my helper...

since daddy has been out in the field for the past couple weeks i've had to recruit a helper while i'm trying to get meals done. tregan has stepped up to the plate! he loves to sing and dance for taylor...and she LOVES it!!! taylor has also now started to babble in a whole new light! she just goes on and on...and on!

October...

So I haven't done a very good job with keeping up with the blog! So many things have come and gone that I could have posted about. So I will do just a quick recap! Of course there was Halloween...Tregan was Thomas the Tank Engine. He was very cute...and polite. We went trunk-or-treating at a local church and he had a blast. He would go up to everyone and blow his train whistle and say trick-or-treat and then thank you afterwards. I was very proud of him b/c a couple of days prior he wouldn't even mutter the words trick-or-treat! Taylor went as a little lamb...little thing slept through the whole thing though!
Tregan rode a horse for the first time and loved it....wasn't even scared which I thought he would be. He asks to do it again almost everyday!
Taylor started eating solid foods already...I don't know where the time has gone. She is growing up too quickly!
Other than that we're just enjoying fall before it gets too cold and looking forward to the holidays!

the past week or so...

So nothing too interesting has been going on...planning for the holidays has pretty much been the highlight. We did take the kiddos along with my sister-in-law and the nephews to see Disney on Ice which was pretty neat. The kids loved it...even Taylor was interested in it. That is something we'll definetly do again if it comes back to town and it proved that Tregan can sit through a 2 hour show! Our next test will come when we take him to his first movie here soon (Madagascar 2!)
Here are a couple of pictures that I liked from the past few days! OH! Taylor has her 2 bottom teeth! So that has been lots of fun! More later!

visit from pa pa & auntie maya

We had a fun week last week...pa pa and auntie maya came for a week long visit. tregan & taylor both got spoiled with lots of extra attention...and tregan still asks from them everyday. breaks my heart that we're so far away...but atleast the visits aren't too far apart.
taylor turned 4 months a couple of days ago! the time is absolutely flying by. she is already 14.1 lbs and is 25.1in long! she is growing like weed!
here are a couple of pictures from the past week or so!

Thomas the Train

This weekend we took Tregan to see Thomas the Train over in Spencer, NC. He had such a good time and was so amazed at all the trains. I think his favorite part though was riding on the train and hearing Thomas "peep". The only crummy part was that it rained the first part of the day. Hopefully we'll be able to take him back next year!

cute pics...

just thought i'd share a couple of pictures from this morning. too bad my son thinks he has to say cheese so hard that his eyes always squint!!!

life moving too fast...

I really can't believe it...I guess I blinked too long but Taylor turned 3 months this weekend. It really does seem like yesterday that Shawn & I were going to the hospital...after a long day of walking!!! It makes me a little sad knowing that all of Taylor's firsts will be our last firsts...(but not sad enough for anymore!!! are you kidding me...we don't want to be outnumbered!). Then I look at Tregan...my little man. He is growing up so fast. The other day I had to put him in some of his new fall cloths b/c it was a chilly day and he just looked so grown up. He knows his abc's and numbers to 20. He is doing awesome with being potty trained so that is a blessing...only 1 child to buy diapers for now! I'm just a lucky lady to have such a wonderful family!

family

so here is a picture of the family i snapped this afternoon. not so much the best light or anything, but it is the first one we've had done since taylor was born!

one sad thing though...i've offically joined the old person's club...i now have to wear glasses. and shawn loves to point out to me that i am old (even though i'm a week younger than him) i think he has forgotten that the wonderful army paid for him to have eye surgery. i may have to remind him!

summertime pics

here are some of my favorite pictures from the past month or so!

Trying it out!

So I decided to give the whole blogging thing a try...I thought it would be a nice way for people to check up on us since my computer time is getting limited due to a certain dynamic duo! All for now!