Nathan's First Sucker

In November Nathan and I took a trip to San Diego. We had a great time seeing family, going to the Wild Animal Park and enjoying the warm weather. But I think Nathan's favorite activity was trying out his new big sucker that grandma bought him. It was quite entertaining to watch. I have never seen anyone enjoy a sucker as much as he did. He of course was a sticky mess after but it was worth it. He even thought it was fun to stick it on his forehead.

What a funny little guy!

What a face!

Halloween

Yeeeh Haaaw!! Nathan had a great first Halloween. His cowboy costume turned out great. Thanks to Cindy for letting us borrow the boots. Howdy! Giddy Up!! Nathan was ready for his first Trunk or Treat. The whole Moehle family at Trunk or Treat.My Cowboys.

I was impressed with Nathan being able to keep his hat on most of the time. However, his boots were another story. He kept kicking them off.Nathan and his buddy Adam. Adam sure made a cute horse. (Notice Nathan's boot missing)Caught red handed in the candy. Even though Nathan doesn't eat candy he managed to still fill his trick or treat bucket.Nathan's first experience with a sucker. He was eating the paper off so we unwrapped it for him and boy did he like it. It did make me a little nervous so he didn't get to suck on it for very long. Our good friends the Kings were in town for Halloween and we had a blast seeing them.
Lisa arrived just in time to join us for "Witches Night Out" at Gardner Village. We had a great time dancing, eating, shopping and cackling for coupons. We all enjoyed our night out together. While the Kings were here they got to stay with us and Nathan had so much fun with Preston. He loved watching him play and followed him all over the house. They became real buddies. Even pajama buddies. Lisa and I tend to think alike and when both our boys ended up in the same pjs we just had to laugh.Mommy's Little Monster We took Nathan out on Halloween just around our neighborhood. He enjoyed seeing his neighbors and got some cool treats. His favorite was a pumpkin straw from our friend Julie.


Our Frankenstein pumpkin. We grew 8 pumpkins in our garden and didn't end up carving any of them. But we did create this guy out of our one green pumpkin.
We hope you enjoyed your Halloween.

Nathan's 9 Month Pictures

Here are Nathan's newest professional pictures. He is growing so fast!!!

Crawling Machine

Nathan has mastered the crawling thing and we are having so much fun! It is one of my favorite things he can do so far. In the video you will also notice his funny little kicks he does on his tummy before he takes off.

So happy to be mobile.

Now that Nathan can crawl around Zoey our dog has become his new buddy. He loves following Zoey around the house and Zoey loves having someone to play with. She is such a good dog for Nathan and they have so much fun together.

Crawling has also made getting things done a little more difficult. When I do laundry Nathan has to sit in the basket otherwise he is into everything he shouldn't be in the laundry room (like the furnace). But he doesn't look like he minds.

Nathan is also learning how to pull himself up on things. He recently discovered the dishwasher. Now if we can just teach him how to load the dishes.

More Yard Work

After posting the sod pictures Ryan thought we should post our gravel project which we took on clear back in June. We had 8 tons of gravel delivered and my hard working man Ryan moved it all into the backyard. Our backyard is huge so we didn't want to put just sod back there. Here are some pictures. 8 tons of rock being dumped in our driveway.
Ryan showing the pile whose boss.
We had some friends help but Ryan did about 80% of it all by himself. Didn't I say he was a hard worker?
The final results!! It looked great. You can also see our tiny garden just getting started.
The fire pit area turned out really nice too. Ryan also built the benches. Is he amazing or what? Smores anyone?

Our Backyard is Finally Almost Finished!!

After waiting 4 years we finally have a backyard. Our house needed a bit of work when we first bought it and the backyard has been at the bottom of our list. It has taken a really long time to get it where it is today but it is beautiful as you will see. This was our backyard the day we moved in. Lovely I know. Our backyard had a greenhouse, a chicken coop, a beaten down sun room, weird sprinklers, lots of weeds and we won't even talk about the crazy "bomb shelter" (really it is a root cellar). We have since ripped down the greenhouse and chicken coop. The sun room is still standing but that will disappear some day. Thankfully Ryan's dad came to help us on sod day. Here they are getting the dirt ready for grass. I can't tell you how many times we have weeded and tilled this backyard. It felt good to actually have some grass coming. Of course Nathan did not want to miss all of the excitement.Our sod being delivered. Our street has been crazy. They are putting in new water pipes hence all of the heavy machinery but our sod guy maneuvered through them like a pro. After only the first pallet, Ryan is thinking about how much work this is going to be. I think he is trying to will it into the backyardHere we are. All four and half pallets. Now we just have to haul all 10,00 lbs back to the backyard and lay it out. Easy enough right? The fun has begun. Nathan discovering the first rows of his new backyard grass for the first time. While Nathan was awake we had watering duty (the grass and the boys). When Nathan went down for his afternoon nap I had the chance to put my time in laying sod. It was a lot of work and those strips of grass are a lot heavier than they look. Almost there. Taking a quick break before we finish the last of it.
And finally we finished!! It is such a beautiful sight. We were all so glad to have it done and couldn't believe the difference.

We still have a little more work to do before the backyard is finished but. The sun room has to go and we also have a fire pit area that we need to put ground cover down but in the meantime we will enjoy our lovely lawn.

Craft Night

Last week I hosted my first craft night with my friends. We all made these fun Halloween decorations. They turned out really cute and we had a great time crafting together. Ryan played a big part in it too. He cut out all of the wood for everyone and drilled the final holes to finish it off. We were so glad that it was a success and it was a lot of fun to get creative. I think we should go into business (not likely). (: Thanks to everyone who came. It was a blast!!