Grandma Leslie and James came out to visit us before Halloween and oh boy were we spoiled, and had so much fun! Laine and Amy were talking about Grandma coming for weeks and so we thought they would never come, but they sure did! They went to the zoo with us and took us to Valla's and Laine and Amy got to stay up late some nights and eat popcorn and cookies with Grandma and James and you can't beat that :-) Needless to say Amy and Laine were heartbroken when they realized that after saying goodbye to Grandma before church that she really wasn't going to be there that day or the next or even the next when they kept asking. Amy was pretty smitten with James and Laine sure loves his Grandma so we sure love when they come calling. It's so nice to have family visit!
My family is so cute and I just love these pictures! Laine was so excited to get to go hunting with Daddy and Amy can't get over how exciting the noise of a duck call is :-) Chad goes hunting a lot these days, but mostly in the morning long before Laine is awake so when Chad went at night and invited Laine he was certainly stoked! As you can see Laine was all for the being outside and he loves his fake shot gun Chad got him so he could shoot too, but didn't want anything to do with the dead ducks... I knew I raised him well! :-) Just as a side note we did go buy him his own camo boots after this so he wouldn't have to wear hello kitty boots around all the time, but "hey, jack" that's all we had.
My goodness life is just super fun right now! Laine and Amy are the best kids ever and we get to have lots of family fun. The picture with all of us at the top is from our camping trip we went on to Memphis Lake where we got to roast marshmellow's and eat some oatmeal and have to good quality family time... Also Chad got to fish while the kids and I spotted lots of frogs (mostly their eyes) in the water. As for what we do on a daily basis I'd say these pictures give a pretty good idea... Amy talks a lot and can say everything mostly repeating right now and mimicking, but will say stuff when she needs to. Laine is completely potty trained now for a little while and if he has an accident like in these pictures he has to throw away a binky (he doesn't like that) and not get to replace it. I like this method because I'm solving two problems with this solution. We like to play with a lot of other kids here at VG and these are Laine's friends Cody, Gwen and Nora.
