GW's First Birthday Party!!!

 We had so much fun celebrating Gunner's first birthday on Saturday.

Lots of tractors, pumpkins, friends and family made for a great day!

My Mom and I love Fall, so we had fun decorating outside for this party.

My Grandparents gave me this John Deere pedal tractor when I was two-years-old.

Last year, my Grandpa restored it...looks good as new, doesn't it?!

John Deere green and yellow, orange pumpkins, and of course turquoise...perfect!  

I used the monthly carseat pictures as part of the decorations.

 

With Gaga's help, I made the cute pumpkin cake and smash cake.

I ordered the adorable cupcake toppers off Etsy.

The popcorn bar was a fun {and easy} addition.

My sweet happy family!

 

 The birthday boy!

 

CAKE!!!

The kids had fun decorating pumpkins!

 

Two of my best girlfriends and their sweet kids were there to celebrate with us.

And when the party was over...GW really enjoyed himself!

A big thank you to all of our friends and family who helped celebrate Gunner's special day with us!

The Little Buckaroo {{1-year-old}}

One-year-old.

One-year-old.

Ahhhhhhhhh.....

It really doesn't seem like it's been a whole year since our little G-Dub made his appearance and completed our little family.

His smile brightens our every day.

He's a busy little boy and all boy he is.

He likes rocks, football, animals and tractors.

The true son of a rancher, he prefers steak.

His Mama's boy, he loves ice cream.

He give the BEST kisses.

He waves hi and bye and has just began to say "hi" and "bye" along with it.

He'll occasionally say "here" when he hands you something.

I LOVE to watch him and his sister interact. 

They are already the best of friends {and at times, the biggest of enemies}!

The hair really does shine red at times, and boy does he have a temper to match it.

I can't believe this is the last monthly carseat picture.

And in true GW fashion, he was a ham.

 

We had a little photo shoot the other day to capture a couple of 1-year-old pictures...

Happy Birthday G-Dub!!!
We love you SO much!

Pumpkin Patch

Well hello my friends!  It's been WAY too long.

I am so behind in the blogging world {among other things in my life!}, I debated trying to go back and catch up on posts and settled on just picking up right now.  

So here we go...

My Mom and Dad just returned from a weeks vacation, so that means I got to stay home with the littles for a week.

We had lots of fun.

One day included a visit to the pumpkin patch with Aunt Katie and Baby Maddie!

It was great.
It was a Wednesday morning and so it wasn't crowded at all.
I was even able to just let GW down to wander around; he of course loved that!

 

The Little Lady had a blast picking pumpkins out.

She was all set to go home and carve one that afternoon.

And we of course all had fun with Baby Maddie!

So here's to a happy Fall my friends...and a lot less time between visits!

The Little Buckaroo {{11-months-old}}

11-months-old!

Eleven!

I know I'm his Mama, but look at that cuteness.

 

The Little Buckaroo is doing great.

 

Ornery.  Ornery.  Ornery.

The orneriness is really starting to shine.

We've been on top of counters this month, crawled out the door, about fell on his head out of the shopping cart...and these are just the highlights.

He's still a super happy little guy.

But...he has a temper.

Like, throw yourself on the ground and kick your legs, sort of temper.

 

He had a little bout where we ended up at the pediatricians office one weekend.

We thought it was salmonella, but all the tests came back negative.

After some trial and error at home, I've come to the determination that he might have a little bit of a milk allergy???

He seems to be just fine on the soy formula.

So we'll see what Dr. Hoover has to say when we go see him next month.

 

Food.

Oh my goodness, this boy finally loves food.

The other night, we were having steak and I literally could not cut it fast enough to keep him happy.

He almost has four teeth.

The top two are broke through, but not quite all the way in yet.

And the biggest news...I guess we could go ahead and classify him as a walker.

This weekend, he started taking three and four steps at a time.

The other day, after he had taken two steps the night before, T told Gaga, "Gunner walked two miles last night."

Speaking of big sister, double trouble these two are.

Their Dad and I don't stand a chance!

He's telling you how old he's going to be next month...one.
His Dad and big sister have been working on that with him.

