Swoon.....

 

Calling All Super Heros!

We had a wild and wooly time on Saturday at Chase's 5th birthday party. 

We decided to try a bouncer rental and low and behold, it was a ton of fun and HUGE.  Spiderman was looking right into our second story dining room window and it was a little creepy : )

Five Years Old

I can't help it.  I am one of those Mama's who wants to cry because my baby has hit one of those big milestone birthdays.  He is five years old today, no longer a little guy and according to him, he is a big kid now.  How can this be?  He really is getting so much bigger both physically and in thought.  Sometimes he comes up with the craziest questions or notices things as we are driving that I would have never spotted.  Our Chase has a good heart and I can easily say he is a very kind and thoughtful person. 

For the memory book.....At five years old, Chase loves super heroes, Scooby Doo, dinosaurs and Transformers.  As you can tell from the picture, he is sticking with his plan of being a cowboy when he gets a little older and he can't wait to drive the sweet Bronco Grandpa Jim has given him.  His favorite food is pizza, make that Meat Lovers Pizza, because that is what he and Daddy like best.  Chase enjoys riding his bike and scooter, playing games and putting puzzles together.  He is a big fan of the garden and especially harvesting all the pumpkins we planted this year.  He has lots of friends at school, but his favorite playmates of all besides his brother are his cousins.  He loves them all to pieces.

Happy Birthday Buddy!  We love you sooooooooo much!

Fun Fall Day

Last Saturday morning we headed to Ellensburg for a full day of Fall fun.  We

grabbed Grandma Karen and all the cousins and headed to Andrerson Farm,

 soccer games and finally Dusty's Pumpkin Patch.  It was a really fun day.

Max LOVED the straw maze and it was practically impossible to drag him away
from it to try other fun activities.  I think he must have gone through the maze 30+ times.

One of my personal favorites was the bobbing for doughnuts at Anderson Farm. 

 It was hilarious to see the kids trying to grab the doughnuts with no hands.

 Don't be alarmed, this is just Chase, not a real tiger. 

We ended the day at Dusty's Pumpkin Patch and guess what Max loved....the corn maze.  He whipped through that maze through every twist and turn and even made his own path a couple of times.  Honestly, I was pooped by that time in the day, but Max wasn't and just when I saw the light at the exit of the maze and thought phew, Max wheeled around and dove back in all the way back to then entrance. 

Racing Day

Every time we go to Grandma and Grandpa's house we pass the Yakima Speedway and we have always talked about wanting to go.  We finally did it and it was so much fun and really really loud.  Max came with us for a while too, but he got sleepy and with all the noise, I took him to go cuddle with Grandpa Jim for a while.  Chase loved the race thanks to his cool red ear muffs.  We will definitely be going back again next year.

Father's Day

Ok, I know this is months late, but I just did a camera dump

and found a bunch of cute stuff.  Enjoy!

This guy....

melts my heart

Happy Fall

How to make a pumpkin pie from scratch

1- you get some sugar pumpkin seeds and plant them in a bit of earth
2- they grow like crazy
3- pick them when they are bright orange
4- they will look like this
5- gut 'em and roast 'em
6- put the pumpkin meat in the blender
7- get someone highly trained to turn it on
8- stir pumpkin, eggs and lots of stuff together
9- add these, it will taste really good
10- roll out the pie crust nice and thin
11- pour the pumpkin goodness in
12- make it pretty
13- tah dah!
14- slide it into the oven
15- yah baby!
16- enjoy!!

A special thank you to Dan who did almost all the work here and didn't make it into a single shot :)

One warning....beware of the white nose. This can happen to the best of bakers ; )