We're Moving

On this our commemorative 200th post I would like to announce that our blog is moving to 

congergationtwo.blogspot.com

Google and Picas have cut me off on photo storage space so we are moving to a new site. Please follow us over there.

I left my cord in Connecticut

I left my computer cord in Connecticut and with all the craziness of my sister having this beautiful baby girl

I just barely got it back so now I can blog once again. I loved our trip to see everyone. I absolutely love my family. My parents are so relaxing to be with, fun to talk with and just full of love. My mom and I got some sewing projects done. And my sister and husband are great examples in parenting with calm colectiveness. My sis had a rough go with the birth of her sweet baby and things still aren't quite settled as to my sister's health but we are happy that for now at least she is alright and we are extremely happy that this little sweetheart, who doctors kept saying didn't have a chance, is here and healthy.

So here is our life since Halloween
Kacen got to dress up twice, once in CT as a tiger and once at home as an alligator.

At my sister's ward trunk-or-treat Kace was so scared of the teenage boys who had gruesome costumes. My son who will wonder off with any stranger and explore everywhere stayed glued to me the entire time out of terror.

 Emily didn't want to dress up for the trunk or treat and only got ready when she was allowed to wear my boots, so cute.

 We asked them to hold hands so we could take a picture but if you haven't noticed from the two previous photos, Kacen is a boy on the go.

I made some cute bat decorations for the door and then Perry and Valarie really amped it up with scary loud noises and music and a dark candle lit house and walk way.

Back at home we had to hit up Chipotle on Halloween for $2 burritos if you were in costume and Kacen freaked out because of some of the costumes, most especially a scary faced gorilla one. He went trick or treating in our neighborhood and Ky, ever health conscience, only wanted him to go to eight houses and ditched us cuz he got cold. We went to a couple of more without him and still haven't even eaten all of Kacen's candy.

Andie girl was cute little pumpkin that stayed home for trick or treating and only wore the costume for this picture, haha.

Well we saved the candy and give it to him on the rare occasion that he goes potty in the toilet. Or on nights when I want to be nice like tonight. And about every other day when I want to mega cookie: two balls of homemade frozen chocolate chip cookie dough with half a mini candy bar smashed in the middle and bake, I've tried snickers, almond joy and reeses all good.

Andie has been up to this lately, sticking out her tongue.
Oh and today she seriously laughed at me because I was being funny! It is about dang time she does it for her daddy all the time.

Ah the faces of Andie, cutie, cute, cute

 She does pretty good with tummy time.

Kacen was dying to get in on the photo shoot action.

He doesn't really like Andie, it is a shame. The other day she was on the table just talking, Kacen walked up and tried to kick her feet but missed by two feet cuz he was on the ground. So he climbs up onto the table, grabs her foot and holds it while he kicks it. Aaaannnnddd off to time out he went.
I don't get it, the dislike towards a tiny body that does next to nothing, well except take some of mommy and daddy's attention. We are really trying to work on his kindness towards her.  Any tips are welcome.

And lastly the other day I made a Birthday cake for my mother-in-law. I love my in-laws they are so helpful, kind, generous and fun. Unfortunately Valarie was sick on her birthday but she did eat some cake. Chocolate cake with peanut butter antique roses frosting.

 If you made it all this way good job that was a long post.

Andie Fingers

Today Andie and I spent five uninterrupted minutes just sitting together. No TV, no crazy brother, no phone, no daddy, no anything. Just me watching her chew on her fingers. Learning how to put one in, then two, then three, then the whole fist and starting again on just one finger. I love Andie girl. Today was a lazy rainy day, the mall, just hanging out at grandmas while she was at work, burritos, a card table fort and yeah blogging.

The Harbor and the Gym

Yesterday took us to Mount Desert Island to visit Bar Harbor, or as the locals would say Baa Haa Baa. It is a huge tourist town off the coast of main. We saw Santa Clause but thought it would be totally rude to take a picture because he isn't at his prime yet, it will be another three months til he is really ready to show his colors.

 Kacen and His Grandpa Murphy headed to the shore front

 Family photo

 We drove halfway around the Island and found this small little pier where the fishermen were bringing in the lobster cages.

