Saturday, October 23, 2010

THE HALLOWEEN OLYMPICS

Our Halloween Party wasn't your everyday typical Halloween Party. It was funner and way cooler!


Caryn and I had planned some way fun activities. Surprisingly, everyone was cooperative.


EVENT 1: PUMPKIN BOWLING



Right away, after Dale bowled, the pumpkin lost his insides. We put it back together the best we could using tape. As you can see in the other pictures, it worked really well.




Creative!


Mike was really helpful and put the 2 liters back into place for the next bowler.


STRIKE!

I did better in pumpkin bowling than in real bowling. Too bad, my score doesn't even compare! Good news! We had won this event. WAHOO!


EVENT 2: PUDDING PICTIONARY



Sorry for the blurry picture!


This is played like normal pictionary but instead you draw in the pudding. The object was to guess the item being drawn before the other team. Each time had their own pudding. This event wasn't our best. We didn't get any before anyone else.


I don't know who won this event since we didn't keep score.


EVENT 3: BEAN BAG TOSS




I don't remember the scoring exactly but I do know that where my bean bag landed was the highest scoring spot. Even though I got one on exactly we didn't win this round. Caryn and Ty did!

EVENT 4: BOBBING FOR APPLES


This by far was the funniest event.


Sonnet went first...



Before

After



I admit it! Right after I saw Sonnet go I was deathly afraid of my turn. I didn't want to become a drowned rat.



Quinn got super hungry right after so I went into the other room with him. I thought I was off the hook. Nope, they waited. It wasn't as bad as I thought.




They were kind to record it for me!


EVENT 5: FREEZING FEET


The object was to put as many marbles as you can in the other tin before 1 minute hits. This is actually a lot harder than it looks. I'd like to think that I do fairly well picking things up with my toys. I thought I was going to do really good. Well, I was wrong. I only got four. That was about average. Caryn did so good. We thought it was because she went first and the ice hadn't melted. She went again and got so many! We were all impressed.



I'm not sure who the overall winner was. Probably Caryn and Ty because they won the bean bag toss and the freezing feet events.



Coming soon...is a group photo!

Monday, October 11, 2010

Small Mini Vacation

Usually working at Blacker's is the same of mundane tasks. This time Mike got to do something a little bit more exciting. He had a guy come in that had just bought a cabin in Island Park. He needed some furniture bids. He decided that he would let us go to his cabin and spend the night. That way Mike could get more of an idea of what he's looking for.



He didn't have to tell us twice. We packed and were on our way. The guy had drawn us a map. By the looks of it the map didn't look too difficult to follow. We were basically there when we pulled up to a cabin thinking it was the one. Well, we couldn't find a keypad to get in. It was kind of frustrating because we didn't think to get a key. After a while of trying to find a way in we received a call. By the information that was given us we finally figured out we were at the wrong place.



The map wasn't clear what it was so we pulled into each driveway until we found a key pad. When we found the right one we were super excited because it was way nice. Right when we walked in we had to explore the place. Mike was all geared up to take pictures and then changed his mind. He decided to wait until there was more light (since it was dark by this time.)


As you can tell it's still under construction (somewhat.) Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures from the outside. These are only a few of the rooms.





Kitchen


Sitting Area (Connected to Kitchen)


Same Picture...different angle



Dining Room



Upstairs Loft



Upstairs Living Room/Sitting Area




Basement Game Room

We got settled in and Mike decided that he NEEDED some ice cream. I wasn't in any particular mood to go get some but I went anyways. We settled on some root beer floats. We had this great plan of leaving on one of the light to make sure we could find the cabin a lot easier in the dark. You could guess! Yep, it took us a long time to find the right one again. I felt so lame!

I was so worried about Quinn sleeping a new place since this would be his first time. I shouldn't have because he slept better than Mike and I. He fell asleep in his bouncer around 10:00 and he didn't wake until 9:00. I think that he slept better that night than he does at home. For me, on the other hand, had the worst night sleep in forever. Mike couldn't sleep so he went out and watched a movie. I was excited about this because I wanted the bed to myself. I got up around 1:00 to go to the bathroom and heard Mike snoring. So, I assumed I would get it to myself the whole night. Well, Mike at 2:00 came in. He touched my shoulder to get me to move over. I screamed and started kicking. For some reason I thought I was being attacked. Because I was riled up I couldn't get back to sleep till 5:00. I was so hot and had to go in the other room to open some windows. Then, I woke at 8:00.


I thought he was so cute in these pajamas. They were perfect for where we were. Thank you Karalee!


Where Runt Slept



The next day we took a while getting ready for the day. About 1:00 we had this great idea to go to West Yellowstone. We thought, "it's not that far way, why not?" We headed out! (We stopped at the gas station to make our root beer floats since we didn't have them the night before. We got some strange looks but other than that no one thought anything of us!)



We arrived at the service station. For some reason we didn't realize you had to pay! It's been a while since we've both been. $25 later we were in. We started our drive toward Old Faithful. Little did I know how cool West Yellowstone really was. Mike said that my eyes lit up when passed every little thing.


Buffalo (I'm so excited!)


Mike also being enthused!

You pass lots of this on the way to Old Faithful



Old Faithful was the coolest. We arrived and found out that we had about 30-45 minutes until she was scheduled to go off again. It was cold and I needed to go to the bathroom so we went inside the lodge. The plan was to hurry and feed Quinn and change his diaper. Then we learned that he had a blowout all the way down his leg and up his back. Since I had just come from the bathroom, I didn't find a baby changing table. We went upstairs and just found a corner. We went to work. Mike started with his bottom half and I tackled his top half. Of course, he started to scream bloody murder. We got a lot of looks and observers. Finally, with that mess cleaned up, we thought we were going to miss her going off. I hurried and fed him enough to get him by.


Finally There!

We went outside and found out that we had another 10 minutes. Remember, it was cold. We wished we didn't rush so fast to get out there. We patiently waited. Quinn was happy inside of his stroller (for the most part...Mike had to push him for a minute or two to get him calmed down.)


Quinn in his car seat


Then...




Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Quinn's 4 month stats

Quinn went to the doctor yesterday. The doctor says he's healthy and everything looks good.
Yes, he got his 4 month shots. :( Poor Quinn! He hasn't been reacting well to his immunizations.



Once again I thought I'd share his stats.


Weight 20.8 lbs. (99.54 %tile)

Length 28 in. (99.36%tile)

Head circumference 17.5 (92.07%tile)








FYI: He's 4 months and 12 days old!