Sundays, Football and Nice Weather

The weather has been so warm the past week, today it was in the low 90's!! I am so ready for the cooler fall days but for now I will have to be happy with the cooler fall mornings. Colt has been enjoying the weather and doing lots of playing outside. I think he would spend all day outside if we would let him. We have all his trucks, bats, balls and his slide out on the back patio area so he can just go right out and play when he wants.
Since it is Sunday and we are spending the entire day watching football I put him in his Peyton Manning jersey. I think it was good luck because the Colts won this week (though barely!). So we will have to continue to do this every time they play. He wore this exact same jersey last year during football season and it was a little too big (its size 18 months) this year it fits him perfectly! The Price's got this for him before he was even born and he has put it to good use.

Go Colts!

Love the mornings!

The mornings during the weekend are my favorite time right now. Since I went back to work this is the only time Colt and I can really spend relaxing mornings together. We usually get up around 7 and I give him some milk and we hit the road together for a morning run. The fall mornings are nice and cool here but not too cold for Colt. It is perfect!

I taught Colt to tell us how old he is. Now whenever we ask him how old are you he will put his finger in the air like this. I get the biggest kick out of his personality! Every meal is never complete until Byson gets his share too. This usually means that Colt is full and ready to get down. It starts with him feeding Byson and then if we let him sit too long he stars throwing his food on the floor. So NAUGHTY!! We have been trying to work on this with him but he still does it.

Back to School!

It's been awhile! I bet you can all tell that I am back to working and no longer enjoying my summer break:( We have been back to school for 3 weeks now and I feel like those wonderful 8 weeks off never happened. We have picked back up our busy schedule of getting up early, dropping Colt off at daycare, working all day, picking Colt up from daycare, fixing dinner, eating dinner, giving Colt a bath and storytime, putting Colt to bed and then running around the house trying to clean, do laundry, or work on school stuff for the next day and finally falling into bed and falling fast asleep until we do it all over again!

My school year has started off fantastic, I have a great group of classes this year and feel like I have the best group of kids that I have ever had since I started teaching 6 years ago. I teach a 6 period day but I only teach 5 classes since one of those periods is my planning period. I do not have one bad class and that is unusual as I usually have at least 1 that challenges me and most years 2! I was really not looking forward to going back to work but the transition has gone really smoothly and the students remind me why I like being here at work everyday!

Colt has done well going back to daycare, he cried when we dropped him off for the first 2 weeks but he has gotten better this last week. He sure is excited when we pick him up though, he comes running at us and immediately starts blowing Joyce (she is our daycare provider) "kisses goodbye." He is so cute with his kisses, he knows that when he gets in trouble if he gives us a kiss we will forgive him. So the minute we get mad at him he looks at us and puckers up his lips to give us a kiss. The other day he was playing with his bat and hit the wall with it. Dave looked at him and told him no and he immediately went over to the wall and gave it a kiss:) Too cute! He knows how to kiss now, he puckers up those lips and make the smooching sound and he also loves to blow kisses to random people he sees while we are out and about. He has started to become a little more picky about what he is eating, my theory is if he does not eat what I put on his tray then he just will not eat:) I do make sure he is eating so I always be sure to give him foods that he likes but I try to throw new things on his tray too so he will get used to eating what is in front of him. He has thinned out alot over the past 2 months, I think most of that has to do with the fact that he never stops. From the minute he wakes up until naptime he is moving NON-STOP, he always takes a really good nap though and is then running around non-stop until bedtime. Its no wonder he is getting skinny:) He is also very tall for his age, I can tell when he is around other kids his age because he is always the tallest one. He loves to play outside with his trucks, bat and ball. The other night I had put his truck and train pajamas on him and he ran over to Dave and would point to the truck on his pj's and go "vroom vroom" then he would point to the train and go "woo woo" and make the motion with his hand. This morning I was taking off his pajamas and they have a lion on the chest he points to it and goes "roar." The age he is at right now is so cute and I just laugh at him daily at all the little things he is doing and discovering. It is so fun to watch him grow!

Besides Colt everything with the parents is going well. Dave's work is doing very well, he is loving that football season is here and parks himself on the couch all day on the weekends. He has two fantasy leagues he is in right now so he is always watching to see how he is doing. He also just got an electric guitar and is determined that he will learn how to play that during the football game commercials this season. Colt loves listening to him play and of course wants to help so if anything it will keep Colt busy while he is watching football:)

I had a minor surgery on a mole on my leg this past month. I had noticed a mole that I had always had was changing color so I went and got it looked at. The doctor did not think it was anything but I went ahead and got it removed. Turns out there was some pre-cancerous cells growing in it, I had to go back in and have a nice size chunk taken out of my leg. It required 26 stiches but I am as good as new! I will be taking a lot of precaution for the rest of my life as far as laying out in the sun and just being proactive about any other suspicious moles. I will be posting some pictures within the next day so check back soon!

Labor Day

We decided to get away for Labor Day weekend and drove up to Tollgate and stayed with our good friends Audra and Brent at there cabin. They had 4-wheelers and Dave and Colt wanted to do nothing all weekend but ride those!
Colt loved every second of it and cried when I made him get off. I was not too sure about him being on them because he had no helmet and he is too little. Dave assured me he had it under control and went really really slow and did not go more than 100 yards from the cabin.
While Dave and Brent took the 4-wheelers for a ride; Audra, Colt and I played in the sand next to the lake. Audra was teaching Colt how to throw bread to the ducks.
Colt and Mom.

