My growing baby!

My sweet baby chase...he sleeps soooo much! He must be my child, because i require alot of sleep too. This sweet boy goes to bed at 7:30-8:00pm and wakes up at 7:30/8:00 ish. Then he goes down for his morning nap at 9:15 and sleeps until 11:45. Then down he goes again at 1:15 until 3:45(mond, wedn, friday...when seth has school) or 4:00-4:30 (tuesday's and thursdays)! This means he is getting total of 17+ hours of sleep in 24 hours of a day! Man i love that he is such a good sleeper, but it does make it hard to get out of the house. It must take alot of work to grow up :)

I love you chase!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Seth soccer team all did skeleton faces for their halloween game...that Seth scored his 1st goal in!!!! (first for any of our boys, and it was pouring rain almost the whole game)







































Chase got a hold of a smarties package and was sucking on it so hard to get something.

This year blake was a scientist/inventor/Flint (from the movie cloudy with the chance of meatballs) seth was buzz lightyear, chase was a skunk, and i was a princess. i made my skirt out of 2+ bolts of toole. It was so fun to wear and all the little girls at the parties and trick or treating loved it! The boys even carved their own pumpkins this year. they drew the faces and blake didn't have ANY help (we helped seth w/ the knife) Well, we all had a good time...here are the pics.

THANKS KATIE!!!

Here are some of our AMAZING family pics for the year!!! Much thanks to my talented sis-in-law!! Thanks again!

My Grandpa's funeral

We went to my grandpa's funeral on Oct. 2nd. and all went somewhat well. It was an amazing service. He was in the Air Force so he received a full military service. They did the gun salute, the presenting of the flag (which was so cool! and i was sitting right behind my grandma so i heard what they say too). the other neat thing is that my uncle found an aircraft cylinder to bury him in. It weighed 65 lbs. and the cemetery said it was the coolest thing they had ever seen as an urn. Then they bolted chains to it so the men could have something to hold on to to carry it in. Oh and we were also led in by percession. There were about 15 motorcycles that took us through town to the veterans cemetery. I will miss my grandpa greatly but i am so glad he was so honored all the way to the end. We love you grandpa Al!!

So the part that didn't go so well, is that an hour before the service chase grabbed my mom's straightening iron and it burned his hand so bad it actually stuck for a second. i ripped it off and threw it across the room. he burned each finger tip and some of his palm. it was hurting him so bad he was uncontrollably screaming the hole day. so Ryan didn't get to see the service. he walked chase in the stroller around the cemetery during the service. so once we got to my g-ma's house her friend sally said "oh i have some antibiotic burn cream, I'll go get it" with in 5 min. of putting it on he was back to his normal self. *mind you that was after asking all the fireman that were there (since my g-ma is a volunteer firefighter) if they had anything to treat burns. and they all said NO. What??!!! i thought for sure they would of had something. So no we are 2 weeks after that and all the blisters have popped and are healing. He continues to pick at the loose skin and it is just a little scary looking. i felt so bad for my little man.

anyways, here's a pic of the boys at my g'ma's w/ some model airplanes that were used for the tables that g-ma bangerter made and the rest are chase's hand. there was a photographer at the service so i will post those pics when we get them.

Cuddle Bunny

chase is so cute. we put the big kids to bed at 6:30 and then we play and spend time with chase until he goes to bed at 7:30. His new favorite thing to do is sit with ryan and snuggle while they watch football. if you change the channel or don't have the TV on he doesn't sit nearly as long. but when you put football on he gets a big smile and snuggles in tight. it is adorable. i have to say i am a little jealous because he definitely likes to cuddle with ryan more than me. but he still knows when he wants something to come to mama! :)

Soccer, Soccer, Soccer!

Well, soccer season has begun! Ryan is coaching seth's team this year. They are so cute, it is all their first year playing and Ryan's first year coaching. So if the games overlap i have been taking chase with me to blake's and ryan and seth go to theirs. The practices are at the same time too, tues. and thurs. 5-6:15 at 2 different fields. But at least we are done with it at the same time i guess. I have some cute pics of the season already. I am proud of my boys and am hoping to not be the crazy soccer mom who screams on the side line. We'll see if tomorrow is better because i was screaming last week :0

btw....Blake's team is the Pirates! Seth's team is the Hot Rods '10!

Banana Bread

so i was making banana bread with seth on monday and all was well until...
i had my top cupboard door open and i bent down and stood up and hit the top of my head right on the sharp corner of the door (and our corners are SHARP!) and immediately fell to the floor. I could hear seth saying "what happened" over and over and over again! But i couldn't respond or even open my eyes. I guess i hit on just the right spot and got a HUGE bump like on the cartoons and immediately felt nauseous and horrible. But as the day went on i just got worse and worse and the next day i felt even worse. I could barely stay awake, couldn't move quickly, or even bend down with all the pressure i had on my head already it felt like it was going to explode! So i talked to my mom since she is a nurse, and she said that those are all classic signs of a concussion. So since i have busy boys and no time for anything else of course i didn't go to the doc but i am just trying to ride it out. Today i am doing a bit better i can actually focus (enough to write this) i am not in quite as much of a "fog" and have been able to get a few things done. Needless to say that was the most dangerous loaf of banana bread i have ever made!
And on a side note...i am a little worried that if i ever needed to have seth call 911 for me i would probably just die on the floor. when i finally came to, he was just standing there staring at me still saying "what happened".

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY CHASE!!!

My sweet baby turned 1! It was a little sad but mostly exciting! The big boys were so excited that he is 1 now...now he can do so much more :)

We had a big birthday party last saturday for him, he LOVED the snow cone machine!!! He must of had at least 20 snow cones of his own, then if he saw ryan or i with one he would run over and want to be held, then ask for bites. It was so cute! **notice chase eating his birthday cake...his foot was holding the plate steady so he could grab handfulls of cake.

Then on his actuall b-day which was wednesday the 8th i made him an apple cinnamon muffin (his favorite) w/ frosting on top. He was so excited....so i did a little photo shoot with it.

I love chase so much....i am so grateful he is part of our family! He is always so happy, and easy going. He loves to be held, play peek-a-boo, play with balls, but most of all he is defiently a nature lover! He could go for walks all day long, either in the stroller or now that he is walking he loves to explore on his own too. If we leave the the sliding glass door open and have the screen shut he has learned how to open the screen on his own so he can go play out back. He really just loves playing in water or whatever he can get his hands on outside. He is defiently an observer too, from the first day he was born i noticed it. I would walk him around the hospital halls at 3:00 am to stretch my legs etc. after the c-sec and he would just perk right up, and watch the lights pass, look at the carts, doors, nurses anything he could. He loved it and still loves to just get out!

I love you Chase and i look forward to watching you grow and explore! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!