Boys will be boys

Saturday night Luke went head to head with a bowling ball and ended up with 5 stitches! Can you believe it? He isn't even 3 years old and he has had a concussion! He looks pretty rough but the only thing he can think about is showing it to his cousins! He is one tough boy too, I would have been bawling if it was me (I was on the verge already) but he laid on the table while our Dr. sewed him up and he was helping me tell '3 little pigs'. Oh and after wards we were talking about what to look for in a serious concussion and Luke is jumping up and down on the table and saying 'catch me'! I hope this isn't a sign of what is to come! Crazy boy!

Halloween! a little late i know!

Halloween was so much fun this year! Usually Caleb is out hunting so its just me and Luke. This year Caleb decided to head out a day late and stay with us for Halloween! Soooo.....since Caleb was home, he made our costumes! Well we bought most of Lukes and Ryans but Caleb made Luke a 'real' Pirate hat. Then he got going on our costumes, he is so funny, and handy to have around! He really was excited for Halloween this year because he remembers only one time growing up that his family was not hunting and he actually got to go trick or treating, sad huh?

In our neighborhood we have been hit really hard in past years, so I was super prepared this year, I had 15 bags of miniature candy bars, we had 8 kids come! What in the world am I going to do with all this candy!?!?? We only took the boys to a few houses, mostly family....And luke STILL made out like a bandit with candy! Spoiled kid!

What a cute pirate huh?
The inspiration was the veggie tales 'pirates who don't do anything'
(favorite movie of the week)

Ryan was our adorable Bumble Bug.
He had no wings so we can't really call him a bee!

Isn't this awesome! He spray painted a hat and broom for his helmut!

I was cleopatra, Caleb made this one too.

Tonight Luke had way too much energy (what else is new). Ryan was laughing so hard at him for like half an hour and so I finally got the camera out and caught the tail end of it.


Again, this kid has waaayyyy too much energy! Seriously, he and his dad do this for like half an hour, but I think the only reason they stop is because Caleb gets tired of it! Luke is still begging to him to throw him on the couch.

Flavor of the Day

Ok this is so gross, it makes me gag (almost) to even post this but it was too funny not to! Luke usually begs for scrambled eggs ever morning, and I HATE eggs, so i try to get him to want pancakes, so lately he has been asking for pancakes. If I don't make syrup to go on them we usually just eat them with peach jelly (homemade of course), well this morning Luke wanted ketchup on his pancake! I thought maybe he just thought the jelly was called ketchup but no, he went and got the ketchup out of the fridge and threw a fit until I gave in and put it on his pancake! And to make it even worse, he asked for another one! With ketchup! My brother always tells me, 'don't knock it til you try it' this is just one of those things I can not bring myself to try. Gross.

Pumpkins!

Today we took the boys to our Bishops pumpkin patch to pick out a pumpkin, which turned into 3 pumpkins! Its always so fun to go there, every year the town has a harvest festival where there are wagon rides out to the fields and you can pick your pumpkin. This year it was too cold and windy and yucky to go so we went today, what a beautiful day too! For our 3 pumpkins that weighed 30 + pounds, we only paid $11!

Unemployment: Day 2

Me and my biggest boy

Caleb has a deer hunt in a couple of weeks so he took Luke and I out with him to sight his guns in. It was fun, Luke is a typical little boy and loves guns! Caleb would let him pull the trigger and he was so excited! Caleb can't wait until Luke and Ryan are old enough to start doing youth hunts, that will really be exciting!I don't know why we put these on him, he doesn't hear anything anyway!

My handsome hubbby

Shooting MY gun (funny story with that...caleb bought it for me for my birthday one year)
He put his own glasses on

Luke loved this .22, he could easily pull the trigger and he loved it!My turn!

We set up the clay targets and Luke was helping, he laied them flat and we couldn't see them! What a helper!Luke got a little bored while Caleb sighted his hunting rifles in

Unemployment: Day 1

On Tuesday Caleb was laid off from the paper mill as a reduction in force....Catalyst and Smurffit Stone couldn't come to terms for a new contract on the machine Caleb worked on, so they are just taking it out! Crazy. Anyway, There were close to 100 people affected by this and on tuesday night Caleb was #1 on the call back list to be rehired if there was an opening. Well Wednesday morning he got a call! I'm not sure if it is a good thing or a bad thing but he took the job but can't start until October 27th.

So with no work and nothing to do, Caleb decided that he IS going to catch a fish, and Luke IS going to see it! So we went fishing again! Luke just loves to cast his line in the water, he just has a weight on the end so it doesn't get snagged on things. There were lots of fish jumping and Caleb almost had one but right now it is catch and release only so you can't use barbed hooks so the fish spit it out before he can get it out of the water to show Luke! What fun and what a Beautiful Day!