Holiday Catch Up (and a BIG Birthday)

So, I have been offline for a while and now with the new year fast approaching I find myself trying to play a little catch up.

HALLOWEEN:

We attended our church's Trunk of Treat for Halloween and Seamus had a blast! He had just started walking and that evening he really took off. He was so excited to see everyone and make sure everyone saw him :)

Here are some pictures from that night:

I had every intention of making a very cute Charlie Brown costume for my little man's perfect Charlie Brown shaped head, but alas my mom found this skeleton outfit and when we put it on him we knew this was his costume and he ROCKED it :)

THANKSGIVING:

We went with some of Chad's family to the Hemlock Inn for Thanksgiving. The Inn is owned by his Grandfather and currently run by his Aunt and Uncle. We were married there (July will be 5 years WOW) and enjoy the time that we get to spend with wonderful family and good friends. The food at the Inn is AMAZING and Seamus enjoyed getting to try lots of new things.

Here are a few pictures from that trip:

CHRISTMAS:

OK, so I really haven't gone through any Christmas pictures yet so I will get those up at some point. We did our usual and traveled to both mine and Chad's parents houses on Christmas morning. We also all had dinner together on Christmas Day night (my parents, Chad's parents and two of his sisters and their families. It was a lot of fun to have everyone together and Seamus was worn out by the end of the day.

And now the BIG ONE:::

Shay's 1st BIRTHDAY:

Thankfully my college roommate came to visit and helped me get everything together for the party. The party was Robot themed with a lot of Toy Story also. I made a robot cake and a cake for Shay to have for himself. We had a great time and took a nice nap at the end of the day.

Here are pictures from the party:

So that should catch everything up through the end of the year. We are spending the New Year in our "new" basement, those pictures to come soon.

I am hoping to update at least once a week in 2011!! Happy New Year!!

I know its a little late but I wanted to get up at least one picture of Seamus from our trip to the pumpkin patch. We took a trip his cousins to the pumpkin patch at Due West Methodist Church and Seamus got to pick out a pumpkin. He also had a lot of fun walking around and banging on all of the large pumpkins that there were.

My fall classes are winding down so I hope that I can get some more pictures up and write a little more while on my break!

Photo Hunt

I have decided to attempt the October Photo Hunt. I read about this on Meredith's blog, La Buena Vida , and decided to give it a try.

Several months back I made a feeble attempt at 12 weeks to Better Photography, by feeble I mean I read each week but really only took and posted one set of pictures.

Since then life has become even more hectic with baby, work, and school but I find myself having my camera with me more and using it to help myself remember to slow down and enjoy life.

I work with 2 year olds so I get to take a lot of fun pictures and Seamus has gotten A LOT of personality so I enjoy getting to take more and more pictures of him.

I am hoping that by doing this challenge that I will CHALLENGE myself to take and post some pictures and actually finish a challenge.

Everyone should sign up! It will be fun to see how everyone interprets the categories (there are 20 total) and its seems to be a lot of fall stuff and I know how much we all love fall!!

More New York Pictures

View from Mossy Bank

Seamus meeting some horses

Seamus with Uncle Bob and Cooper

More Horses

Seamus waving Bye to the horses

New York New York

Labor day weekend we took a fun family trip to visit my Dad's family in upstate

New York.

We (me, Chad, my dad and Seamus) loaded up the car, yes the car, and drove

14 hours

to New York. We drove through the night so that Seamus could sleep as much of the trip as possible. It worked. He slept the whole night, which was the bulk of the drive, and we arrived about 10am on Friday. It was a great trip and Seamus got to meet his Great Grandparents (on my dad's side). We got to visit all of my dad's siblings (he is one of 7) and Seamus got to meet lots of family!

Seamus playing with Great Grandpa Wheeler

(who is almost 90)

Seamus with Great Grandma Wheeler

Handsome Boy at Mossy Bank over looking Bath, NY

Our Little Family at Mossy Bank

The Boys

(Grandpa, Chad and Seamus)

at Mossy Bank

Time With Family

After a lazy Saturday....

We took a trip to Chad's sister's house to have a cookout and enjoy some family time. Chad's parents joined us as well and a great time was had by all.

Seamus got to play with two of his cousins.

All the cousins have been asking since he was born when they were going to be able to play with him. Well, he is big enough and mobile enough now that he got to have a little taste of playing with them while we all watched and laughed.

Seamus started the visit by giving Bucky a wave, and hitting him in the face in the process. Seamus thinks it is a lot of fun to "play" with faces.

Seamus' cousin JD LOVES to play with him. Since he was little and used to stay at their house JD has enjoyed taking care of Shay.

He was very excited to finally really get to play with him.

He thought it would be fun to wrestle with Shay, I don't think he realized how HEAVY Shay was going to be when he pulled him on top of him.

Seamus had an AWESOME time playing and eating hamburger and homemade peach ice cream that Chad's sister Jennifer made. I didn't get too much because Shay REALLY liked it so I let him eat most of mine :) It was YUMMY!

Weekends with family are wonderful. We are so glad to have family so close and that Shay is going to grow up playing with his cousins.

New Blog

I have started a new blog about weight loss for anyone who wants to take a peek! I will still post all of our family updates here!

http://upandrunning576.blogspot.com/2010/08/up-and-running.html