Vroom, Vroom

New Hope Valley Railway

We were able to go for a ride on the steam train located in New Hill, NC at the New Hope Valley Railway a few weekends ago. Carter is completely obsessed with trains, but fun was had by all of us. Even Camden enjoyed it. The weather was beautiful. It was just a perfect day!

Visit to Nanna and Papa's House

The boys and I traveled to my parents' house in the mountains of east Tennessee right before Halloween. While we were there, my sister Heather and her son Gabrielle came for a visit. It was a full house, but still lots of fun!

Papa set up his choo-choo train for the boys to enjoy.

The two little monkeys!

Mom putting the Ergo to good use.

My brother David and his friend Kaitlin.

Do you think we should take him to the dentist?

The boys "fighting" over the Lightning McQueen bed that Nanna had for Carter.
They loved it!

Camden won! This round at least...

Ahhhhhhhhhh, So Nice

I am loving life right now for a few reasons. First, we got our carpets cleaned yesterday. I mean REALLY cleaned. The guys that came from G&J Carpet Cleaners were serious carpet cleaners. They made me quickly realize that the last guy that came to clean our carpets was just doing so as a hobby on the side. The guys at G&J meant business. They came in and moved all of our furniture and left the corners of everything (including changing tables and train tables) up on Styrofoam blocks. It was incredible. Our carpet, which is over ten years old by the way, actually looked NEW when they left. They even combed it with a special comb to fluff the fibers back up. They were here for quite a while and still charged under $200 for the whole house.

Second, Dan has a patient that cleans houses. He had her come to our house this morning to clean and boy did she clean. She showed up with four other people with ladders, mops, buckets, and they were here for four hours! And no, my house wasn't THAT nasty, they just cleaned THAT well. They cleaned my silverware drawers, the inside of the fridge, all of the appliances, light fixtures, windows, blinds, pictures... I mean there isn't a speck of dirt or dust in this whole house! It was kind of funny, before I even had time to get the boys' shoes on, one lady had her head in the oven already, and there were two ladies cleaning the upstairs windows. Ahhhhhh, it's so nice. Thank you Honey, you are the best! I feel like I can breathe again. I wish we could do this every month! Dan said maybe once a year. :)-

Halloween Pictures

Halloween

Carter LOVES Halloween this year. He just can't get enough! He asks to go to Target and Wal-mart so we can look at decorations and hollers from the backseat of the car every time we pass a house with Halloween decor . While we were visiting with my family last week, we drove by an old cemetery complete with rotting, crooked, and scary tombstones. My Mom and I heard Carter shout from the backseat, "Decorations!!!". We didn't know what he was talking about until we saw the cemetery. It was too funny.

Uncle Jeff and Aunt Chrissy came over tonight to surprise us with shirts for the boys that Chrissy had made. Carter wanted to wear his to bed! He loves it, thanks Chrissy!!!

Carter wanted to go for a walk every night just so we could walk around and see all the Halloween decorations in our neighborhood. So, I decided to create a graveyard for him in our front yard complete with a strobe light. He has no idea it's "scary".

We went to Hillridge Farms in Youngsville, NC to enjoy a hayride and to pick a pumpkin.

They had a HUGEmongous slide there that Carter went down a dozen times with Grammie.

Our favorite part of all was the GIANT sand box made with corn instead of sand. It was so much fun! We were picking corn out of all sorts of nooks and crannies for days afterward.

Carter helping us carve his "very scary" pumpkin. When we were done, he was disappointed because "the face was nice and not too scary".

Cam Cam Walking

The Little Gym

I am part of a stay at home Mom's meet-up group in my area, and there are scheduled events everyday! Last week, we had the chance to try out our local Little Gym. The boys loved it! I need to sign them up for classes so we can go every week.

Camden is WALKING!

Now that we are all starting to feel better, I must get this posted! This entry is L O N G overdue but Camden officially has his two front teeth (and the two on the side for a grand total of four top teeth!), and he is WALKING!
He has been taking a few steps here and a few steps there for a while now, but four days ago he took around 8 steps before he decided crawling was more fun. He was standing with a toy in his hand and while looking down at it, just started walking. I don't think he even knew what he was doing. But, now he is walking for stretches at a time. He acts like he gets bored with it, and starts crawling again.
Carter likes to crawl around the floor with him, so he probably thinks crawling is more fun! I will post pictures of our new upright biped soon.

We Are All Sick!

Serious prayers are needed. Camden is still throwing up on day four and now Dan is sick. This intestinal/stomach bug is a doosey. I have had a pretty hard time taking care of two sick kids while getting sick myself. Thank the Lord Carter is feeling better. This is NOT pretty.