We're busy around here getting ready for a big birthday bash!!!

The day we buried Peter...twice

Ironic that the last post I managed to get up here was “Meet Peter.”
Because well, there’s no nice way to say this, but Peter is now dead.

We have been having a hot spell here in Colorado and well, we’re pretty sure cause of death was heatstroke.

Thursday evening John Wayne and the Little Lady went to play with Peter, just as they do every evening.
John Wayne said it was so sad.
T: “Peter…Peter…Where are you Peter…??? Daddy, where’s Peter at?”
John Wayne said his heart just sank as he looked in the hutch to find a dead Peter.
He told her that he was sorry, but Peter had died.
She immediately dropped her head and was sad, but there was no balling hysterics.

She's handled it remarkably well, although I’m not sure she fully gets it yet.
"My bunny died…but he be better tomorrow.”
No baby, I’m afraid not. Dead is forever.

John Wayne did the good Daddy thing and buried Peter out under the trees.

Later that night as we’re headed to bed, John Wayne goes to get his cell phone to set his alarm.
No cell phone.
Anywhere.
After searching EVERYWHERE (this is at 1 o’clock in the morning, mind you), we decide that there is only one place that the phone can be.

Peter Rabbit’s body was exhumed from the ground at sunset.
John Wayne’s phone was recovered.

 Nothing ceases to amaze me around here.

Meet Peter

This is Peter.
Isn't he cute?!?

Tressie got him at the county fair.
Notice that I didn't say 'caught' him at the county fair.

During the rodeo, on the track around the arena, they have games for the kiddos, one being the bunny catch. They release like 10 little bunnies and like 100 little girls go after them for their chance to catch a bunny to take home with them.

Well, the Little Lady had a bunny hop right up to her, there were no other little girls around, all she needed to do was lean over and pick it up...instead she leaned over, petted it and went after the bunny that 10 other little girls were after. 

She had numerous times when all she had to do was pick one up.
And she didn't.
She tells us later "I couldn't get my arms around it."

So, right there in the middle of the track, she throws a hissy.
Arms crossed, boot stompin' hissy.
Screaming all the way back up into the stands, as a very embarrassed John Wayne carried her.
It was quite the scene. {Atleast in our eyes. I had several others tell me how cute she was and when I said, more like ridiculous, they reminded me that it's only ridiculous when it's your own kid.}

When she returned to her seat, in search of sympathy, she sobbed, "Gugger, I catch no bunny."
Anyways, the hissy worked {there is something wrong with that..."the hissy worked"} and some little girls who did not have a place to keep the bunny they caught, gave theirs to her.

T is quite smitten with Peter.
And he is pretty darn cute.
{We think he's a Peter and not a Petunia, but we don't really know for sure???}

We got Peter a leash, so John Wayne and I don't have to worry about running after a little bunny, but for now, he mostly likes to go for wagon rides with T.
Oh, and a ball.
Peter has a ball.
I tried to explain to T, that I didn't think bunnies played with balls, but she was convinced otherwise.

Hopefully Peter has a nice long life, as the Little Lady "wants to keep Peter forever."

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Oh, but the chores...that's hard work.

Love her face here as she's hauling Peter's bag of food to him : )

The Little Buckaroo {{10-months-old}}

This guy, turned 10-months-old {like a week ago...I'm behind in all aspects of my life lately.}

Let's see...
Someone finally decided that they like food!
He'll eat LOTS of different things now.
He likes cheese, yogurt, pasta, veggies, meat.
Pretty much went from eating nothing, to eating everything.

He weighs right around 20 pounds and wears mostly size 12 months.

He still only has two teeth.

I would say that I think he might walk anytime, but I totally thought that with the Little Lady about now and then she didn't walk until 13 months, so who knows.

When he "talks," it's a cute "gruff" little boy voice.

He's a climber.
He likes to play with electrical cords.
He had his first black eye this week.
He's a slapper, like slap you right across the face, slapper. Not cute.
He's all boy.

He's pretty sure that his cute little grin can get him out of anything, but we're having to resist it at times.

Can't believe I just ordered invitations to our Little Buckaroo's first birthday party!