Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween from our family to yours!  We hope that you too had a spooky night of trick or treating!

Pumpkin Carving

Cooper and Daddy were in charge of carving the pumpkins this year.  Daddy went outside, brought one in and said here you go.  Cooper said "No way they stink!"  "You do it"  So they argued awhile on this and Cooper finally won...well sort of.  Daddy took the top of and did the scraping of the inside.

Then Cooper had to get the guts out in order for Daddy to carve the face onto it.  He did it but at an arms length away!

 












Little by little he got a little braver...

Until finally the sweatshirt came off and he got into getting the guts out!

The inside smell of a pumpkin has never been his favorite!

Who ME?

We just got home from work, and like usual, Brewer was not too happy with us because we were not going for a walk right then and there.  So he went into the living room, to what we thought anyways, to play.  We knew we were wrong when we heard an "oh, oh!" from Cooper followed by a "MOM...DAD...I didn't do it...BREWER DID!"
















Brewer found the bottle of fish food and decided to feed the fish the whole bottle of food.  It looked like a snow globe of fish food when we got into the living room!

And we were wondering what we were going to be doing this evening!!!!  Daddy had fish tank duty!

Brewer's Boo-Boo

Last Friday night, we were getting ready to go to Family Night at Pleasant Prairie School, and the boys were up on our bed.  Brewer decided to look over the edge and fell landing right on his head.  Here is a picture of his bump...this picture does not do it justice.  It is about a half dollar in diameter and about 1/2 inch high.  Then on top of his bump, he got another bump when he "attack"ed his brother landing on the same spot.  And then again on Saturday morning, Brewer and Cooper were running in circles when one switched directions and the two collided once again....in the same spot.  Really, we do watch these two!!!

Family Hayride

We went over to the tree farm on 85th Street, where they have been advertising Carmel Apples and hayrides.  For something different, we gave them a try.  We had a great hayride out into their tree farm, which went all the way out to Hwy 165.  Grandma and Grandpa Beck came along, and they took this family picture of us...thank you! 

PS.  The Carmel Apples are to die for...yummy!

Brewer went to see Dr. Gerlach on Friday for his two year check up.  He weighed in at 28 pounds and is 35 inches tall.  Dr. Gerlach was impressed with his speech and his overall growth.  She said that his height growth has tapered off, but his weight is continuing to grow.  After he had two shots, she said he doesn't need to come back until next year...like that will happen!

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?

I see a two year old smiling at me! Today was Brewer's Birthday Party! Grandma Maria, Grandpa and Nana, Grandma and Grandpa, Great Grandma Rognstad, Papa and Gg, Auntie Sue and Nicole stopped by to help us celebrate Brewer's birthday! We had all of the colors of Brown Bears friends and animals of all sorts around for us to see.

Our Birthday cake was an amazing 3D Brown Bear and he was just as yummy to eat! Thank you Ms. Kim!

Brewer got some awesome gifts...a ride on four-wheeler, a bath toy, color book and crayon, a couple of outfits, books, and a bounce house! Life can not get any better for this two year old! Happy Birthday Brew!

Inproper Supervision of Child

On this beautiful Saturday afternoon, Brewer and Buster were playing outside in the backyard like they normally do. It is nothing unusual for the two of them to be out back by themselves since they are completely fenced in by the fence. All is safe.

Daddy is in the kitchen, Mommy is in the living room cleaning for the party and Cooper is helping out by vacuuming the hall and bathroom. Daddy hears an unusual noise. Runs back inside to get the camera to capture this picture of Brewer....playing in the dirt.





The video is priceless, but won't upload at the moment. Brewer went straight to the bathtub from here...

Happy 2nd Birthday Brewer!

Today we had a Mommy and Brewer day to start the celebration of Brewer's Birthday. After we dropped off Cooper at school, we went over to Papa and Gg's house to visit. Brewer had fun eating cereal and playing with the toys. Then we ran a few errands before going home for lunch and rest.
Today was an early release for Cooper too! After we got back to the van, we went to pick out pumpkins at Stein's. Cooper and Brewer had a blast picking out their own pumpkins. Brewer just ran around yelling pumpkins to anyone and everyone present.

Brewer wasn't too sure about blowing out his candle, but let us all know that it was hot. He tried, but he was not blowing strong enough!

He just wanted to know when he could get to his ice cream!

And he was not done, until he said he was done...licking the cup clean!

Happy Birthday Brew!

Character Award

Cooper received a Character Award today in gym class because Ms. Uttech caught him doing good and using his manners! Now his name is placed into a drawing to have lunch with the principal! We are very proud of Mr. Cooper!!

Buster

Our puppy is getting bigger! Daddy took Buster to the vet last Thursday and Buster is now 12.3 pounds! We are thinking that there is a grow button he pushes every time that he goes into his kennel!

Mr. Sun

Brewer has been loving Mr. Sun! Here he is singing Mr. Sun on the way from Crivitz to Green Bay! Okay...so it's more of mom signing than anything:)

Weekend in Green Bay

On September 25th, we made a trip up to Green Bay/Crivitz for Uncle Paul's Memorial Service. The first part of our journey took us up to Crivitz for a Memorial Service up at the cabin of Debbie and Al, who were neighboring to that of Helen and Paul. Cindy and Fred planned a memorable service for their Dad, and then followed through with their parents wishes to be placed in the woods up behind their old home.
There were a lot of memories shared that day. One of them with the Beck family was a little walk to the trailer next to Debbie and Al's, where Karen and Steve had once owned. Here Karen is sitting in the same spot that her Mom once sat for a similar picture. It was fun to listen to Randy, Kris, and Andrea reminisce about what they did remember of their time in Crivitz.


We also found the outhouse with a painted wall on it. The wall is the original wall that Grandma Anderson painted. We are now in the process have making something from this wall (actually John and Andrea are).



After we were done in Crivitz, we drove back to Green Bay and checked into the hotel where we were going to be staying. Then we went over to Gary and Barb's for dinner. Great times with everyone.

We also received good news...Gabby is going to be a big sister!