Lex 2 Months

Dear Lex,

You have gotten so big so fast.  We love your big cheeks and leg rolls.  You are such a hungry hungry caterpillar, you always want to eat when you are awake.  That means I am either feeding you or tucking you in to nap. About halfway through this month, your naps stopped happening so much and they got shorter.  You are awake for some of the day now.  This means I don't get anything done chore wise, making our home the messiest yet.

At your 2 Month appointment you weighed 13 pounds 3 ounces.  your height was 23 inches and your head was 16 inches around.  

How did we get such a cute baby?  We love you so much.

I can almost always get you to smile, unless you are ready for bed.

You are the little brother and I am sure you will be spoiled.

You are in 0-3 month clothes but they fit snug and are getting short.

You know your mom, I love all your attention.

You can hold your head up, as you always have been able to do.  You have much more control on your head movement now.

You love to suck your fist and make such a loud noise while doing it.

You love when people help you stand and sit up.

Tummy time and laying on your back are some of your favorite things.

We sure love this little grin.

You are talking more and even coo.

You sleep better when its noisy, and sometimes if you are so tired you wont sleep.  Laying you down while I vacuum does the trick. 

You were blessed the end of your 2nd month!  

You are getting big, and less blowouts happen, so less laundry.

You are handsome and very well behaved...and like your siblings you love car rides.

Lex thanks for coming to our home to stay!  I love watching you grow...and it's going by mighty fast.

Halloween 2014

This year we actually dressed up for the Pincock family reunion. And we even won some candy for our outfits. I saw this idea in Pinterest and had to do it. Only problem ended up being able to keep makeup on my month old :). He kept rubbing it off :)

I used iron on adhesive and Kade cut up circles while I ironed them on. They slowly fell off, but did the trick.  I ended up using a mad scientist wig because it was cheap. Then I used a can of hairspray dye for the black. It turned out great. 

We ended up going trick or treating for a half hour. It was warm and fun, but we were carrying Lex, so we kept it short.  Next year we will do it longer. The kids got tonz of candy for the shirt trip, a king sized candy bar even.  I was surprised!

Love my kids,

Happy Halloween!

My mustache of a family

Drake got a mustache out of a vending machine. Look how cute everyone is.

Oh, so handsome! I love me a man with some facial hair. :)

These kids make me laugh and melt my heart. 

Hunting 10.22.14

This week we ate the last of Kade's deer from last year :(  And surprisingly it is all about how you cook it, because I enjoyed it, and I didn't think I would.

Kade gets a random day off every week along with Sundays, he normally only knows the week of what day he has off.  The last three weeks it has been consistently Wednesdays.  Deer season ends this week, and so he wanted to try and get one.  And with last years meat gone, I was really hoping he would get one.

Being a Wednesday and not having a lot of time in advance, nobody could go with him.  I will not allow him to go alone, I know of too many hunting accidents.  He bravely asked me to come :)  I say bravely because that means me and 3 kids.

Packed up and ready to HUNT!

We are such lucky people that it was super foggy!  When we got up in the mountains I sadly realized we wouldn't be getting our deer this year. :(  Our fault for not trying sooner.
We spent most of the morning watching, waiting, but the fog didn't clear.  On the way back, I spotted a moose, and a 6 point elk.  I guess I can spot anything BUT a deer.

The elk was too far away to see with my camera phone, but he was just laying there begging to be shot!  We watched him for a good 10 minutes before Kade got out of the truck to make sure he wasn't dead.


No luck, but from what we hear, people haven't been seeing a lot of deer.  We will hope for better luck with elk or something, we need to stock our freezer.

Our cute realtree camo hats, I reeeealy hate the way I look in mine, but it is warm.

Yes it is blurry, but so cute.

Lex had to show off his camo as well...sadly the other kids didn't get their picture taken.  

This weekends project 10.11.14

First off happy birthday to beautiful Emma, you are such a sweet and fun girl. I was thinking of you all day. I can always remember your birthday because I was baptized on this day 17 years ago. CRAZY, how time flys.

I have been looking at our front room wall for a while. I was really unsure what I wanted to do with it. Our tv cabinet although I love it is small and I wanted more decorating options. 

This was the previous setup when we lived here before...I wanted to be able to hang more decorations.

SOOOO.....I found some great inspiration on Pinterest and even got Kade to tell me what he wanted/liked. Let's face it, he did the majority of the work! He is pretty handy and sweet to boot!

Here was my inspirations. 

http://lifethrualinds.blogspot.com/2011/01/diy-living-room-media-shelves.html

Kade was a huge fan of the chains so those had to be included in our shelves. 

This was what we planned, plus some chains. I however didn't love it. After we looked around some more we found this idea 

http://besimplyorganized.blogspot.com/2014/07/simple-diy-floating-shelves-tutorial.html

and came up with adding more wood 1x4s to the front and sides giving it a more floating shelves look. 

I was in love!  I would have been fine leaving them this way but....

We still wanted to add chains not just to stabilize these shelves but to add some character. 

My husband was brilliant and nailed a boarded underneath to hide the router. It's a little shelf on the left where the grey cord hangs out. 

We ran our tv coards through the wall a couple years ago. So the DVD player is the only coards that sticks out. And I put the ottomans in front to make it less obvious. 

I'm so excited and so happy with how it turned out!!!! Now for more decorating!