Sleepless...

 My family have been troopers this past month - I can't believe it's almost October . Officer's parents were able to come up for a quick visit at the beginning of the month and it was great to spend time with them.  We also took some friends and their boys up to our family cabin.  They took lots of pictures so I'll have to post some when I get them from them, but we had a really fun week.  Officer is still working weekend swings, which means he often has overtime and even later nights turn into early mornings.  Peanut has complained of leg pains for quite some time now (that's a whole other post on it's own, but to sum it up - she regularly wakes up screaming/crying/sweating inconsolably from them.) and Handsome has been teething, so sleeping hasn't been the greatest right now in our house and some days it has been feeling like all we do is trade off who gets to sneak in a nap.  Although tired, we're getting by and trying to enjoy the wonderful fall weather before it gets too cold to play outside.             

Miss Peanut is suddenly all princess - she has been found in my shoes twirling and dancing often lately!  She had never seen Beauty and the Beast until this week (I know I'm kind of picky - some things are still kind of scary), but has been insisting for weeks that she be princess Belle for Halloween. 

One of the watermelons from our garden - we had quite a few - but they didn't all get ripe - I think because of all the crazy weather changes here.

Peanut and I made cupcakes to share when Officer's parent were here.  It was Handsome's first cupcake and he loved it so much that he started licking the tray for any stray crumbs he couldn't get into his hands.  Watch out 1st birthday cake!

Helping me with the laundry - Handsome just got a haircut again - it grows so fast and little miss Peanut - she plays way too much for her hair to stay cute - that's the way it's supposed to be right?

Miss Peanut

I realize that I don't have a lot of pictures of me with the kids because I'm often the one taking the picture.  I got thinking about it and I decided it was something important, so anyway I've made an effort to take more of us together and this afternoon while Handsome slept we went and enjoyed the beautiful weather outside and got a little goofy with the camera.  She was pretty silly and it was really hard to hold the camera steady because we were laughing!  She also had to have her arm around my neck - I kept trying to move it and she'd put it right back.  I love this girl!

First White Shirt and Tie

I kept thinking I needed to get this little man some real church clothes.  When I started looking everywhere was telling me that they only carry stuff like that around Christmas and Easter.  Sad.  But then I remembered Burlington Coat Factory - they always have stuff like this, Thanks!  He was just adorable today - don't you think so?

The grass was a little cold - hence the face.

We found an kiddie swing for our swing set. He loves to swing! 

Love this face!

Corn from our garden

First time shucking corn - she was amazed!  Then we ate it for dinner - so yummy!

My cute babies!

Can't believe he's almost 1!?  How did that happen?

Would barley sit still long enough to take this, so cute and so busy!