October

My babies had their 3rd birthday party!  They are apparently working on finding their perfect smiles at the moment.  I can't believe my babies are 3!

It was time for the cribs to go.  But it just so happened that one crib was sold before the other one.  Nap time and night time got a little cozy for these two for a couple of nights.

For their birthday Casey & I got them some new mattresses.  They LOVED them.  Lexi put herself down for naptime one afternoon and she kept her boots and "glubs" on.

After getting used to the new mattresses, we got them some bed frames.  The twin mattresses that we bought didn't fit the frames!!  They were way to long!  Luckily we were able to give Taylor & Rylee the new mattresses and their old ones fit into the bed frames.  Luke only fell out once.

Taylor & Caleb are best friends most of the time.  They seem to have such a sweet bond.

I got a wild hair one day and decided I wanted to paint my barstools.  Well....needless to say I had a lot of people that wanted to help me out.  They didn't work out though :(  The paint chips off like crazy.  I hate when projects don't work out.  Oh well though.  Lesson learned.

I knew my kids were playing with the neighbors one day and it had started raining.  So I peeked out the window to see whose house they were going to take refuge in - but they were in John's hunting boat.  Except - it was their pirate ship.  Adorable!

Keeping toddlers entertained without using a TV or a tablet is a full time job.

This particular day we were practicing on a little hand/eye coordination by putting change into the piggy banks.  They loved their 'moneys!"

Casey let Rylee assist in moving the lawn one evening.

I put these curlers in Lexi's hair one night after her bath.  She always wants them in her hair when I do her sisters, but I don't have enough of them.  But she couldn't fall asleep with them in her hair, so we didn't even get the after picture.  We'll have to try again another time.

These masks were so cute!  They were at Michaels and I couldn't pass them up.  I baby sit my friends girls a couple days/week and they all had a blast coloring them one day after school.

It was crazy sock day at school.  I let Taylor & Rylee raid my sock drawer to find some fun ones.  Alexa wanted to play too...she work her gigantic socks all day long.

Casey's annual deer hunting plans were a bust.  He didn't draw out for the hunt!  He was so disappointed.  But - he doesn't stay down long.  He was getting everyone on board to try for an elk hunt instead.  Casey, his brother, Colby and his daughter Kaetlyn were the big hunters.  Their week started out so beautiful!

Caleb even got to go stay for a couple of nights.  And this cutie has perfected his marshmallow toasting.  And, obviously was HATING the flash of the camera.

 By the end of the week - this was their hunting area.  Everything looks so pretty covered with freshly fallen snow.  No one was successful this year in the hunt - but what's awesome about that is there is several more hunting trips in the future.