I feel like it has been a thousand years since my last post. This has been a really busy summer and when I wasn't busy I was sucking up all the time I could with Ken and Tristan. I just couldn't bring myself to go sit in the basement and blog, or anything on the computer for that matter. It doesn't help that I am on a computer 40 hours during the week for work. If I had a laptop it would be a bit easier. So that's my story and I am sticking to it!

So, it's Fall now. Are you excited? I am ecstatic. I am not really a big summer person. Not a fan of the heat. (Aunt Margie and Uncle Charlie will contest to this from the summer I spent complaining in Disney World in August!) Not that we had much heat this summer. I do love the fall though. I love the cool air and the way the air smells and the beauty of the leaves changing. Something about looking out my window doing the dishes and seeing the yellow leaves blow around is so serene to me. Most people probably think I'm crazy and want the summer back but I love the fall. The season that brings holidays and love. Which brings me to the holidays. I know most people are dreading the holidays but I can't really tell you how excited Ken and I are for the holidays. We talk and anticipate it all the time these days. This is a very exciting holiday season for us this year since Tristan is a year and a half now (gasp!), and we are now in a new house and a new neighborhood. We are excited to decorate our new dwelling inside and out and have Tristan help us, and make yummy, sugary, fattening holiday baked goods. I am excited to have family and friends over for gatherings and to bundle Tristan up to make a snow man during the first big snow. These are things many are dreading but something I am more than ready and excited for.

Stats: Tristan had his 18 month apt on 9/27/09 (Aunt Margie's birthday! Spent her birthday in beautiful Italy!) He is 21lbs 3 oz and 31in. The little guy hasn't grown much at all in the past few months but the doctor says he is doing well. Is it weird that he looks so much bigger to me? He is truly amazing though. He isn't talking a whole lot yet (well he is in his own little language) but I know he will be saying tons of words any day now. He loves to mock everything we do and it cracks us up. The nurse was surprised when I said he sleeps 10-12 hours straight through. I deserve this though because he was getting up 1-4 times a night until he was a year old. He is a boy through and through. Let me tell you!! He runs everywhere, climbs on anything and everything he can find and loves to hit the cats and dog with his foam bat. If he sees a box, he is climbing or sitting in it. If he sees a dinning room chair, he is climbing under it. If he is on our bed or the couch, he is jumping on it. I love it though. Boys are too much fun. I fear though that I will have the boy who digs up snakes and bugs and brings them to me. What will I do then!

I am trying to think what else is new with us. I will probably be taking a cake decorating class soon with my friend Jen. I am so excited to do this! I have been wanting to for a really long time but the only time anyone ever has classes is during the week. My friend Jen knows someone who might have classes on Sundays. So I am just waiting on the details to get started. I will be buying a Kitchenaid mixer soon too. I am way to excited about that. Ken said I BETTER use it all the time if we spend the money on it. I definitely think I will since I am really getting into baking. Plus I wouldn't mind making some bread too. So hopefully I will have learned lots of neat techniques for the holiday season baking!

That's all that has been new with us these days. I forgot to mention Ken! He is doing great. It is football season which means fantasy football time and needless to say this is his favorite time of year. He is not doing the best in fantasy football this year but we are hoping his team will get better. We are also hoping that Tony Romo doesn't blow the season for the Cowboys. It is definitely a nail biting year for football! The end of the baseball season is getting stressful though too. The Tigers are 2 games up in the division and I was for sure they blew it the other night against The Twins. But they pulled it out and only have a few more games to win before clenching the division. It's exciting but we don't see them lasting too long in the playoffs. Whats your favorite team? Who are you routing for? I hope you say Dallas Cowboys and Ohio State! O-HI-O!!!!!!

Ok, and now the moment you have all been waiting for. Drum roll please..... Pictures of the cutest little munchkin you ever did see. (In my eyes anyway :) I also have some below these of random summer events including my dads 50th surprise party. I can't explain how surprised he was! Anyone who knows my dad knows that it's a hard thing to do for a guy always on the go and asking questions.




P.S. I have read a blog that has touched my soul profoundly. The Sullivan Family. I ask that you pray for Sara's husband and new baby Chloe as they try to live a life without their amazing and brave mother and wife. You can read their story here. If you read the blog from the beginning of this year, I promise Sara's bravery and fight with cancer while being pregnant as well as extreme faith and love in god will touch you too. "Sara, your legacy has touched many people world wide and will continue to."