Push-ups, Pine Cones and Basketball

With some of Ben’s birthday money he decided to get these:

Push-up things. He really likes them though. Thanks Dad!

For family night we made Pine Cone Ornaments! Here is each of ours:

Can you guess who mine is supposed to be?

Ben also got some KU basketball tickets from work. We went with two of his coworkers, Eric and Charlie. Eric is the one with the beard and Charlie, the only one of us sporting an actual KU shirt.

We were up in the nosebleed seats but the fieldhouse was small enough that you still could see everything going on on the court. It was a fun game. KU dominated Pittsburg, I believe the final score was 103 – 45.

Ahh the student sections! I do kind of feel sad that we never experienced college sports. The students were so funny to watch with all the superstitious things they did. There was a chick sitting in front of us who must have attended KU because she kept doing the same stuff. Every time there was a big shot the students would raise there arms and make an “O” with thier fingers. She kept doing that and so I kept missing the cool shots because she totally blocked my view. The curse of being short.

We left with about 4 minutes left in the game since it wasn’t a close one and we had to drive across town to pick Asher up. Our friends who watched him have cats so were were expecting his eyes to be a little puffy, seeing how we all seem to be allergic to cats, but WOW they were really puffy and red! I was really surprised. I’m sure it didn’t help that he loves animals and was petting and chasing them all night. (And then rubbing his eyes.) I didn’t think to get a pictures. It was late and I was much more worried about giving him a bath and to bed than pictures. His left eye is still a little swollen this morning but he’s a happy guy. “Cats fun!” is what he says.

 

 

28 Weeks

My sister in law Tammy really wanted to see an updated picture of the baby belly. So here you go! Just for you Tammy!

 

I had to include the second picture because it is too funny. Asher kept jumping in my pictures. Most of them he just held still with his back to the camera. But once the camera went off he’d go find something else to do. I’d set it up again and he’s run back to be in the picture. He already has picture-envy with the baby! What does that mean for the future?

 

Happy Halloween

We hope everyone had a happy and safe Halloween! For the actual festivities we went to a Trunk or Treat at our church house and then went to a few places on our street. We have a very dark street and didn’t end up with too many trick or treaters. We also got home about 7:30pm a lot of trick or treaters seemed to be done about then… at least on dark streets! I forgot to bring the camera to the trunk or treat but here are some pictures after we got home.

Ben (an English Postman) and Asher (a Pirate) coming home after trick or treating at a few houses on the street.

As soon as Asher got to the front step he wanted to show me the suckers he got. He was really excited.

Asher looking at his “treasures.”

Trying to open candy… any candy.

-Meagan: vampire, Asher: Pirate, Ben: English Postman-

I made Asher’s Halloween costume, almost entirely out of extra fabric I already had. The construction was… lacking. I was hand-stitching with a deadline. I also made a cute sword for Asher, unfortunately he wasn’t a big fan of actually carrying it around. Oh well. It was a fun Halloween and Ben was happy in the end that he dressed up.

 

Fall Colors and a Birthday!

First fall colors…

Alright! Now most of you know Ben recently celebrated a birthday.  Here are some pictures of him opening presents and his cake. Also, keep in mind that Ben had just gotten home (on his birthday) helping someone move. He didn’t have time to shower, etc. before Asher needed to go down for a nap.

Ben wanted a vanilla cake with cool whip for frosting and grated chocolate on top. I also decided to add some chopped chocolate as well. It was SO good! This cake is now in my top 5 of favorites.

Asher sneaking some frosting while I was getting the chocolate ready.

Now some video fun! Asher and me singing Happy Birthday to Ben:

Asher opening his present from Grandma Tannis and Grandpa Joe:

 

Cool Cookies and Late-Season Watermelon

My friend (and VT companion) April made these totally amazing cookies, can you tell she’s a professional baker? She gave them to us ’cause she’s awesome like that. But she also sells them. Anyone who lives locally and would like some let me know, she also does “Grumpy Snowmen” in November and December. They are adorable and are really yummy. They actually taste like you’re eating donuts! Crazy but true.

Tuesday as I was walking into the house I noticed we had two little watermelons on our watermelon plant. Apparently with the sudden warming trend we’ve had they decided to grow. Too bad it is cold and rainy now. A good reminder that next year we need to plant the garden (a lot) earlier next year.

 

Pumpkin Patch

We went to the pumpkin patch last week, when it was super cold rather than this week when it was much warmer – go figure. We went with some friends of ours. It was great to have friends with us.

We saw chickens…

Some sort of colorful pheasant…

Cows…

Went for a hayride…

And hiked around the pumpkin patch…

It was great fun, and I’ll be sure to get some pictures of the pumpkins we actually picked. Sorry the pictures aren’t that great, this big pregnant lady just isn’t too camera-happy/diligent these days. At least I remembered the camera!

 

Miniature and Stick Horses

Friday we went to the library, they had 2 miniature horses for kids to feed and pet. They also had an activity where you could make a stick horse, we just couldn’t pass it up! The horse trainer is in several of the pictures, she was nice enough to help Asher out while I took these pictures.

I love how Asher only rides his stick horse with the head pointing towards him! Haha. I guess he likes to look at him.

Recently Asher has narrowed the kinds of foods he eats, and we have been baffled at what we can do about it. Pizza has also fallen into the “not eat” category (he loved pizza not too long ago.) Well we learned this weekend that Asher only likes “naked” pizza as Ben calls it. He wants all, I repeat, ALL the topping scrapped off. Then he’ll eat and eat and eat. (If you notice, the part of the pizza that Asher is eating the toppings have all been pulled off.)

 

24 1/2 Weeks

The Belly:

 

Lunch with Daddy and More

Last week Asher and I took Ben some lunch at work. Here are two pictures of Ben and Asher. Asher had sticky peanut butter and jelly hands and Ben was trying to stop Asher from putting his arm around him but Asher was determined.

General Conference was great! We really enjoyed watching it on our computer. By the end of the last session my guys were fading a little. We also got the living room painted between sessions on Saturday -whew.

Yesterday Asher had a playdate with his friend Clark at the park. It was great fun and they loved it. They wanted to “swing high” then they climbed, slid down the slides, ran to the baseball field, played in the park grill pit (yuck) and ate gram crackers on the way home. Thanks for playing Clark!

 

The Living room is Painted!

We did it, with a little help. We got the living room painted this weekend. It turned out very nice I think. If you are a regular checker of the blog you probably saw several weeks ago my paint-swatched wall and me trying to decide what color, we chose the darker color.

View of windows from hall:

View from windows to hall:

View of entryway:

View from entryway into living room:

Now we just need to remove tape and move furniture back in. No more painting this room, for a long long time!