October craze

Random Fun Things from October

Hitting up the library.  It's a regular for us.

I love finding her selfies on my phone. haha.  Who knew you could learn to do that at age 3?  

She has now started feeding Boston.  The perks of having 2 are finally starting to kick in.  Boston thinks Solana is awesome, and will crawl around the house following her with whatever she is doing.  About half of the time, Solana thinks it is great and will do whatever she can to make him bust up, which doesn't take much.  The other half of the time, she just tries to escape!

This is how I watched the LDS conference. Adam was traveling, and it was just me sitting at the kitchen table while these two played at my feet.  Which made it really easy for me to tune them out and watch it live. (because I knew right where they were) And it was the best conference session.  So it worked out. 

I think my hair towel is her cape or something, I don't remember now, but she wanted me to take her picture with this face.

Then she wanted me to do the same. 

The other sessions of conference were watched like this.  No, she is not watching conference, she is watching a movie while we sit and watch conference in peace.

I still love finding Boston all dressed up.  Solana came and found me and said "Look he is super Boston!"  He is such a good sport. 

Solana loves hanging out with Daddy while he works out. She thinks its game time to use him as a jungle gym.  

She wanted to wear my halloween wig.  hahahaaa!

While enjoying one our movie nights, I looked over at him and started busting up laughing. We were enjoying popcorn drizzled with melted chocolate and not to my surprise, Adam had it all over him. Oh that man...

Bedtime stories have become hilarious.  Since Boston is so mobile now, he loves to participate/destroy any book that is currently being read. We try and read another or distract him, but he only wants the one that is being read to Solana.  We usually end up reading it high up in the air so he can't reach it at all. We are still working on getting a system down.

Lego buddies

Boston is pretty fast on the stairs, but Solana thinks its so fun to race him. And she always wins, which is the sad and funny part, because both parties think it is just SO fun and want to race again and again.

He is always happy when he can climb.

Serious pumpkin artists.  You might think we were too lazy to carve them, but I think painting them just  allowed us to be more creative.

She loves loves loves to paint.  

Happy October! 

Brooke and Piper!

It was such a great surprise (it was random and somewhat last minute) to have my sister Brooke and her outgoing, fun-loving, and oh-so-sweet little girl Piper come out to visit.  Boston loved having a friend he could roam around with, and Solana loved pretending that Piper was both her little sister and her cousin (she is going through a sister phase).  Brooke was a trooper and flew out to the east to have some relaxing time here.  The days flew by, but we enjoyed all the moments we could, especially while the babes slept.  We use to live by each other, back when Adam and I were in college, and I sure do miss having her close to me. But it was fun to catch up and have another mommy in the house to help and understand the tiredness, scatterbrainness, and other messes that come our way. We missed them when they left.  But we look forward to seeing them in December!  

Here are the highlights:

Meeting for the first time. 

Hanging out the next morning. Poor Piper had caught a small cold before she arrived, and was such a trooper getting over it.  She never even acted like she was sick, such a trooper.  Boston obviously approves.

Little buddies to share toys with. They were so fun playing together.

"So how does your toy taste?" "Mmmm...same as yours....delicious!"

"Did you need to strain some peas too? Here you go." 

Cooking in such a small kitchen has its challenges.

We took the ferry over to Surry to enjoy what was left of the pumpkin patch. 

It was very cold and windy there -Solana is not a fan of too cold or too hot weather, just like me! :)

I mean...priceless.

The more kids you get the harder it gets to actually get a photo. So we take what we can get. Sorry Solana lost out on this one. haha

She is so cuddly. 

Solana got to party upstairs with Mom and Dad while Brooke was here, and she loved sleeping upstairs. 

She loves animals and its always fun to head down to CW and check them out.

Piper checking out the sheep. Such a cutie.

I wonder what they are talking about.  When I look at this I know she loves having a brother, despite her frequently asking me "Can we pretend Boston is a girl?"

This shot was my favorite. Love you guys!

Awe...

I love her pondering face. 

He gets really excited for just about anything.

And we wore them out.  They were great car seat buddies. 

Asheville Road Trip

So, after thinking about this little adventure for two years, we finally jumped in the car to take the shortest road trip ever! 15 hours on the road on a 36 hour trip!  And only a few times (okay maybe more than a few) did we have the thought "Why are are doing this again?" 

We decided to venture in to the most beautiful country, Asheville, North Carolina.  We fell in love with it while we were driving our U-haul out to Virginia, two years ago.  Adam and I both agree, it is as close to Montana as we have ever seen outside of Montana.  Just gorgeous mountains.  Now that we've gone back, and confirmed that yes, the place is awesome, we realized that we would definitely love to live there in the far far future.  So great, we've picked out our retirement spot.

  So we drove 7 hours (or longer with all the stops we had to make) and we arrived at the best sale ever, which, let's be honest, is the real reason we did this. The fabled JCrew Warehouse Sale!  For those that aren't in the know, J Crew has a couple of warehouses on the East Coast, and a couple of times a year they open their doors to employees and sell all of their stuff in big bins at just drop-dead prices.  (Just to demonstrate how awesome it is, the next day, the sale was open to the public, and there was a line that was like 6 hours long - outside in the freezing cold rain!  So, it's pretty dang good.)

Yes, we drove all that way for a sale, and yes it was worth it.  Even though it was stressful having kids in tow, it was all about the fun of having a random adventure, and I actually found some things I had been wanting for some time.  I wish we had more time so I could have shopped more, but really with how big the sale is, you could never feel like you got to go through everything.  On our way out of Asheville, we randomly decided to hit up the North Carolina Arboretum. It was a beautiful park, and we toured the Bonsai trees, which to our surprise we found fascinating.  To no one's surprise, Adam decided that the next hobby he should take up is cultivating a Bonsai in our future tiny Manhattan apartment. Here are the only shots we got during this whirlwind road trip. 

Aren't they beautiful!? It took Adam like 2 seconds to want one for our apartment in the city.  I guess he envisions himself working a deal closing until midnight and then coming home to trim the Bonsai.  

She is pondering what to wish for, but after some time she wished that she could have a party with all her friends. So cute! Then she threw multiple pennies in the pond.

Car seat breaks.  There were many.

One of the necklaces that I scored at the sale, that later became the car entertainment accessory.  We got really tired towards the end, and you really start to resort to anything you can to stay awake.  But its a fun memory and what more could you want from a last minute adventure.