I still intend to keep this thing going.  All evidence to the contrary. I will probably just put up a mass picture overload post pretty soon to get us all caught up. We are alive and life is crazy. We are getting our house all packed up so we can move into Mama and Papa Farmer’s house for a few weeks.  Then into our new house!

In other news, I am starting another blog.  The new blog is mostly for me because I am finding that I am having a hard time remembering all the day to day stuff that is going on in our lives right now.  So I needed a place where I could record everyday, from my phone, all the things that the kids do that make me smile.  I really don’t want to forget all these things, so Notes on All the Glamor is born. Please don’t feel obligated to follow. I’m not planning on linking it up to our Farmer Family News blog or anything because the goal is to post everyday and that could get a little old.  But you are more than welcome to read and comment if you have nothing better to do.

Anyway, that is my quick update. Like I said, I am planning on having a major picture update soon. I just need to get my act together. Hopefully before we move, but I definitely will not make any promises.  It’s kind of a mad house around here.

For our family, the first two weeks of October are one continual birthday celebration! This year (just in our immediate family) we had Logan and Emmett’s birthdays, lunch with daddy at Red Robin, a combined birthday party for them, Madeline stating on solids, a visit from Grandma Sharon, a train ride and a couple of different pumpkin patch trips (with a cider pressing in there somewhere too.).  Everyone took the craziness in stride and it has been an October to remember!

Logan’s birthday

Logan and Emmett’s birthday party

Madeline starts eating solids!

Emmett’s birthday

Pumpkin patches with Grandma Sharon

And the train ride on Mt.Rainier Scenic Railroad

Yeesh! What a wild and crazy October! And there is more to come! We also had family pictures taken, which I will share when they become available. And then, don’t forget all the halloween excitement that is yet to come! Wow, what a month!

Better late than never but, I tell you, we have had a WILD couple of weeks! Here is Emmett’s birthday interview. Enjoy

How old are you? 3 years old!

What makes you happy? Playing with Becca and Natalie and my friends!

What is your favorite animal? um…a COW!

What is your favorite thing to eat? Logan…no, chickens…no, toast!

What is your favorite thing to do? make tracks for my train

What is your favorite TV show? Wild Kratts

What are you really good at? cleaning up my toys

What is your favorite movie? Chicken Run

What is your favorite color? Red

What is your favorite song? Popcorn Popping

Who is your best friend? Logan

What do you and your Mom do together? tickle!

What do you and your Dad do together? Daddy gives me piggy-back rides and horsey rides

What is your favorite sport? basketball

Where is your favorite place to go? the park

What is your favorite book? 5 little ducks say quack quack quack

What do you want to be when you grow up? a fighter-fighter (that’s firefighter in Emmett speak)

Emmett is such an awesome kid! He makes us laugh all the time and I can’t believe that he is getting so big!

Today is Logan’s 5th birthday! I want to try to keep better track of where each of my kids are and what they are like on their birthdays by having them answer a few questions every year. We will see how long that lasts.

How old are you? 5 years old!

What makes you happy? Playing at grandma’s house

What is your favorite animal? A pig. That’s a farm animal.

What is your favorite thing to eat? I love to eat spaghetti for dinner.

What is your favorite thing to do? Jumping on the trampoline at Grandma’s house.

What is your favorite TV show? The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That

What are you really good at? I am good at reading.

What is your favorite movie? Chicken Run

What is your favorite color? Blue and Red and Black

What is your favorite song? Popcorn Popping and Follow the Prophet

Who is your best friend? Emmett and Payton

What do you and your Mom do together? pick fruits and vegetables that are ready to eat. (I swear that is what he really said!)

What do you and your Dad do together? Play Chutes and Ladders

What is your favorite sport? playing football, at grandma’s house, in the front yard.

Where is your favorite place to go? Kids Castle

What is your favorite book? Green Eggs and Ham

What do you want to be when you grow up? A dragon killer, a missionary, and a pom pom maker.

I sure love this boy! He is the coolest kid I know.

(I found the birthday questionnaire at www.leeloublogs.blogspot.com)

So we went BACK to Island Park for a week with Eric’s family this time. Can you tell how much we like going there? We did some wake boarding, tubing, roasting marshmallows in the fire, visiting the fish (and birds) at Big Springs, having a lovely time with family, and eating way too much delicious food.

Most of our summer has been spent either traveling or lazing around the house. Personally, I am still a little scared to go out in public alone with a newborn and two crazy boys. So we had a really low key summer. Here are some of our random moments. Mostly pictures of Madeline and her first smiles.

Madeline and her “skinny” jeans

Madeline loving her Bumbo chair

Miss Madeline modeling her swimming suits

We made a QUICK trip back from our Waite reunion so that we could be back to church on Sunday for Madeline’s blessing. What a great day with all our family and friends! Unfortunately, we were all tired and a little frazzled so we didn’t get any super pictures of miss Madeline in her dress. And the kids were climbing on trees. It was a crazy and memorable day!

So we were in charge of our Waite family reunion this time around. We were mean and made everyone DRIVE from AZ or CA up here to the Northwest. We took everyone to one of our favorite spots to vacation–Island Park, ID! We had a blast going into Yellowstone (no bears–sorry Katie), visiting Eric’s grandma at the lake, playing with cousins (12 kids, with two sets of two year old twin boys. It was definitely an adventure!), and just having a great time spending time together. Thanks Waites for making the trip!

I took Logan and Emmett to our ward fathers and sons camp out Friday night. It was a fun adventure. We started by following directions that led us to a snow covered road at the summit of White Pass. I’m pretty sure the poor Civic, which can barely make it out of the driveway when there is an inch of snow, wasn’t going to make it down this road. Turns out we were supposed to turn about 20 miles earlier. We finally found our way and got to the campsite. We had sloppy joes for dinner and s’mores for dessert.

In the morning we ventured down to the zip line that a ward member brought up. I wasn’t really planning to let the kids try it, but Logan did it without my permission (typical Logan…) and once Emmett saw Logan do it he wanted to do it too. He won the argument and we got it on video.

Logan on Zip Line

Emmett on Zip Line

After some pestering by my mother, I am finally getting around to posting some “real” pictures of Miss Madeline. She will 4 weeks old this week. I can’t believe it. It seems like time goes SO SLOW just before a  baby is born and then after the birth, time races to catch up. I always feel like a lose a month or so.

Anyway, we are all doing great! Madeline is so sweet and adorable. I just can’t get enough of her. She loves to cuddle which is good and bad. I love to just sit on the couch and hold her but then I never seem to get anything else done. Oh well. It is a sacrifice I am willing to make. She is sleeping pretty good too. She usually wakes up once in the night and still spend much of the day asleep.

Logan and Emmett have been doing really well with the transition too. Logan is very “motherly” with Madeline and likes to try to sooth her if she cries. To be honest, Emmett has had a few jealous moments, but nothing huge so far. Mostly he just gets a little tired of me holding her and neglecting him so he will try to climb in my lap too. Who can blame the little guy?

Anyway, here are the pics!

Bath time

And a funny one of Emmett, taken by Logan.