Shots...

Jacob had his 6 month appointment today...yes, I know I'm a little late, but he's not quite 7 months. He was 28 inches long and 22 pounds! He was 95th percentile for weight, height, and head size...yes Jared, my boys to have big heads! I even said that to the doctor, and he said, "It's ok, we like big heads, there's plenty of room for a big brain!" So maybe it is true...hmmm. I know I'm bias because I'm his mom, but I really was reminded today that I have such a sweet boy (I guess two:). Jacob was so smiley and friendly to everyone, and he really was fun to play with 1 on 1 since Noah was at a friends house. He has such an easy-going personality and is so cute! It's a good thing, because now, after getting his shots, it's a different story! He won't let me put him down! My mom came home and said he seemed so happy, and he is! As long as he's being held. This doesn't work out so well with a cranky brother too! Right now Jacob is taking his first nap longer then ten minutes today (it's five!) and Noah is watching Lilo and Stitch, so I have a little break. Noah finally is sitting through tv! Did you ever think you would hear a mom excited about that?

Mt. Hood

We are home from our weekend up at the mountain, and we had a great time! The weather was perfect and everything was gorgeous up there! We celebrated Andrew's birthday and my mom's, had some delicious meals, and spent a lot of time outside and at the pool, or for me I guess I should say hot tub...

Weekend Away

We are headed up to the mountain this weekend, actually in a few hours to celebrate my mom's birthday as well as Andrew's! He's turning 23 in 5 days! We are staying in a cabin up at Mt. Hood RV Village, there's swimming, hiking, a playground, fishing... pretty much anything we could want to do all right there! I'll post some pictures when we get back! Have a great weekend!

All good things must come to an end...

I had to post about the awesome season that my volleyball team has had as it draws to a close. Tomorrow is our last game, we've lost one game and finished first in our league and first in 2 out of 3 tournaments that we have had. My girls played so hard and were awesome! I loved getting to coach at the high school level. In two weeks I start coaching 11 and 12 year olds through July, so that will be a whole different level, but I'm sure fun in a different way!

I've been working out a few days a week, but today decided to really step it up, so I took a class at the club (Clubsport Oregon). This wasn't just any regular class, as I normally take step, yoga, or strength classes, but this was an hour of jumping and legs...nonstop! I thought I was going to die pretty much the whole time. Actually, there were about two minutes where I was feeling good, then I realized I still had 58 minutes left! It is specialty class, so it costs extra, so I'm not going to do it that often, but I'll shoot for 1 day a week to keep me working hard! I still have ten pounds left, hopefully by Christmas I'll be at my goal!

Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday we went to the pumpkin patch--actually, two of them. We went to one out in Canby that had a pumpkin train (kind of scary if you look at the pictures:) and a hay mountain. The other one was in Aurora and that one had all the animals and bounce houses, and all sorts of activities--more of a festival. Noah loved it of course and picked out the perfect pumpkin with dad. Here are a bunch of pictures from our day! We took some video, but I don't have time to upload, edit, and post it now, I'll add it on later. Happy Fall!

Family Hikes

We have so many beautiful places around us here, so we have decided as a family to take advantage of those places. Wednesday, we hiked Mt. Talbert as a family. Noah blazed the trail hiking the whole time by himself! Andrew and I commented several times about having to keep up with him, let alone being slowed down my him! He kept saying "I love it! Hiking's my favorite! We almost hiking (as he was traveling up the hill)" I don't know if he quite got the concept of what it was, but he had a great time. He made it up and down by himself, I was quite impressed.

Today we went down to the river just a few minutes from our house where Noah got to throw rocks, he's obsessed with rocks, thanks Nicole! Needless to say, he was in heaven today getting to throw rock after rock. It was a beautiful day again today, so we got to enjoy the nice weather and the leaves just beginning to change. There were some geese there that were so scary! They were surrounding us looking for food, so we gave up our peanuts in fear for our lives! At one point they had Jacob's stroller surrounded and I had to fight them off to get to him. They were hissing, and huge! They moved on after a few minutes, but I was actually scared! As we were leaving a lady and her dog came, and she said that he gets his exercise by chasing them around and swimming after them, so I was glad they were going to be tortured for a few minutes too!

Tomorrow we are off to music class and the pumpkin patch! I'll post all my pictures tomorrow, there are some pretty ones from today!

Happy Birthday to Nana!

I have been so late in posting because I can not find my camera cord... annoying! I am borrowing one tomorrow from my sister, so will add pictures to these posts tomorrow. Sorry, I know that's the best part of reading blogs.

Monday was my Mom's birthday, we walked hot chocolate over to her school and sang happy birthday with all her little kindergarteners, and then had a birthday dinner with strawberry shortcake to celebrate. She is such a blessing to our family in how she gives of herself constantly--watching the boys, cleaning up after us, and bending over backwards to help us out. We have a nice system going (or at least I think it's nice:) where I cook and she cleans. Don't tell her, but I think I'm getting the better deal.



Noah loves his Nana, every time the garage door goes up, he runs and opens the door and screams, "Hi Nana!" When he prays at night he says, "Dear God, thank you for Nana, and thank you for ... and thank you for Nana, and thank you for... and thank you for Nana." Thanks for all you do Nana we love you! Here's your late birthday post!