The weather was so great at the cabin, it was cool the entire time and you needed a sweatshirt and long pants on to stay warm. I love the fall weather. Now if it would hurry up and come to Walla Walla, its still in the high 80's here!
Colt is so intrigued with bats and sticks right now so I bent down to grab it for him before he toppled in himself!
The perfect stick to hit people with:) That stick kept him entertained for at least 30 minutes!
Audra was trying to clean Colt up after the fun with the stick and he was not too happy about it!
It was fun to get away for the weekend and hang out with good friends. We had not seen them all summer because they had spent the summer backpacking Europe! The cabin where we stayed is Audra's dad and its more of a lodge than a cabin. It sleeps 22 people and they just finished building it last November. It was beautiful and so relaxing!

Bath Time

Getting ready for his bath. Looks at those cute buns!
He loves to turn the shower on, luckily I had turned the water off just in time.
Quick smile for the camera.
All clean and rocking Hank the Tank in his chair.

Every night before bed we do the same routine. He gets a bath around 6:00 and then around 6:30 I get him a warm cup of milk and we sit in this chair and rock and read a book before bed. He is usually asleep by 7:00. His favorite books are the ones with animals in it. He has gotten very good at saying the animals names and then telling me the sound they make. He can say: dog-woof, kitty (titty)-meow, monkey (can't say it but can make the sound) - ahahah, cow-moo, horse-neigh, and duck. He is also starting to get really good at imitating what we say and he is still using his sign language quite a bit but is getting a lot more verbal. He has started to say Mama a lot lately and I love hearing him say it, he only says it directly to me which makes me so happy!! He loves to give hugs and blow kisses to EVERYONE he sees. He also has started to pucker his mouth when he gives kisses, Dave is glad because he hated all those open mouth kisses with all that slobber:)

WINK!!

Dave taught Colt to wink about 2 months ago and I finally got a picture of it. Don't mind his dirty face he had just had dinner and we were giving him a bath but he was winking so much that I wanted to catch a picture. He winks better than me and he will do it on command. Its pretty cute!

South Fork bike ride

Colt spent the night with my mom and dad last night, they really missed him since they had not seen him in 2 weeks. Dave and I had the night to ourselves, which was so relaxing for both of us. We watched the Olympics, went to DQ for freezes and went to bed late knowing we would not have to wake up early. This morning we decided to go mountain biking on the South Fork of the Walla Walla. We have been hiking there many times and Dave has rode his bike on the trail but I never had. It was fun but it was also some serious mountain biking. Lots of rocks, very narrow trails and lots of hills. Here's the order of the events: 1. Bike riding up hill we see a rattle snake and sneak past quickly 2. Continue riding and slam on breaks as a HUGE rattlesnake was laying across the path (at this point I was thinking we should just turn around) it slithered away so we continue on. 3.Dave is going down a VERY steep hill with nothing but a cliff next to him, his bike gets caught on a rock and goes over the edge along with Dave. Lucky for Dave there was a big tree in his way so he grabbed onto that and was able to pull himself back up to the trail. The bike was fine and so was Dave (he does have quite a few scrapes and bruises ALL OVER his body though). 4. Now its my turn to fall, I am going up and down these hills with all these rocks and my pedal catches on one and down I go. I fell right on top of my right shin and my entire shin is scraped up and has a huge bruise on it that is pretty swollen. 5. We continue on and then right in front of me is a freshly dead rabbit. I scream and Dave mentions something about maybe a cougar killed it. 6. We turn around and head back to the car.

We made it back in one piece and it really was a fun way to get out of the house and exercise. Next time I think I just want to stick to the roadways though!

Please Pray

Growing up I was very close with many of my cousins from my mom's side of the family. My closest cousin age wise was Brent and we spent many holidays sneaking into my grandma's closet and eating christmas cookies hoping no one was watching! As we grew older we spent less time together as our families expanded, we got married, had kids and life grew busy. However, all of my cousins are still close to my heart. Tonight I ask you all to pray for Brent's wife Melissa(Mo). Mo was diagnosed with breast cancer this past June and today she underwent surgery for a double masectomy. Please pray for her and her family as they go through this together. Brent and Mo have two young boys, Max is 2 and Cannon was just born this past January. Keep them all in your thoughts and prayers! You can follow there story here.

McCall Idaho - Long Road Trip

We left Thursday August 7 for McCall Idaho. Dave's parents have a timeshare so they got two condos for all of the family to stay in. There were 12 people total now with the two kids and Katie's FIANCEE (more to come later). We left Walla Walla about noon on Thursday and met up with everyone else in Dayton for lunch. The trip is supposed to take about 4.5 hours but it took us over 9!! We stopped so many times, with so many people needing to use the bathroom, eat, etc. It was still really fun though and the drive was beautiful. Colt was awesome in the car, it did not bother him at all that he was in the car for that long. He was happy the entire way there!
We stopped about an hour from McCall at a rest stop and below the rest stop was the Salmon River. We took a break from driving and went and played in the river.

Colt loved putting his feet in the water, the coldness did not even faze him.
Colt and Camryn both loved to grab the rocks and throw them back in the river.

Colt's clothes were getting all wet so we went ahead and stripped him down and let him run through the water naked (with Memah's help). Afterwards Dave carried him back up to the car and I went to grab him some clothes and he peed all over Dave. Colt thought it was so funny, he had the biggest smile on his face. So in the end both Dave and Colt had to change clothes.

Katie's ENGAGED!!

Dave's little sister Katie is getting married. Travis proposed to her on August 6th. They will be married January 17th in Kennewick. We are all excited for the wedding and Travis is a great guy. It was fun to hang out with him for a week and really get to know him better, he is very easy going and fun to be around. I should have taken a picture of her ring, its gorgeous (and HUGE)!!!!