3 becomes 4

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Sort-of Surprise Visit!

We were very lucky to have Ryan come home this month for a TDY. It was not a surprise in the sense that we had no idea and then got a knock on our door to discover Ryan standing there, but it was a surprise in that we weren't expecting to see him until his R and R. In true military fashion this TDY was not firm until a week before it was suppose to happen and even then Ryan's flight wasn't booked until the day he was flying out. But lucky for us, it all worked out and we got to spend 9 fabulous days with him!

He was authorized a 4 day pass to tack on to a 5 day course. So he came home to VA for the 4 days. We were able to have dinner with good friends, visit with friends who just had a baby, go to a Fall Festival, have lunch with my cousin Adam, carve a pumpkin, and even have a date night in those 4 days.

Here are some pictures from the VA time:

He was so happy to see his daddy!
There wasn't any hesitation.

Hayride fun!

Hands up high! Really high!

Ollie was not a fan of the slides, but mom and dad were!

Maybe he'll like this one???
Nope.

Pumpkins!!

He loves these big orange things!

The Weeds new baby!

So glad we got the chance to meet her while Ryan was home!

Cousin Adam!

Fit some tv watching in.

Pumpkin.

Pumpkin insides!

Finished product.

And then we were off to Ohio for Ryan's course. Conveniently Ryan's parents live very close to Wright Patt, so we stayed with them and got to have fun with Grandma and Grandpa too! Grandma cooked us some delicious dinners, Grandma and Grandpa spoiled Ollie, and we got to visit with some more friends!

Custard with Grandma!

Putting together the 5 in 1 sports extravaganza toy!

We met up with the Pitsticks for lunch!

There were pumpkins there, so of course we had to go check them out!

Dinner with the Pochets!

Drew was already in bed, but here are the other 3 in jammies!

Grandma took us to the children's museum!
Ollie loved it!

Looking at the windmill.

Crawling through tunnels!

Being a turtle!

Then it was time to say goodbye, again.

Can't wait to see Daddy again!
Just 5 more months till R and R!

Monday, October 29, 2012

Re-Cap of October! (sort of)

October has been another fly by month! With Oliver's birthday wrapping up the end of September, I was thinking October might have been great month to get back into a good routine and organize for the upcoming holidays....that didn't happen.

But for very good reason!! Daddy came home! This re-cap is not going to include daddy's visit, that deserves it's own post. So this one is literally going to just give you a glimpse of everything else that happened in October (minus Halloween...obviously!).

Nate, me, Tiffany, April and Brian headed to the VT Game!

Love these ladies!

Ollie and Auntie April

The Lewtons and The Wiggins! They joined us for the football weekend,
and took care of my babies while we were at the game.

Fall fun with our friends!
Gabby, Delaney, Ollie and Avery!

Gabby and Ollie in the pumpkins.

On a hayride!

Our neighbor and friend, Andrea, took some pictures of me and my babies!

We are going to miss the East Coast fall!

Look at these two!
Love them!

Life is a Circus!

Ok, so I have been very behind on blogging! I thought I had posted about Ollie's First Birthday party(sometimes I get confused between Facebook and Blogger), but clearly have not!! And I am very proud of how his 1st turned out! We went with a circus theme, thanks to Pinterest for fueling that fire!

Oliver's actual birthday was on Monday and his birthday party was the Saturday following. So we had a mini celebration on Monday. First we went to IHOP for a pancake breakfast with Oliver's friend, Cody and Cody's mom, Hollie. Then we shared sugar cookies outside with all of our 'circle' friends. Ollie loved his sugar cookies and helped himself to many! Then we had a spaghetti smash for his dinner, which he may have loved more than the sugar cookies!

Blueberry pancakes!!

These are yummy!!

Our 'circle' friends!

Singing Happy Birthday!
Oliver began to realize that the Happy Birthday song meant good things were coming.

This stuff feels kind of neat...

and taste delicious too!

Sharing with Cousin Joe!
'You gotta try this stuff, man.'

The look of pure satisfaction at the end of a wonderful birthday!

And on Saturday we had his first birthday circus extravaganza! My mom and I were able to create our own 'Big Top' using plastic tablecloths. We were pretty happy with the result even if it took a couple of attempts to get it to stay up! Both sets of Oliver's Grandparents were able to come in town for the party and he also had many friends from the area join him to celebrate! We missed having Daddy here, but we were able to FaceTime a few times with Ryan throughout the party.