i love surprises

I meant to post this a while ago, but one day randomly my mom walked down the stairs and says "You have a surprise..." I turn around to see her holding these flowers. I was seriously so confused as to who they were from.

They were from my dadddy :) Now this was a HUGE surprise. Of course I know my Dad loves me and he tells me he does, but for him to do something like this was monumental :) It was the most touching thing to me and I needed it that day. I love you dad!

the big 2!!

I'm so behind on blogging, but that's alright.
Our little monkey is now 2 YEARS OLD! It's so crazy. Every day he seems to get bigger, smarter, faster, and naughtier. Ok, oK, He's actually a pretty good little boy, but he has his days, oh he has his days... :) His birthday was November 23rd. Thanksgiving night we were planning on having a huge celebration for all the birthdays in my Wood family that were that week, so we did all his cake and presents then. I let him open one present that morning and that night I picked up a doughnut so he could blow out candles on his real birthday.

We started out the day by wanting to go to this bounce house especially for kids called Monkey something and come to find out it was out of business :( I was so excited for Warren to play there, so it was sad finding that out. We opted for McDonald's play place. Definitely not the next best thing but the next closest thing. We were on a time crunch for getting home for naps and didn't have time to drive else where. I hadn't been there in who knows how long and it will probably be who knows how long before going back, but I do love me some McFlurry;)  The kids (Warren and Shanae's oldest two) had fun, and Warren got to experience his first happy meal. He was pretty happy about it and never smiled for the camera because his mouth was always full :) 

 

It was so fun watching him blow out the candles, he loved it and was so pleased with himself as you can tell in the last pic :)

  
And this year he got the memo that you're supposed to go face first in your birthday cake and dig in! 

Happy 2 years my little man! You never cease to amaze me!

blogger trouble

anyone else not able to ever go to anyone's blogspot? I can get on for about 5 minutes then it doesn't let me look at anything blogspot related. so it may be a while that i even try to blog. (nothing new though, right? :) )

picnic at the lake

A few months ago we went up to Tibble Fork to have a little FHE picnic. It didn't last long, Warren just wanted to jump in the water and it wasn't that warm out, so he started having a little break down and we went home soon after :) It was a fun little night out with our little family, though.

 

His eyes are half closed in the shot with seth, hence the funny look. 

corn picking

one of the MANY great things about growing up out in the country is being able to go pick your own produce for dinner :) Our first night home, we went out with grandpa and picked some corn.

horseys

On Sunday afternoons we like to go on a little walk to go see the horseys. Warren loves seeing them and wants to get in there with and ride them :) Someday he'll get a chance to ride a horse, but for now he rides on daddy's shoulders.

They spotted a plane

 kisses and hugs for daddy's head :)

 holding mommy and daddy's hand while walking home.

friday night fun!

Last Friday we went to Cornbelly's with some friends from our ward. It was such a fun little place for the little kidlets :) We of course got pictures on the big rocking chair. Warren wasn't too thrilled getting his picture with his momma and daddy. I think they both loved the bounce houses and the big bounce pad things the best.

They both were fans of the tire horsey swings.

Kelsi was loving the little slide.

This was one thing I wish I could have done. It looked so fun! But I opted out, didn't think it would be too good with the pregnant belly going on, bouncing up and down.

we went on the cow train ride

Duck races! 

 We tired the little ones out pretty good. Warren was ready to zonk out right when we got home. 

fall mini sessions

If you're interested:) p.s. I'm going home to WA in a week and then to AZ the 20-22nd of Oct.

nursery redo sneak peak

I had two shots left on a roll so I decided to take some "partially done" shots of the nursery redo. Warrens room all to himself looked like this. Since they'll be in the same room, I wanted to repaint to something more gender neutral, but that I could still get in my cute girly fix and have his side still be boy. I've got a lot more that I'm planning on doing, so here are just two glimpses of some finished things I've put up already. Hopefully sometime before she gets here it will be done :)

Have I ever said how much I love pinterest? I got the room color, and all these ideas that I made from off there. Except for Warrens side. Those came straight from Hobby Lobby :) When it's all done I'm gonna do close ups of the birdies and the mobile. Warren still sleeps in the crib until I get the guts to train him to his big boy bed, and so the mobile is moved much higher so he doesn't rip it apart.

no motivation

 

* I apologize how unorganized this looks. I can't get it right and I'm done trying :) *


This poor little blog is getting neglected worse and worse. I really just don't have motivation too anymore, which is sad because it's really the only form of journal I have going right now, which is even more sad. I really think I just hate how they have this laid out. I can't ever get the pictures how I want them.

Well anyway.... I finally downloaded all of my pictures off of my digital, which was a lot. I don't download quite as often since switching to film. So here's a smorgasbord of what's been happening. Mainly warren, and I might be able to find a few with Seth or I in them too ;)

I can't believe I'm about to say this in public, but I'm ready for Fall, I think I'm over summer. *GASP* I never in my life thought I would say that. My reasoning being, I can't really sit outside and watch Warren play without being in a pool, it's just too darn hot. So we would stay inside most days unless we went to the pool. If we went to a park we would have to go early enough that it didn't start getting too hot. So needless to say I'm kind of enjoying the cooler weather coming so that we can be outside all day if we wanted. Don't get me wrong, I didn't say I'm excited for Winter, because I'm not. (Once again we'll be cooped up inside) I'm excited for the next month. Then I'll be ready for Spring and Summer again :)

Seth teaching warren how to golf

warren's 2nd haircut. i was pretty depressed with how short she cut it.

 

 I have no idea how he got his first black eye. He did do a handspring off our bed that morning and ran into the side of the couch....

he wouldn't sit still, so hence the death grip on his face. and the yummy green smoothie remnants.

I look sickly but this is one of the only pictures from these last few months of Seth and I, ha. (Roasting dogs and smores with the Fraughtons. )

And I got a hair cut too! I'm actually really liking it being short. I wasn't even planning on cutting it until looking at pinterest one day. I was pretty positive I was going to cry when I got home. But I don't really miss my long hair.