Mischief, influencers, and CHRISTMAS

Yesterday Ryan was standing in his crib and I was laying on the floor with my feet up on the edge. He was tickling my toes and laughing SO hard, so I started recording. 3 seconds after I started the camera, he did a front flip out of the crib!! Luckily he hasn't tried to get out again, but I will forever have that hilarious moment recorded. :) 

That same day, he dumped a half full Costco size bottle of vanilla on the floor and helped himself to a drink of water- with no cup. Currently, he's strutting around half naked. The mischief is for real with this one. 

Let's not forget about our first "poop in the crib" accident. No pictures of that one. You're welcome. 

On a completely unrelated note, I feel like the people I spend time with greatly influences my spirituality. I don't know if I'm just sensitive to bad influences, or if I just need to be more strong willed, but I've been really lucky to live in an AWESOME neighborhood with tons of good influencers. 

My neighbor put together a block party on Friday. It was freezing so the group was small, but it was still really fun! I only took pictures of the bundled babies. :) 

  

Cheeks on cheeks on cheeks. 

For this months girls night we met at Baked Bear. Having mom friends is making all the difference for my sanity. 

I can't stop thinking about Christmas!!! I'm kind of in love with this rocking horse and will mostly likely be getting it for the boys. 

For date night last week we climbed the hill behind our house to catch a good view. Love seeing Ryan being carried by his daddy! 

Last but not least (this post keeps getting longer and longer!) our cameras have officially paid off. We busted some rude crazy speeders that yelled out "how do you like this!" and peeled away as fast as they could in front of our neighbors house. Thank youuuu modern technology! 

 

Chopped hair, smashed fingers, and other happenings

I would love to have long hair, but I just. can't. get past that awkward stage. So I chop it! 

Our Ryan boy is accident prone. We were loading up groceries at Walmart and somehow I completely closed the door (like it clicked shut) on his fingers. It was awful and traumatizing for everyone! They looked broken and we rushed him to instacare next door. They were blue and swollen and there were these GIANT indents where the door was. They did X-rays and by some miracle they weren't broken. The doc said that his bones are still just small and soft enough that they flexed in the door and didn't break. Thank the heavens! Poor buddy. These were the only pictures I could take, hours later when they were just a tiny bit swollen. He healed so fast!!

We met our friends at the park one day. It was cold and windy so we decided to go hang out at Amanda's house down the street. We piled the toddlers in the back seat and drove over there. This picture makes me laugh so hard. It perfectly describes these two. Emery is brave and wild and independent, and Ryan is like wheeeere the heck is my seat?! 

We took the boys to Chubby's Friday evening for a family date night. Ryan got his own kids burger and fries and was in heaven! He was so stoked about his little cup of water. 

On our way home the boys fell asleep so we decided to keep the peace and go for a drive. We ended up on a nice little dirt road and broke out our Western Swing moves. I love this man so much and it was so fun to dance with him again just like we used to! 

 

Summer turned into fall with little warning and suddenly the air is crisp and we're pulling out winter clothes! The highs this week have been in the 50s and 60s. I swear just yesterday I was pouring sweat on our evening walks, now I'm bundling up the babies before we go! 

Hunt turned 4 months old. How did that happen?? He gets sweeter every day. 

Ryan's definitely a mama's boy, but he loves "helping" Jake work. 

Our Sunday trip to grandma and grandpa's house looked something like this. :) 

This weekend is the beginning of conference and lots of other fun things. Can't believe September is almost already over! 

More catching up

Still playing catch up a bit over here!

Jake took Friday off to help me transition Hunter to bottles and then Monday was Labor Day, so we had an extra extra long weekend! On Monday we met Heather at city creek to see if there were any good sales and to let Ryan run and play in the fountains and look at the fish. I love evenings out with the family! I found a really cute outfit, but couldn't quite justify $80 sweat pants, haha! 

Ry played hard with grandma and zonked out on the way home. 

My sweet happy boy. 

One day after nap time Ryan and I shared a bowl of crackers on the floor. I looked away for a minute and when I turned back he had all of them in his hands and was eating them like a sandwich. Cracked me up! This is why I vacuum every day. 

Casey and Logan met us at the Ashton Gardens. It was all fun and games until Ryan ran straight into the fish fond. I had to jump in after him up to my knees and he was soaking wet head to toe! So scary in the moment, but so funny now. I didn't have a dry change of clothes for him so he had to finish the morning in a diaper and dirty pj shirt from that morning that was in my bag. That's the sign of a good time!

Also a sign of a good time. 

Ryan insisted on holding Jake's hand one night on our walk. This was also Hunter's first time in the actual stroller seat instead of his car seat! Where has my baby gone?? 

AND he's rolling back to belly. 

Ryan is starting to show a lot of interest in Hunter. So darn cute. I am so so giddy over watching these two grow up so close together. Ryan loves to put a binky in Hunter's mouth then pop it back out. I'm sure some day Hunter isn't going to be quite so tolerant of this game. :)

These pictures make me laugh so hard. We had David and Rissa over for dinner and Ryan insisted on running around naked. He ended up chilling on this chair and covering his privates so daintily. Crazy kid. 

I was having a rough time with the boys one afternoon and after trying and trying to get them to nap, I gave up and laid Hunter on the rug and plopped Ryan in the bath. They were both instantly happy. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow!

More porch hangs while dad pulls weeds. I have the fun job. :) 

A random picture of my perfect little squish, and my handsome hubby trying on coats for date night. We're a real party over here. 

Tonight we went to Paige's son Bridger's first birthday party. We were an hour late (whoooops!) but made it in time to watch him smash his cake and hang out for a bit. No pictures, but Bridger had no hesitations and went to town on that thing. Then both kids screamed the whole way home. So much fun. 

I think I'm all caught up now, and will try to be better about staying on top of the blog!