Friday, January 27, 2012

January

So I thought it'd be fun instead of updating this regularly just to do one post a month...Just Kidding! It's just not been on my mind lately. So sorry! But here's what we've been up to:

We celebrated my birthday January 10th with a SUPER yummy red velvet cake and dinner with friends. Then that Saturday, January 14th, we celebrated Wyatt's 2nd birthday with Todd and Beth and their family with pizza and cupcakes! It was fun! Wyatt got lots of fun things for his birthday (which I've only gotten halfway thru the thank you cards...getting a 2 year old to write his thank you cards is so challenging ;)  But we're almost there!

Robb has had several rides going out this month keeping him out and about with this unusally warm winter. He's been working on getting some things reorganized around the barn and a little more how he wants everything set up. It looks so good!

The horses are enjoying some time off from the crazy seasons and are getting silly. It's always fun to look out and see them playing and chasing each other around. We traded the mule for a new horse a little while back, so our new addition, Rango, is getting settled in.

We took a trip down to Kernersville to visit and catch up with everyone there. Picked up some more furniture for the house and have spent most of this week getting everything moved around and set up. Wyatt is in a big boy twin bed (soon to be bunk beds) and loving it! Cole has moved into his own room and is also apparently loving it as his sleep has improved very much. He's actually waking up laughing and happy now! Such a great, MUCH needed change for all of us :)

I think that sums up what we've been up to lately. Work has been getting busier for me with a big season getting geared up so I've been a little more tied up with that lately.

As always, we leave you with some pictures of our crew :)

Happy Friday!

Happy Birthday to me!

The boys playing

Happy Boys!

"You talking to me?"

Happy Birthday Wyatt!

Blowing out his candles all by himself!

Yay!

Ready to chow down!

Opening presents!

A shiny new tractor!!

Daddy was so excited we got more toys!

Monday, January 9, 2012

I know I know...

I haven't updated in a month, but things got a little busy around here and by the time I thought about this in the evenings, going to sleep a little earlier won. No offense. BUT, here I am and here's the latest happenings at Chunky Gal....

Robb started the month off with a trip to Denver to see his cousin, Lauren, get married. He said it was a good trip and nice to see some of the family he doesn't get to see much anymore. The wedding was nice, it just would've been nice to have some more time to visit with people and do a little site seeing, but it was a quick weekend trip out and back.

We had a great Holiday season both with family and with the business. We got to spend some quality time with both sides of the family this year instead of rushing around trying to see everyone in two days, so to me, that was a big plus and very nice. Everyone ate and was very merry :) I think Wyatt enjoyed Christmas a little more this year realizing slowly what's going on. We attempted to visit Santa...which didn't end well...the only way Wyatt would even get near Santa was to cling to me, thus Momma was in the picture with Santa. Cole didn't seem to mind ;)


Christmas Eve Wyatt fell and busted his lip...and had a very impressive puffy lip the next day for pictures and family fun.

Here are some other pictures from our Christmas adventures! :)











After Christmas we were pretty busy with things around the farm. Lots of rides in a short amount of time. But we had great customers and it was a very pleasant couple of weeks visiting with everyone on the rides. We saw a lot of familiar faces (which we always love) and some new ones as well. We're getting to the point now where we're really getting to know some of our families that are riding with us and we're seeing them grow and change. That's pretty cool :) It's always neat to me when someone comes to ride and says "You were pregnant with Wyatt the last time we were here" or "You guys had just gotten married", it's so nice that people care enough to remember those things. That means a lot!

We had a wild and crazy New Years Eve (I think we were all asleep by 10:00pm, except for Robb who did stay up to ring in the New Year).

Both boys are teething...so that's been fun for Momma and Daddy. Cole is slowly getting on a schedule and learning about sleeping when he's supposed to, not just whenever he feels like (or doesn't feel like it at 3:00am). So that's helping. Wyatt is learning a ton of new words and starting to talk all the time. He can even say Octopus and Basketball!  We're working on letters and numbers right now and he loves to count and say the alphabet. I can't believe he'll be 2 in a few days!! Where did the last 2 years go???? Both boys are growing and changing so fast!!

We'll leave you with some random pictures over the last month.

Happy Monday!!
My hot date while Robb was in Denver.

Hanging out with Daddy

Checking out the first snow of the year

Starting to explore the Jumparoo...

Learning how to play football

Sweet smile :)

Ready to go somewhere

If it's going to rain we might as well make the best of it and
enjoy the puddles!!