Sunshines and Creeps

Sunshine to doing Sunshines and Creeps for the first time in 3 weeks.

Sunshine to my parents visiting us in MSP today. This is the first time they've been here since we moved. I'm excited to show them our house.

Creep to my car brakes needing to be replaced. Double Creep that we realized this is Grand Forks last weekend, so we left my car there. Road trip tomorrow to go get it :-(

Sunshine to buying a kitchen cart last night. We've been wanting one since we moved in. Creep to the fact we won't be able to pick it up (in Roseville - not close!) for 2 weeks.

Sunshine to the nice weather forecast this weekend. We plan to hike or bike.

Sunshine to yoga this week - man, it felt good.

Creep to sucking at my goals this month. But when life (and death) happen, you can't always do everything you want to...

Sunshine to being busy, but not stressed out, at work. Busy I like. Stress- not so much.

Sunshine to seeing my Gamma Phi GFs last weekend at Steph's wedding. I hope we can do a girls + baby Caleb weekend sometime this spring!

Creep to hardly watching any fall shows. Too much going on.

Creep to Michael not feeling well. I'm starting to not feel well. This could be bad...

Sunshine to fall. This is my absolute favorite season.

Kaden - Part 2

I have so many pictures from our time in ND that I needed to do another post. Here are some of my other faves.Having Kaden around sure made everyone smile a lot, which was so nice.

More pumpkins pics.

Some funny faces.

Playing with Grandma and Grandpa.

 Bath time fun.

And a few more (when Kaden decided that Grandma and Grandpa's house was kind of like a bouncy castle, and was throwing himself all over it).

The boys

As you know, I was home in ND last week because of the death of my grandfather. It was a sad time for my family, but it was really nice to see everyone and celebrate the life of my Grandpa.

This is going to be a pretty picture heavy post. I will do another post tomorrow because there are just so many photos.

One of the things that really helped keep everyone's spirits high was the presence of two little boys. My nephew Kaden and my cousin Henry are 16 and 15 months and holy cow, talk about cuties! Kaden has grown up SO much since I last saw him - he talks (favorite word is "out," as in "Let's go outside" but he also enjoys "ball"), plays, points (especially remotes) smiles, and is just so fun to be around. Here's a few pics of Kaden playing at our house.

He loved that remote and knew exactly how to use it.

Only Kaden gets to walk on top of the hot tub!

"Ball"

This is an old little gun that my dad intends to be Kaden's one day.

My parents grew a pumpkin patch and we put the boys out there for some pics. We even took some pics of the big kids too!

Huge pumpkins. Good job, Mom and Dad!

Dad trying to move a pumpkin.

Kaden discovered falling was fun that night. He fell A LOT after that; I think many were on purpose :-)

Kaden and Daddy

Henry and Kaden

Are they not the cutest little boys ever!

Big boys and little boys. Uncle Don (Henry's dad), Dad, Chris, and Michael

Big girls and little boys. Aunt Melanie, Aunt Heidi (Henry's mom), Mom, Jami, Me, and Jessi

Moms and their sons.

The big boys decided it would be fun to smash the small gords. Here's some pics of that (and our farm).

And here's a few more of Kaden and Henry playing at my grandma's.

Henry. Such a sweet, sweet baby.

Kaden found some beads. He loved them. I think he will be a Saints fan like his Daddy.