Halloween Pictures

Cameron was Curious George and Charles was the Man in the Yellow Hat for Halloween. I was surprised that Cameron did really good keeping his hat part of his costume on while he was trick or treating.

Getting ready to go. (I stayed home and handed out candy at the house.)

Projects

Our house has been a happening place the last few weeks! Our yard has been taken over by work crews and they've made really good progress in a short amount of time! So far, here's a list of the projects that we are working on:

1- (no picture) We had a HUGE oak tree taken out from the front of our house and one smaller one in the back. Both we both half dead and we were worried about the oak in the front dropping a large branch on our house or the neighbors. Charles also worked hard to trim back a lot of our palm trees so with that and the missing tree it has really opened up our front yard and view of our house from the street. It looks really nice!

2- We put an awning above our balcony

3- We added concrete pavers to our back porch. Before the pavers there was just a concrete slab with cracks. What a huge difference it made and it looks great!!

4- The one big project that we've been meaning to do since we moved in was to flatten out our sloped backyard and add a concrete wall to help with the drainage. Our backyard is so much bigger now and looks really nice. We are really excited about seeing it all finished. They started the project about 2 weeks ago and are moving right along. Right now we are almost ready for the new sod to go in :)

This is after they leveled out the yard

Cameron loves to dig in the dirt in the backyard. It's like one big sandbox!

The completed wall. Just waiting for 2 more loads of sand to even out the yard.

Close up picture of the wall

5- And the last, but CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, project was decorating Olivia's bedroom. It seemed to take forever as the room went up piece by piece but we are so happy with the end result! Can't wait for her arrival!!

I saw this bookcase in a catalog and Charles said that he could make it. I think it turned out better than the one in the catalog. Love it!!!!

My sister picked out all the wall decor

My good friend, Tara, made the bumper and crib skirt. She did an awesome job!

We ordered the "Olivia" wall decor and then my sister made the green board and put it together.

Maternity Photos

A couple of weeks ago my good friend, Debbie, came to our house to take some maternity pictures of the three of us. It's really hard to get all 3 of us looking at the camera but I thought we got quite a few good photos. (You may notice that Cameron's hair is shorter. He got a haircut just a few days before and they cut it shorter than it's been before. He looks so much more grown up!)

Love this photo!!

Fall Festivities

Although the weather has still been in the upper 80s here, we've been trying to get into the "fall" spirit by going to a couple of different pumpkin patches and farms.

These first few photos are when we took Cameron to our local pumpkin patch to pick out a pumpkin. Unfortunately, thanks to our hot weather, after carving our pumpkin it only lasted a week and we were back the following week to pick out another one.

Cameron making a silly face.

(Sorry that he's not looking at the camera in the other photos.

I get tired of trying to make him look!)

These photos are of us at a local farm that has various activities throughout the month of October. Along with a corn maze and pumpkins they have a hay ride, lots of activities for kids and great spots for photos. Cameron had a nice time even though later that afternoon he came down with a 24 hour bug, with his fever hitting almost 104! Luckily he was fine after the 24 hours.

The three of us on the hay ride

During the hay ride they took us through a cow pasture and gave us treats to give to the cows. Cameron loved it!

One of the photo spots with an old truck

Gatlinburg Vacation

Back on Sept. 11, Charles, Cameron and I started on our week-long vacation to Gatlinburg, TN. We drove the whole way, stopping for one night in a cabin at the Blue Ridge Motorcycle Campground in Waynesville, NC. Charles wanted to show me where he stays during his motorcycle trips so I agreed, not really knowing what I was getting myself into :) I am just thankfully we only had to stay one night in the cabin because I don't know if I would have lasted any longer! (FYI, it wasn't that bad, just really uncomfortable for someone who is 7 months pregnant!)

The "cabin" (more like a closet!)

Inside of the cabin features one very uncomfortable bed

These next few pictures are from our stop at the National Forestry Museum which was not far from our campground. It was the site of the first school of forestry.

The three of us in a helicopter simulation ride at the museum

Inside one of the old forestry classrooms

An old logging train (Cameron loved it!)

Ringing the train bell

After one night in NC, we headed the Westgate Smokey Mountain Resort in Gatlinburg. It was a BEAUTIFUL resort and we had a huge 1 bedroom condo. We really enjoyed ourselves!

The view from our balcony

Inside the condo (kitchen, dining & living room)

Cameron waving to the carousel at Ober Gatlinburg which is a ski resort in the winter and during the summer features lots of different rides and activities.
On the carousel

The three of us posing in an alpine sled

Charles and Cameron riding the ski lift (at Ober Gatlinburg) up to the alpine sled track. I was a little worried about Cameron going down the track but the sleds are made with brakes

Coming down the track

Cameron loved it!

This is a photo of the Wild Bear Falls indoor water park that was at our resort. We got in free for the week so we went for an hour or two just about everyday! It was a really nice water park with a huge kids play area, lazy river, big pool, 2 hot tubs and 2 big slides

Cameron playing in the kids area