My Mr Q's 3rd birthday party...

I got up this morning and started working on Quintin's birthday cake for his party. He wanted BUGS on his cake, so this is what we came up with, and also some party pictures:













The next time I post, it should be pictures of Quintin's new baby sister. Peightin Linn is scheduled to arrive sometime Monday, December 8th. Tammy is to be at the hospital at 8am for her scheduled c-section. Jen is coming down Sunday night and is going to Walla Walla with us. I am taking Quintin and he will stay with me while she is in the hospital. I am excited and happy for them.

Til later...

Great weekend...

Last weekend I gave Tammy & Peightin a baby shower. It was a little crazy just before it started, due to the fact that when I went to pick up the 2 cakes from Safeway they had only decorated one of the two cakes! And it was only 1 1/2 hours before the shower was to begin. I scrambled and found some things to stick on top of it. Tammy brought over a rattle too.
Jen, Steven, Tatum, Triniti, Kaeden and Kailer all came down, so it was doubly a good weekend. Also here was Pam & Scott from Canada & Mom & Dad. It was a fun filled crazy weekend. After the baby shower we had 28 people here for a BBQ. It turned out to be such a good weekend.
This is the diaper cake I made for Tammy & Peightin. I made the 2 receiving blankets that are with it too (Below it and wrapped around the bottom layer:

The cakes:

We played a fun diaper game...you melt different types of chocolate candy bars in diapers and then people have to smell them and try to guess what type they are. I tried to use harder ones on some. I used whatchamacallit, reeses peanut butter cup, uno, 5th avenue & butterfinger. It was Very funny watching people smell them, and Jen even asked if she could lick one. Ha ha:

One of the outfits from Gramma Vicki & Grandpa Mel:

Here are some pic's of the fun-The kids helped Grandpa rake leaves...and then they just had to jump into them...

Grandpa Mel & Kai checking out the specials in the paper:

Kailer's cast:

Great Grandpa Curt, Triniti and Kaeden playing a new dice game called LCR (left, center, right)

My little man...toothless Kaeden. He really can ask Santa for a front tooth...and if he hurries and loses the other one, he can ask for 2 front teeth

Mr Q showing me his "toddler" shirt rules:

Tatum in the tree:

Triniti in the leaves:

My poor little Kai Guy...

Kailer was coming down some steps in their back yard when his foot slipped and he broke his right tibia (the large bone in his leg). The Dr said it was a spiral fracture. Fortunately he didn't break it all the way through. When he first did it, they just wrapped it with a splint and sent him home. Then when he went to his Dr last Tuesday they casted it. He will be going back next week to have it x-rayed again and then re-casted for a while longer. He still isn't walking on it, but Jen said he is sure getting around scooting everywhere.

They are coming down this Friday so they can go go Tammy & Peightin's baby shower and to Lexus' birthday party. I am excited to see them.

I will also get to see Kaeden with his top front tooth missing too. He just lost it this last week. Pretty soon he might be able to say that all's he wants for Christmas is his 2 front teeth.

The first "splint wrap"


The cast on his little leg:


Jen giving him a bath in the sink so they could keep his cast dry:


The boys at the sink:


My Toothless little man Kaeden:



Til later...

My little Halloween gremlins...

I never tire of Halloween. Here is the pumpkin Mr. Q helped me with:


Jared & Tammy brought Quintin over to Trick-or-Treat. Q had a good time playing with a toy that Papa Mel helped him with. He was doing great, and you sure wouldn't have known he had his tonsils out just 3 days before. He was a Train conductor.







Jenny sent me pictures of her Batman and frog. Kaeden wore this frog costume when he was Kai's age.
These are pumpkins they grew...they came up voluntarily by their driveway:






My Kai Guy tuckered out:

My Little man Kaeden refueling:



Til later...

"The Great Pumpkin"...

Guess what it is...




Quintin helped me do it...




The finishing touches...



Topped off with a kiss from Daddy to Peightin Linn...




The painter and the painted...



The family, Tammy, (Peightin) Quintin & Jared...



We did Tammy's belly like a pumpkin when she was pregnant with Quintin, so had to do it again for Peightin. It is kind of crude, but was fun to do.

Til later...

The Great Pumpkin Patch...

Last week Jared & Tammy called me about 10 minutes before I was to get off of work and asked me if I wanted to go with them and Quintin to the pumpkin patch. They said the last hayride out to the pumpkin patch left at 5:30, which meant I wouldn't have time to go home and change my clothes. I knew I wouldn't be able to go over the weekend, as I was going to be gone for the weekend to a scrapbook retreat in Meacham, and then the next Friday is going to be Halloween, so I had to go then, or miss going at all. So there I was in my dress and nylons from work. It was great, as we were the only ones there, so after Q picked out his pumpkin they let him sit on the tractor and "Drive" it. He was in 7th heaven. Here are some pictures of the fun night.

Poor Mr. Q is going to have his tonsils out tomorrow, Oct 28th, so may not feel like going trick or treating this year. We will have to wait and see. I am going to go over and paint Tammy's belly like a pumpkin, like I did when she was pregnant with Quintin.










Here is a scrapbook page I did this last weekend of Mr Q sitting on a pumpkin in front of the pumpkin patch:

This picture was taken tonight. Q helped me put my pumpkin together:



Til Later...