More Pictures

So far I have updated with every picture Tessa has sent me, but I just love them so much I can't help myself!

Family Picture

Tessa just emailed me one of our family pictures. I loved it, and wanted to share! She is one talented girl. She also sent me some of the Laws' pictures!

Corn Maze

We love the Bluebell Corn Maze. I am so happy Mylee has her birthday party there every year! This year Jake and I seemed to get through the maze better than we have in the past. It must have been Brilee's help!

She was SO excited!

The kids getting ready to get LOST!

Mylee, Brilee, Katelynn, Marley, Jaylie, and Jens lost in the maze.

Riding the tractor to the pumpkin patch!

Out of all the pumpkins this is the one she wanted. Then she ate it. Crazy girl.

We got to baby-sit Rowdy today. Brilee was so happy about it! 

20 Months!

I just happened to notice the calendar and realize Brilee is 20 months old today! I looked at my blog from last year on this day, and I am so amazed how much she could change in a year. It's sad, exciting, fun, scary, and many other emotions! Brilee is learning so much everyday, and keeps everyone around her happy. She is such a joy! Some of our favorite things about Brilee...

Chore Time with Daddy. Jake can no longer be outside without his little shadow. I love this, and think it is so sweet to watch them "working" together. 

Bed Time is always a good time! Brilee finds books she likes and makes us read them every day. Early this summer she was obsessed with Farmer Brown, then came Brown Bear Brown Bear, and her newest obsession is Where the Wild Things Are. She is SCARED of the book, and really hates when the Wild Things "roar their terrible roars, gnash their terrible teeth..." But then the wild rumpus begins, and her life is happy again! I am worrying this book is giving her nightmares. 

Brilee is talking up a storm! She calls me Kelsey most of the time. She lets everyone know when they are touching her things by yelling "MINE!". She talks to me about her kitty cats. She answers NO to everything. Sometimes I feel like she is learning a word a minute, and I love it! 

I always hold the camera and take pictures like this one, and on this night Brilee had the camera and was going around the house pretending to take her picture. She brought me the camera and said "cheese". So, I did what she wanted of course!

The flash is bright, and she always closes her eyes!

Lately, Brilee has been hiding a lot! She is either in the pantry, bathroom, closet, or behind the couch. The couch is her favorite. She crawls back there and folds into a little ball. She giggles the whole time I am looking for her (which is great help in finding her).

Some toys never lose the novelty, and this horse is one of them! She loves it as much now as she did the day I got it off my shelf for her to play with. 

SAD NEWS! Brilee fell off the chair after dinner and bumped her nose on the way down. This is her first bloody nose, and let me tell you... DRAMA! She cried for an hour, stopped crying, Jake came home, and she started crying about it again. Poor baby!

HAPPY NEWS! Rowdy is here! He was born on September 20. He weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces. 7-11... he is going to love Slurpee's!

Harvest Weekend

What a crazy weekend we have had! Friday night Tessa took family pictures for us, and they are incredible! She has emailed me four of the pictures, and we are so impressed! We absolutely love them. Here is our sample photo session:

Saturday we went to Granny's early, and cut tomatoes for spaghetti sauce. While the tomatoes cooked Andre, Granny, and I went to the garden. Andre picked 2 big buckets full of beans. Granny and I picked 2.5 boxes of tomatoes, and LOTS of corn! We went back juiced the spaghetti sauce, and put the babies down for a much needed nap. After we were all recuperated Jake and I cut up 16 jalapenos, 6 Anaheim peppers, 12 yellow peppers, 6 bell peppers, 6 onions, 2 bunches of garlic, and one crazy hot pepper for our salsa that we will can tomorrow. Saturday our production team made 2 batches of beans, a batch of spaghetti sauce, and half a batch of salsa! Brilee spent the day playing with all her cousins. It was a good day for all!

Today we enjoyed the morning at the cabin. Jake, Stac, and Mitch went for a horse ride all afternoon. Brilee and I napped, and my parents walked into Cliff Lake. 

Our puppies are three weeks old, and their mom has pretty much quit feeding them. It's awful! So Jake has had to start supplementing them with calf milk replacer. Brilee supervises all feedings...

She makes sure they all get good and full! Even if she has to hold their little heads in the milk.

After the puppies are tended too, she makes sure the kitties are good. She multi tasks and cares for her baby and kitty all at the same time!

This is her "owie" tooth.