Happy Pumpkin Day!

For Halloween today I put a pumpkin on each of the boys shirts! They came off the cards that my gram sent in the mail this past week. We got a few good pictures of the boys. Tonight we will go to a fall festival on campus and then around the neighborhood a bit. We are having pizza at a friend's house first which should be fun. I will post pictures tomorrow of the boys in their costumes.

Fun package

Today the boys were very excited because they got a special package in the mail from their great-grandma Burns! They each got a card and a fun little "critter" that vibrates and twirls on the ground when you pull the string. They both kept pulling the string and watching their little critter go all over the place. Carsten found it particularly funny and began to laugh which then caused Rylan to laugh as well! Thanks Gram, they loved it!

Although Carsten does not look very happy in this photo, he was. The camera we have has a long delay when the flash is being used and by the time the camera actually took the photo he was either looking away, closing his eyes or no longer smiling. This was the best one of the bunch!

All three

It is very hard to get a good picture of all three of the boys together. I have yet to accomplish this task, but here are a few attempts!

Carsten "reading"

Got a good one of these two!

Two videos

A video of Carsten:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tlJKwLappo

A video of Rylan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x--Wt5Ni1NI

Weekend away

This past weekend I had the opportunity to go to a women's retreat with my Sunday group. I had a great time hanging out with my friends and spending some quality time with Logan! Logan was great for me all weekend long. He slept well at night and made hardly any noise during the teaching sessions. The older women who were there just adored him! He is so smiley now and that just makes him even more cute to me! Here is a picture of him today at about 2 1/2 months old.

Two months old & a trip to Wisconsin

Today Logan is two months old. Wow it has gone by fast. We are really starting to notice him changing in the past week. He is finally awake for a bit longer and he is a lot more alert and focused. He is smiling a lot now and got a lot of attention on our weekend trip to Wisconsin.

You may be wondering why we took a weekend trip to Wisconsin considering it is about 11 hours away from here?? Well unfortunately our car needed to pass an emissions test there and this was the only weekend we could do it. We had Monday off from school because it was Canadian Thanksgiving.

We left right after classes on Friday and got to Wisconsin at 12:30 a.m. It was a long drive, but it went well and the boys were very good. We spent the weekend at our dear friends the Williams' house. They were gracious to host us for two nights! We had a great time there just enjoying their company. Rylan and Carsten had a great time playing with old friends. On Sunday we visited our group there and had lunch afterward. Then we got back in the car and headed to Michigan. We spent one night in a hotel and did some shopping on Monday and then ended up back home at 8 p.m. Wow a whirlwind to say the least, but overall it was fun!

Sebastian, Eli, Rylan and Carsten

Logan in the carseat...he mostly slept!

Carsten having a little car nap!

Rylan enjoying a snack!

Big brother-baby brother

Rylan loves to hold Logan and asks me if he can all the time! It is cute to watch him talk to Logan and be so gentle with him. He hugs him and kisses him until Logan starts crying, indicating that he is done with all the love!