You know you're a bad blogger when...

You go over a month without posting!! Yikes! I am forever going to be haunted by the missing October 2010 in my Blog Archive! LOL

So, the good news is that although my blogging had come to somewhat of a halt, life continued on and I have a ton of pictures to post! I'm going to skip the pictures from our Coast trip because that's a little overwhelming right now and instead get back to our everyday kind of stuff. We had two major events in October, Cole's birthday and Halloween. Oh, and our 8th year anniversary but that kind of takes a back seat to Cole's birthday these days.... sad! lol

And now, without further ado... here are the photos:

Here is proof that Cole is not as big of baby as his mom. He loves playing with Kyle and Erin's two dogs. He runs around the backyard with them and shouts directions at them. Mostly they just ignore him!

We were trying to get a picture of Kyle with the two babies, and Cole decided to peek his little head around and sneak into the shot. This photo cracks me up! I mean, how cute is that little face!?!

We took the boys to a Mariner's game. It was a disaster with both of them and we ended up leaving early but oh well, the tickets were free.

This boy loves to play and be silly!

I just can't believe how big my little baby is getting. He still seems so brand new to me and I really feel like I am still trying to figure out this whole two kids thing. Blake loves being on his tummy and rolling around. I really have to make sure that there aren't any of Cole's toys around him because he will roll his way over to them to put them in his mouth!

We also busted out the jumper for him and as you can see he loves it!


This is Cole and his "Patrick" who just so happens to be a girl. Don't ask me why, but Cole insists that Patrick is a girl and refers to it as "she" and "her". Silly kid!

And now.... the birthday!

My big boy is 3! It's crazy how big he is getting. He loves to read books and play pretend. He has a huge imagination. He has an invisible dog named Sparky, he pretends the couch is boat and sails it to Kennewick, he runs races around our house and declares himself the winner and asks me for a gold medal. He loves making up stories and coloring pictures (which mainly consist of snakes because he can draw a pretty mean straight line). His favorite color is blue and he likes to remind me daily. He is such a chatter and comes up with the funniest things. He loves to cuddle his mommy, play with his daddy, and kiss on his brother! He seriously is so much fun to have around, even on his worst days!

Cole woke up on his birthday with a room for of balloons and a brand new play room full of presents! He loved opening his presents, of course!

My parents bought Cole a train table. We set it up the night before and covered it with a sheet. Surprisingly he didn't even notice the sheet in the morning and so we were able to wait until my parents got in town to reveal it. It's pretty sweet when it's all set up, but of course Cole would rather have the tracks on the floor and all the pieces lined up on the futon soooo I've stowed away a lot of the pieces for now and the table is usually bare. lol

We also had a little birthday party for him in Kennewick the following weekend:

Blowing out his birthday candles!


Erin came to Kennewick for a day to see us while we were in town. It was fun to have all the grand kids together and I was able to get this shot of my parents with the three of them!

This little boy always has that tongue out, especially when he is happy!

Chubbers!

There's that tongue again! He is getting so dang big!


::::Halloween::::

I put off getting a costume for Cole waaay too long and ended up having to kind of scramble to find one for him. He had mentioned he wanted to be a ghost so I went to a Halloween store, bought a ghost costume, cut the bottom and the sleeves to fit him, threw out the mask and painted his face to match. Not the best costume ever but oh well, he liked it.

And here's my little monkey!

My two boys! I couldn't get a good picture because Blake fell over once on accident and after seeing that, Cole decided it was funny and started trying to push Blake over. That kid, seriously!

Cole fell asleep on the way to the mall for Trick-or-Treating!

He's just so dang cute!

Every monkey needs a banana!

Trick-or Treat!!!

Enjoying the spoils of the day!


Whew! And that's it! See you again soon... hopefully sooner than a month ;)