Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you all have a wonderful thanksgiving!

We are staying in Fargo and actually cooking for the first time. Gus' parents are coming over to share the holiday with us. Will report back on the edible and inedible items we experience!

Giant stuffed critters

Some of you may recognize one of these giant stuffed animals because I posted a few months back how Griffin spotted the lion in the store and went into a crying spell about the animal having to stay at the store all alone without a family and living in a box...thus we brought him home. I was dreading having this giant thing laying around the house however he is getting lots of love. He got so much love from both boys and Griffin got mad at Ian for always drooling on him that Gramma Kathy decided Ian needed his own. Griffin and Gramma went to pick a new one out and they came home with a bear. Of course initially I thought...as if one giant stuffed ting wasn't enough, thanks gramma! Well, the boys are loving them. Thanks for going against my initial reaction Gram. We love them!

Our little workout machine!

Looks like our working out has sparked some interest in Griffin.

Thanks Gramma!

Grandma made a new stool for the boys' bathroom. Ian tried it out to brush his teeth tonight and it worked great. I have to say way more stable than the previous one!

More Bis pics

Trip to Bismarck

Had a fun but quick weekend in Bismarck. First chance for the boys to see snow this season and they loved it. Grandpa even built a lift for the boys to pull themselves in the sled back up their backyard sledding hill. Mom and I got out for a few hours to shop and Gus and I got our big dinner out. We ate at a place we had never been but heard so much about and it was amazing. So fun to try new places! Thanks again gramma and grandpa--sorry I broke the VCR!

Bad blogger

So I discovered the world of facebook last week...thus this blog has sat unattended (that facebookis addicting). We have actually been a little more boring lately anyway so no big updates but few fun things:

--Ian signs for please, thank you, boy, more, milk and num nums; says hi, ball, bye bye, num num, daddy, mommy, thank you.

--Got a call from Griffin's teacher because he and Tatum in his class have been kissing. They were told to stop but she replied, but we have to...we are getting married.

--Didn't make it to Bismarck for the weekend due to weather but will try again next weekend.

--Ian is teething--STILL!

Like I said, kinda boring but promise to keep it going.

Poor kid

So this daylight savings time is so annoying. Went to pick Griffin up today and when we walked outside he said to me "did you forget about me; why did I have to stay at school all day." Because it was dark out he was thinking we left him there extra late. Then with this sad look on his face he said "mom, can I please stay up for a little while when we get home?" I tried explaining to him that it wasn't actually late but gets dark earlier but I could tell he didn't understand because he said "if I promise to eat a little dinner really fast and take a fast shower can I still stay up a little longer?' Poor thing!

Beautiful day!

Happy Halloween

Made it to the 2nd Annual Balvik Halloween Bash this weekend. Gus was a monk and I was a hippie chic. The group photo includes my employees. What an awesome crew!