Trying to catch up to our Fall

Once again I am playing catch up! Here are the pics taken and the things we have been doing for the last few weeks.

Kambria raking the leaves that fell from one of our trees in one windy morning!


After raking the leaves you have to play in them!!!


Jon sanding the siding to the house getting it ready to prime!


Me scraping the last little bits! The scraping is what has taken the longest! I am so glad we are about done!


Our kids, Audriana, and Emma from next door raking the leaves to play in them again.

It was a very cold day working outside on the house! This is how we tried to keep a little warm!

This is one of my favorite facial expressions that Eli makes! :)

Emma and Kambria trying to get warm by the fire!

For dinner we roasted hot dogs over the fire and then made smores for desert!

A couple days later Kambria and Emma + Madeleine and Kaden played in the leaves again! :) This time Kambria was buried in them!

Oh yeah! ....and Eli too! :)

Fun kids!

Kambria takes any opportunity to make an "angel" wherever she can. This time she is making a "leaf angel"

On Friday, the 16th, we went to our annual Greenbluff field trip with Grandma Pooh, Grandpa Mike, Auntie Adie, and all the kids from the daycare and who ever wants to go with us.

Kambria is telling me that there is "something gross" on the pumpkin. Because of the freeze and then quick warm up that we had, a lot of the pumpkins were soft and had gone bad. At least the smaller ones were that way.

Kambria, Danielle, Madeleine, and Eli

Grandpa Mike pushing all the girls in the handcart.

After the pumpkins we headed to the apple orchard to pick our own apples.

Eli entertained himself with some fun sticks! :)

Instead of a sandbox for the kids to play in they had a "pea" box! It was filled with dried peas!

Kambria once again making an angel .....a "pea"angel! :) Danielle thought it looked fun too! :)

News!.....+ the newest "ticker" being added

We are expecting baby #3! As far as I know I am 7 weeks along, but there is a possibility that I might be 11 weeks??? We won't find out for sure for 2 weeks when I will have my first ultrasound! Tonight in family home evening we are going to tell Kambria. She is going to be sooooooo excited!!!! Eli, on the other hand, he won't really understand, but even if he did I don't think he will be as excited. He loves babies and is pretty good with them, but it will be a big shock for him having to share his mommy and daddy! Well, at least we have a little over 7 months to try and prepare him as much as possible! I am excited for our little family to grow again! :)

Kambria's newest accomplishment!

Last week Kambria crossed the monkey bars all by herself! She was so excited!!! She wanted Daddy to go to the park with her all week, but he wasn't able to make it, until Friday when he got off a little early. Although it was very cold, we braved it for a little while so she could show daddy what she can do!

Eli loves his big sister, but he doesn't like it at all when she tries to hold him.


He does however, like when she pushes him on the swing! :)

ha ha! My shadow looks a little freaky!

Kambria's 5 year and Eli's 18month Pics! :)

I am so glad Misty caught pics of Eli smiling! ....or at least they look like smiles! He has such a cute smile and does it often, but of course when we try and take pics of him he decides to get whiny. Kambria was great this time! She cooperated more than she ever has before for pics! :)

Thanks again Misty!! :)

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"Catch-up" and Mustard

I am doing a "catch-up" post yet again! :)

These pics are from the last weekend of August when we went and had dinner with my parents and went swimming at an rv resort in Coeur' d Alene, Labor Day weekend (we went to Silverwood on Saturday and Monday), and the Spokane Interstate Fair about a week and a half ago.


It was fun to try and balance on this log! :) I wish I had a pic of Jon and I trying!

Kambria and Eli walking with Grandma and Grandpa K.

Labor Day Weekend

Saturday we went to Silverwood with Jon's mom, sister, and niece. It was a beautiful day! Not too hot, but warm enough to swim at Boulder Beach!

Kambria jumping a wave!

Grandma Watson and Daddy helping Kambria jump "super high" over the wave! :)

All wet and happy! :)

We forgot our stroller, first time we have done that, so we rented one.

About to start the train ride. We don't usually sit in the open middle car........ you will see why.....

That is a "cheesy" face! :)

Eli putting money in the "robbers" bag. Last year they collected thousands of dollars for the wishing star foundation! :)

These are the "robbers' " cabins and well.........

After the robbers get off the train one of them ends up in the well. Sometimes its the other robber and sometimes its the train conductor, but one of them throws a stick of fake dynamite into the well and makes water explode out of it. ......this is why we don't usually sit in the open middle car of the train!

......but we did on this day! Eli didn't like it so much! LOL!

He was better after the train when we went on the carousel! :)

Eli is watching daddy and Teri and they are going up, and up, and up, and up.......

so is Kambria as they go up, and up, and up, and up..........

......on Panic Plunge! :)

Always a smile after falling from the sky! :)

Monday, Labor Day

Back to Silverwood with Jon's work, Big T Roofing, and some other friends from our ward.....

....this time not such a nice day!!!! It rained......no, it dumped!

But we got this beautiful rainbow out of it! :)

Some of group still braved the weather and went swimming; even Kambria! When I got Kambria dressed and out of her swimming suit I had to put her wet clothes back on her. I wish I would have brought extras! Her towel helped keep her a little warm.

I let Eli ride the airplane ride for the first time! He loved it!!!! He had a big smile on his face the whole time! :)

Great Big Smile! He is getting so big!

Spokane Interstate Fair, Sept. 16th

Kambria loves the kid's maze house! Here she is coming down the slide at the end....

I was trying to get her to smile but instead she kept jumping up and down in excitement! :)

This swing ride came from Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. It was purchased in an auction before he died.

Kambria wanted to ride the Llamas since that is all her cousin Audriana talked about after she went to the fair a few days before.

Eli didn't ride the llamas but was smiling and talking(gibber jabber) as his sister did! :)

The geese were talking...or maybe yelling at my dad! LOL!!!!

What does a cow say Eli? .....it said "moooooo" :)

Eli petting a goat

I think maybe we should have switched Kambria and Eli around! LOL!!! :) Cute anyway though!! :)

They were laughing so hard! Grandma K is helping Eli.

What a fun way to end our summer!!!! It was a great summer and very busy!!!! We didn't get as much done on our house as we should have so now it is time to cram for the next month!!!! We really wanted to go to Valleyfest this weekend but aren't going to be able to since we had so much fun this summer. Time to get to work! Hopefully I will have a post of our newly painted house in the next month!!!