Thanksgiving 2013

Last year at this time we were celebrating Thanksgiving in Disney eating in Epcot at Mexico for Dinner.  This year however we stayed in Good old New Hampshire.  We had Brian's family over for dinner and then my family came over later for pie.  It was a very nice day! 

The boys posed for a quick picture

My lovely centerpiece from my dad

Baby's first Thanksgiving

a cut throat game of Candyland before dinner

Our table

9 months 11/22/13

Weighing I at 21.8 lbs (70%) and 31.25 inches (over the 90%) Is Owen Richard Stack!  He is sitting up by himself, has just recently started clapping his hands and babbles words like mama and dada.  He loves his go around walker and has actually started running around it! He loves to play with his brothers and is just a really content boy! Happy 9 months baby boy.  Can you slow down just a little bit.

Owen Richard

So I have been horrible at blogging especially about Owen, which I feel awful about so I figure it is never too late to start.  Owen has been such a blessing! He is such a good baby.  He practically never cries and always has a smile on his face. He takes good naps, pretty much sleeps through the night and is just about the sweetest baby ever.  He loves his brothers and man do they love him! Seeing how my boys interact with him just fills my heart.  Some weekends they will get Owen up and bring him downstairs and Brian and I come down to find them all snuggling with blankets on the floor watching a movie.  My absolute favorite part of the day is when I put Owen to bed and he takes his bottle and gets sleepy and we rock together and he drifts off to sleep while I sing him his song.  I want to hold on to those moments forever. It makes me sad to see how fast he is growing up!  He goes for his 9 month appt on Wednesday and I will post his stats.  My goal from here on out is to give a once a month blog update on him. Starting with his 9 months stats!

Halloween

Ok so I'm playing catch up. I have become a horrible blogger.  This year the boys decided that they didn't want to do a family costume so they each picked their own costumes this year.  As you can see from the picture Brady was a hot dog, Cameron was the scare crow, Liam was Mario and Owen was a monkey.  This year it was raining during trick or treat.  Brady and Liam pooped out early so Brian took them back to his parents house, and Cameron and I kept going we were soggy but we had fun!  We have already decided that next year we a making costumes! I'm tired of buying costumes that only last like a day and I want to have the fun of making them.

Liam Started Preschool

On Thursday this week Liam and I went to the open house for Rainbow Preschool. This is an hour during the day that the kids can go and the parents stay with them to help them get acquainted.  Liam was a little shy to say the least.  He kept asking to go home and didn't really want to play.  I was pretty surprised at his reaction, because he has been talking about going to school all summer.  SO we stayed for the hour and left knowing that I would be dropping him off the next day.  Friday morning he got up talking about preschool and got all dressed and put on his back pack and was ready to go. When we got there he seemed ok.  He hung up his back pack and coat and walked into the classroom. That's when things started to go down hill.  I was going to give him a hug and he grabbed on for dear life and started screaming "I want to go home!!!!"  I pulled him off me and handed him over to the teacher.  I went to my car and could hear him screaming outside.  I got in my car and cried.  Of all people I know that he was going to be fine and have a great time but it was still difficult.  Well I am happy to report that when I picked him the teachers told me he did great and he was all smiles.  He goes to school Mondays and Fridays so we will see how he does tomorrow after the weekend.  Can't believe how big he is getting!

Gone for a while

So clearly I have bee horrible about posting to the blog. Partially because the computer is super slow and it would annoy me to post things, but I have found an app for blogger and I want to get better at posting.  So let's see Brady started second grade and Cameron started kindergarten!  They both love their teachers!  Liam is actually starting school officially on Friday! He will go to rainbow preschool Mondays and Fridays.  Tomorrow we go for an hour to get acquainted, he is very happy that I will be staying the first day.  Owen is 6 months old! When did that happen? I think he is starting to teeth.  He has been a little cranky and his fingers are always in his mouth, however even with teething he is such a good boy! So hopefully this is just the beginning again of blogging.

Trick or Treat

This past week has been packed with Halloween fun!  monday night was Brady's Cub Scout Halloween party that the whole family went to.  All the kids got to do a parade around the gym and they played games and had a really fun time!





















Then we had the pumkin lighting on Friday so the boys picked out a pumpkin and carved it with daddy

 

 

 

Tonight we went Trick or treating with our Friends Dustin and Elizabeth and their children.  They live in Haverhill and had trick or treating tonight.  The kids had a blast and cant wait for our town Trick or treat.  We just hope we have one seeing as they are predicting a pretty nasty storm this week

 

It's Fall!

The time has come for apple picking and hay rides!  This past weekend we went on our first apple picking excursion of the season.  It was perfect weather kind of cool and crisp.  We had a fabulous time.  It is great to be able to go with Brian's parents and sister and grandmother.  It was a wonderful family day!

 

double fisting it!

gotta love apples

rrrrrrr pirate brady and his apple

mmmmmmm apple cider donuts

Family portrait time

special Cameron and babcia hugs!

Dziadziu helping out

Babcia, Dziadziu and the grand kids

1st day of TLC preschool

Cameron has gone to pre school at Rainbow preschool for the past two years, although he could have gone to kindergarten this year he would have only made the cut off for his class by 5 days so we decided to have him do one more year of pre school.  This year we enrolled him in the integrated pre school at pollard school. so he is in the school that he will be going to next year and he goes to school at 12:40 and then takes the bus home with Brady.  He has been doing AWSOME!  he never had any anxiety or anything, he went off to school with a smile and came home with a smile!  I am so proud of him!

Cameron's new Mario Back pack

always time for a picture with his little brother

Coming off the big bus!

1st day of First grade!

It is so hard for me to believe that on September 4th I sent my baby, my first born off to first grade.  I remember working at pollard school being pregnant with Brady and thinking it's going to be a long time before he is here at school.  Well I feel like I blinked and he is now going there.  Brady was so excited and nervous but did well!   I love hearing all about his days, I hope it continues that he wants to talk to me about school.

Too long

So it's been about 6 months since I last posted.  With it being so easy to upload pictures to face book I have kind of gotten out of posting to the blog but I do enjoy being able to go back and read about our trips and special events.  Lots has happened in the past 6 months.  Our biggest news is that we are expecting baby #4. I am 14 weeks and Due the first week in March.  Here are a few high lights of our summer and I will do my best to keep this updated!

          

Liam turned 2

 

We went to Santa's village

Had so much fun!

Storyland!

Clark's trading post

karate Tournament

This weekend the boys and I all competed in the Karate schools tournament.  Cameron and I although we worked very hard did not place, but Brady came in 3rd in Forms for his phase.  He blew me away!  I have never seen Brady perform as well as he did when they called his name to come up infront of the judges.  He was confident, said the script he was supposed to say stepped back did his form and turned around to get his scores, which were all 7 and 8's.  The highest score you can recieve was a 9.  It was a goood experience for all of us.  Although Cameron was disappointed he was still a good sport and congratulated his big brother.  It was a big accomplishment for me to do this.  If 5 years ago someone would have told me that I would be competing in a karate tournament at 31 years old I never would have believed them.  Karate has done so much for me but most of all it has given me back some of the confidence in myself that I feel I had lost along the way.