Thanksgiving Weekend 2013

It was a busy Thanksgiving weekend!

Thursday was Thanksgiving.

We stayed home this year for Thanksgiving and my side of the family came to our house for the day. It was the first time for us to host Thanksgiving and the first time in {at least the last} 7 years that my whole immediate family was together. We ate, watched some football, kids played and we ate some more. 

Amazing that everyone is looking at the camera! I think that might be a first!

 Auntie Sha, the photo boomer 

 Kids Table!

Us

Thursday night my mom, sister and I went out and did some shopping {yes, you can call us crazy}. However we decide shopping on Thanksgiving is not worth it. At all. You can get the same sales on Friday {DURING the day, NOT in the middle of the night!} So we went home and slept and then went back out the next morning. People are crazy though when it comes to Black Friday.

Friday was the Civil War.

Russ went to the Civil War game. Our brother-in-law is a UofO alum and has season tickets and invited Russ to go with him. 

The kids and I headed up to my Aunt and Uncles in Portland to watch the game. It was a great game! The Beavers actually put up a fight and we lost by only one point. It was sad, we were so close to winning. But it was a way better game then we thought it would be so it was a lot of fun to watch!

Friday night we stayed at my sisters and Russ stayed at his sisters. 

Saturday we went to Zoo Lights.

Saturday Russ helped his sister and brother-in-law move and we hung out with my sister. And then went to Zoo Lights! 

{click here to see the first zoo light experience, we've only gained a couple kids :)}

 Sibling love

 Lily checking out Lily 

{the baby elephant at the zoo is named Lily}

She loved touching the lights!

The Bartlett family!

Sunday we got our Christmas Tree.

Searching for the perfect tree (the only picture I took).

Well, that was a busy four day weekend! 

Hope you had a fun Thanksgiving weekend!

Fall 2013

I can't believe it's been OVER a month since my last post! I feel like the reason for that is because there is so much to catch up on that I keep putting it off and then never end up posting anything! So here we are a month since Lily's broken leg (which healed great, after 3 weeks in a splint!) and tomorrow is Thanksgiving (not sure how that came so fast!). Here's a little catch up and then I'm going to just pick up where we are in life, because if I don't, I'm not sure I will ever blog again. 

The weather has been pretty nice this fall! We made to the pumpkin patch kind of on a whim one sunny Saturday afternoon with some friends. 

Searching for the pumpkins

Luke and Blake

Pretty typical family photo these days

Blake got to drive the tractor!

A wagon full of kids!

Russ and I both entered a new decade... the thirties... yikes!

My sweet sister threw me a surprise birthday party at a tailgater before a football game, and had lined up babysitting (my wonderful in-laws, who drove all the way up from Medford-- thank you guys!!) so I could actually go to a game!

For Russ's birthday I surprised him with a day off of work and a family trip to the zoo. Something we had been wanting to do for a while. 

Then we had a little party at our house. 

And of course there was some Beaver football involved. 

Russ has made it to every home game this fall. And Blake went to quite a few too. Both those boys love their football and their Beavers!

We've been teaching Blake's class at church which has been fun!

We had the Hulk and a Butterfly for Halloween

This little girl got a horrible virus.

 We ended up in the ER one night because she was just not acting normal at all and hadn't for days and I wasn't wanting to take any chances since she had been hospitalized for pneumonia and bronchiolitis last winter.

We were there for a few hours, they ran a gamut of tests and everything looked great so they sent us home and thankfully the next day she really started to improve.

We've been playing outside a lot since the rain hasn't really started yet. Have I mentioned how much we are loving our new neighborhood! 

Lily has really wanted to feed herself lately,

which is great, but it usually ends up like this...

And then straight to the bathtub she goes.

Well, that's what we've been up to in a nut shell (I'm sure there is lots I have forgotten). Hopefully I'll get better at staying on top of this blogging thing, and blog more then once a month! 

Hope you had a great fall!

Lily's Leg

Well, the first broken bone in the Bartlett family goes to little Miss Lily. 

On Friday, I watched Michael and we went to the park. I suggested that Lily go down the slide on Michael's lap. As they went down, her leg got caught in between his leg and edge of the slide and went backward. I watched it happen... it was like slow motion, and as soon as it happened I knew it wasn't good. She cried, but it wasn't a my-leg-is-broken-I-am-in-so-much-pain type cry. So we played at the park a bit longer and then headed back to Michael's house. When we got there I put her on the floor and I knew something wasn't right. When she tried to crawl she would cry and stop. I called Russ to get a second opinion and then called the doctor.

And sure enough it was fractured. 

Thankfully, we had the option to use a splint. We can take it off for baths and it's not as bulky as a cast. She has to wear it for about 3 weeks. The first night was a challenge, she couldn't seem to get comfortable to sleep with it and was up a lot. She has now figured out how to crawl with it, but won't stand on it {I'm sure it still hurts a lot}. 

Thank you everyone for the prayers and comments on Facebook and Instagram. It means a lot! 

Lily's First Birthday Party

Last Sunday we had Lily's 1st Birthday Party. A few weeks before we laid sod in the back yard intending to be able to use it for the party. We should have known that it was going to be a monsoon the weekend of her party! I think it rained a good couple inches that day, no joke and it was supper windy. It was a steady downpour the whole day. So to make things work, we cleaned out the garage and had half the party in there. It really ended up working out fine and I was surprised at how well our house held the 40+ people that were here!

 See the rain out there?! 

Lily's "smash" cake

 The cake

The table spread

#1 Piñata 

(I used this tutorial to make the piñata, except, I used the rolled crape paper instead of tissue paper)

 We had so much family come (which was so fun!) and many of them were traveling form the Portland, Salem, and Medford. I thought it would be nice to have her open presents from them before everyone else came, then that way they could take off when they needed too and it wouldn't be so crazy. 

It was a little sad seeing this thing being hit at ha!

 I didn't get a picture of it but, we had to call in Uncle Danny to hit it hard enough to break it open!

 The house full!

Birthday girl ready for some cake!

Don't worry, we ended up cutting it in half!

More presents

Lily and Liya

I still can't believe Lily is ONE!

Thank you everyone who came! We are so blessed to have such great friends and family! It was a fun day!