October Recap

For some reason I just haven't been in the mood to blog lately, nor has there been a whole lot going on to write about.  The month of October was spent finishing up the 2011 race season, turning the big "30" for me, turning the big "1" for Brae, a small 4-wheeling trip, halloween, and house cleaning. 

We put our house up for sale two weeks ago (with mixed emotions on if we really want to leave this place or not).  But we found 8.5 acres not far from here and we have needed more land (room for all our crap/toys) for years. The house needs some remodeling, but we love the location/land and it's potential! If our house doesn't sell, we will look at tearing down our garage and building a decent shop (and continue to store stuff at my dads and Shane's grandpas :).  We go back and forth on what the best decision is, but truth is, we will be happy wherever we are!

 We celebrated Braelyn's birthday this past weekend.  She got lots of nice gifts, and by the looks of it, enjoyed her cake!  And oddly, the Vikings won so that made it an even better day for those who continued to watch them after all those losses! 

 We got her a little 4-wheeler for birthday and she knows how to run the throttle, but has no clue how the steering works. So when she crashes into a wall, she keeps it pinned while the tires spin.  Soon she'll be riding with the big boys!

And for Halloween Mason wanted to be a cop (in the worst way), so we forced Brae to be the little Jailbird! Halloween always seems like such a fun and festive ocassion, but this year was pure stress (for Shane and I).  Braelyn whined every time we buckled her up, my shoe broke at the 2nd stop so I went barefoot (yes I was wearing flip flops because it was warm out!), and Mason never wanted to leave the houses when it was time to get going.  We only went to 6 houses, but I was exhausted at the end of the night.  And now we have a crap ton of candy (stuff that the kids got and leftovers from what I set outside for kids who came to our house) that I don't know what to do with.  Shane says "duh, eat it!" Well, Mason's teeth don't need it, nor does it need to sit there and tempt me everytime I walk by the bowl.  And the moms of the daycare kids probably don't appreciate their kids coming home with sugar highs! So if you missed trick or treating, you can come to our house, or it's going in the garbage.

Braelyn likes to grab things out of the fridge when I have it open, and this is how she eats the oranges! If I try to peel it she screams, and she sure is proving that girls are so much more whinier than boys.  But thankfully she's too cute to even care!! :)