 While Ky was looking back through the photos he saw this one and said, in reference to where I was looking, "Fishermen butts drive me nuts."

 I am standing on this tiny little post that sticks up about 15 feet out of the water.

 My parents live in a college town and the house they are renting has this huge profile on their window covering. Any guesses who this is?

 Today we went to see Steven Kings house. It is sort of weird to be taking a picture in front of a person's house, but here it is. Actually I had no idea who Steven Kings was, well I knew he was famous but had no idea what books he wrote of movies he influenced. But I have learned "It" was one of his ideas.

 My mom had a meeting at her church so we went and hung out in the gym. We played some Bball and then did some wheelchair races and tricks and stuff.

 Kacen was pushing us, it was a wittle scarewee

Then it was home for Friday night pizza night!

Two Months

Well our Andie girl is getting bigger and bigger I wish I could have better photo skills but this is what we got. Haha her one month is so not flattering of her, but whatev. She is still the cutest thing ever. PS this is getting up late she is actually 12 weeks today so her three month will be up soon.

Milestones: Smiles lots and lots, laughed three time while falling asleep and once at her brother. She loves to stare at her fist. She has quite a happy disposition. And she does sleep well, usually about a seven hour stretch each night then eats and goes back down for 3 more hours.

We love our Andie Bear! 

Going to Grandma's

Monday we left on a week long trip up to Maine to see my parents. The first leg of our trip was from PA to Connecticut. The trip was rather uneventful, we stopped at Cici's for dinner and saw this rainbow.

 We stayed the night at my sister's house and left early in the morning. Emily, my neice, and Kacen both love having a friend to play with it is so fun. But we left while Em was at school and when she got home my sister said that she searched the house and when she couldn't find us she had a full on meltdown.

We stopped at the Hamptons, posh, to check out the Ocean. It was really blustery and cold and Kacen was quite leery of the loud water crashing on the shore. But Ky and I just loved seeing the ocean it makes up happy.

 We finally made it to Maine, and stopped at my moms work to see here then went to their house and got the nasty feeling of car ridding washed off.

Today we went to see the frog crossing sign, and some of the local sites.

 Andie was super cute in her car seat after being changed from two blowouts in a three hour period.

 And for dinner we had lobster! Eh I guess I just don't have the taste for it. It made me sick to see them live then to have to break them up and see all the nasty innards eh, it wasn't for me but Ky and Dad loved that I was really good at pulling it apart for them, gotta love the food network. 

 

But the saddest part was how scared Kacen was of the lobsters, he was hysterical. Sorry the video won't work of the lobster meltdown

Tomorrow we are off to Acadia National Park.

Our Weekend at a Glance

Friday was Kyle's Birthday! We celebrated with a date to Washington DC to visit the LDS temple there. Then we went to dinner with some surprised guests, though Kyle blew the surprise. I had arranged for Henry and Amber to meet us at the restaurant earlier in the week and on our way to DC Ky said, "Oh you should quickly text or call Henry and invite him to dinner." I didn't want to blow the cover so I pretended to send a text then pretended to get one that said they couldn't make it. So when we got to the delicious Mexican place Ky saw Henry and Amber and said, "Oh you made it after all." He wasn't even surprised because he just thought they made it from the text I sent them.

Saturday we went to Dutch Wonderland, courtesy of the Whitlocks (thank you!) with the kids. It was pretty fun, well you know as fun as taking a two year-old who doesn't understand lines and waiting, who still needs a nap and who has a ton of energy to a huge public place is.

 The logs ride

 This flying ride looked like a ton of fun, Kace was really excited but please note, there are no safety straps on the ride just that cage, that Kacen could probably squeeze through. So when he didn't really want to stay on his stomach while the ride was loading I was happy to take him off and let Ky ride alone.

 This panda ride was much more his level.

 The funnest ride I went on was this twister ride, Ky caught some fun pictures of us.

 Three hours past nap time we were heading home, yay for Dutch Wonderland.

Actually it was pretty fun. And Kacen was good, well relatively. 

Andie was just a sweetie pie 

Sunday was a nice day we went for a long drive. 

Well that was it.