa's house

Captain Wyatt, Hunter, Nora as Snow White and Cally at Cinderella 

bad pic but he is all about a basketball goal!

Our last stop was at our neighbors house.  Hunter rang the doorbell and waited for the door to open and as it opened a person in an Easter Bunny suit jumped out from behind the door.  Hunter quickly dropped his candy bag and waved to the bunny as he backed up into me and put his arms around me.  Then the person in the bunny suit (neighbors son) took his head off and said "oh-no it's Hunter".  He felt bad but it was pretty funny.  We went into their house to visit and it didn't take Hunter long to forget about the bunny.  Hunter loves our neighbors dogs and played with them pretty much the whole time we were there.  

Jeremy and his little helper

The other day when Jeremy was mowing Hunter decided to help him out with his mower.  Hunter looked so cute trying to mow like his daddy and of course Bow wasn't too far behind Hunter.