HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Happy Halloween everyone!! It is so beautiful outside here today! It's seriously like 63 degrees and sunny! My favorite kind of fall weather! I am so excited to go trick or treating tonight! On Tuesday night we carved pumpkins and watched The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown...it's a tradition! It was so much fun! We only had one knife accident....Josh cut his finger! We also cooked the pumpkin seeds, yummy, and made ghost cookies! Payton is going to be Cookie Monster this year! We've done some fun stuff today, Eric is here with Payton and me, so we've done lots of projects and played outside!!! Our little Cookie Monster!!! Mommy & Paytons pumpkin!!

Daddy & Paytons Brewer pumpkin!

Don't worry, it's only a butter knife! (I'm sure Uncle Casey and Uncle Tom will love this picture....he looks like he's about to stab someone!)

Carving pumpkins!

Mommy and Payton cleaning out our pumpkin!!!

Daddy and Payton cleaning out their pumpkin!

More cleaning!

Payton watching his "Fire Movie" with his fire hat from Grampa on!

Watching his fire movie....do not try to turn hit fire hat around...this is how he wears it!!! He is a fireman you know!

Eric and Payton watching the roofers roof our house this week! Thank goodness they're done!

Painting with a bath puff! This turns out awesome!

Pumpkin prints with apples!

More apple stamping! We added a face onto the orange apple stamp and a brown stem!

Stampin!

Pumpkin painting!

More pumpkin painting!

This is what the boys had for breakfast today! Ghost chocolate chip pancakes!!

Payton

Watchin some tv with his blankey and pillow in the laundry basket! Last week Payton graduated from swimming lessons! Proud baby!

First things first

I would like to make a spelling/word pronunciation correction on my last post. Thanks to my wonderful fiance, almost an English major, and my all knowing (seriously) step-father I was confronted on what I've thought all my life to be "wheel barrel". Only to find out by two of my favorite men is really "wheelbarrow". So thanks for that guys. Anyways.....we had a wonderful visit with my family in Stevens Point. The weekend was too short as usual and I failed to take any pictures, which is really sad. I planned to charge my camera right when I got there but as we're always on the go, I failed:( Really there's no excuse. We had a great great time. Friday we took Payton and Hunter to get some pictures taken, had lunch at my favorite Chinese restaurant for Kyle's birthday and then Josh had a nice evening out with his friends and I got to spend some time with my girl cousins like when we were little! Lauren and I obsessed over wedding cake books! On Saturday most of the women on my moms side of the family came wedding dress shopping with me. It was so fun! It was my first time wedding dress shopping, and although I didn't find "the" dress I found lots of beautiful ones and got an idea of what I'm looking for. It was just nice to spend some time with my mom, cousins and aunts! Payton got to spend the entire day with his Grampa and daddy. Saturday night we had a family dinner at Sky Club which was nice. Sunday we got engagement pictures taken, went to lunch with my dad and Jen, visited my grandparents (which was really nice) lounged around, had a great homemade dinner and watched the Packer game. It reminded me of Sundays when we used to live there. We would go to my parents house for dinner and to watch the Packer game! Our weekend was great. Counting down until Thanksgiving when we get to go back! Today I am doing stuff around the house and later we're going to get Payton a Halloween costume which he doesn't want but needs to have!!! Don't forget to enjoy your families!

Pumpkin Farm

This weekend we took a trip to the pumpkin farm! This is our second year going to the same farm! They have a bunch of animals to pet, with each paid admission you get to pick a pumpkin out of the pumpkin patch and take it home, the kids get a pony ride and you get a hayride! It was fun! This year Payton was a little more adamant about petting the animals. Last year he would go up to them right away and touch them. His favorite things about the pumpkin farm were the tractors that they have all over the farm for the kids to sit on, picking out a pumpkin and riding in the wheel barrel! Did I mention that it's really hard to get a picture of a 2 year old smiling?! By the time the camera actually takes the picture his "Cheese" is already over! Oh well, action shots are the best anyway..right?! The pumpkin patch Payton found his pumpkin! Ryan and Payton riding in the wheel barrel with the pumpkins! Running! The hayride...notice the New Holland tractor:) Close up of daddy and Payton! Waiting for the hayride to begin! Petting the calf. She was born October 1! Petting the baby bunny! (My favorite) Watching the baby pigs play in the mud! Petting the mule

Petting the horse with Uncle Bubba Baby pigs eating from their mom! Petting a pony!

Chloe the cow! Auntie Dawn holding a chicken! A tractor!

Petting goats!

Wedding Weekend

This last weekend we were invited to 2 of our friends wedding in Sun Prairie! We had a blast. We met my parents there and they babysat Payton while we were at the wedding! It was nice to see them, for the short time that we did, and we know Payton had fun with them as usual. The wedding was great. Jeanelle (the bride) looked beautiful! I love their story because they went to the same high school but never hung out. They met again when they were in the Army in Kuwait and fell in love! What a story! I met Nate and Nell when I was in college. Jeanelle and Katie are really good friends and Nell, Katie and one of my Meghan friends all lived together. We were backyard neighbors when I lived with Hannah and a different one of my Megan friends on 4th avenue! So we've all had some great times together. It was so nice to see those girls again and have fun like we did in our college days...that have passed us by! These girls are some of my best friends and we always say that the best thing about the YMCA is that it brought us together...(Megan Nugent and I have been friends since 7th grade, but Katie, Meghan, Megan and I all worked at the Y together and that's how we all met!) Anyways..that's our touching story of how we got to be best friends...hehe! But I've gone through some of my best and worst times with these girls! The wedding also got me excited for our wedding! It also reminded me how much I have to do. Right now we're working on getting addresses! It's going quite well. Payton was sick last week. He was running a fever and feeling like crap. We took him in and they couldn't find anything so used their "it's viral" diagnosis. (I hate that) But I think he's finally feeling better, as of yesterday he seems completely back to normal! This weekend we're taking our 2nd annual trip to the pumpkin farm! And next week Thursday we're leaving for a 4 day trip to Stevens Point, I'm so excited! Lots of family and fun! Meghan, Katie, Nuge and I at the wedding! (Katie was a bridesmaid) Josh and I:) We're next! The beautiful bride and groom having their first dance!