Pumpkin Carving

Tonight Kara and I carved our pumpkins. It is a family tradition, regardless of the fact that we don't have any kids yet! Molly tried to carry off Kara's lid, but we stopped her...barely. Then we had to fight her off a few times because she wanted to eat the pumpkin innards and the seeds. Somehow Pseudo did manage to get some of the pumpkin and a seed. He ended up with pumpkin guts on his forehead. It can be a challenge to carve pumpkins with three dogs, just wait until there is a little one too! Everyone be safe Trick-or-Treating.

Kara used an apple corer to make "Boo"

and I made "Magoo"

(I'll have to get a better picture of this one!)

Poll

No...it's not a political poll. We just want to know if anybody looks at our blog on a regular basis. If you are a frequent flier...please let us know. :)

Gabe and Hayden

Gabe is 4 years-old already and Hayden is 4 months old. Being at Gabe's birthday was great...we hadn't seen him in 10 months!! That is way too long to go without seeing him. Anyway, here are some pictures of his birthday and his baby sister.

This is Gabe's "mean" face while he was playing with Grandma Kate.

Turtle Power!

Hayden in her Bumbo chair getting ready for the party.

SMILES!!!

Last weekend we went to Lincoln for Gabe's birthday party. We also met his little sister Hayden for the first time. We had a blast! Check out the picture below to see just how happy everyone was to be together!

At the end of the day, Gabe's mommy asked him what the best part of his day was and he said it was blowing up balloons with Kara. (Of course, we didn't just blow them up...we let them go and they flew all over the house!) How sweet to be the best part of a little kid's day! :)

P.S. - We just got back from a drive in the mountains AND we saw a MOOSE! The pictures of the moose aren't very good, he was too far away and in the shade....but we got some other good pics. Check back because I'm sure Jen will be posting some pics. soon.

Traveling

Things are busy here. Jen was in Breckenridge last weekend for a conference, this weekend we are going to Lincoln for Gabe's 4th birthday, and next weekend is Kara's birthday. Plus, Kara had parent teacher conferences this week and Jen is trying to finish two chapters of her dissertation by the 17th (Kara's B-Day)!!!

We hope everyone is doing well...and we will try to get better at keeping everyone updated. Hope everyone is enjoying Fall, it might snow in Laramie this weekend.

Thank-you!

So... I (Kara) obsessively check our adoption website statistics. Usually we get 1 or 2 hits a day. That means only 1-2 people look at our website everyday. However, today we have had 11 people look at our website. I'm not sure what is going on. Usually nobody looks at our website on Sunday and today 11 hits by 3:00. That's unheard of! So I have figured out that most of the hits are coming from a mail.yahoo.com account. My guess is that somebody added our link to the signature of their yahoo account...but I don't know who might have done this. So I'm sending out a big thank-you to this person. We will take all the help we can get! We are so excited to be moms! :) My other thought is that God works in mysterious ways...do you think He has a yahoo account??? :)

Jen's Photos

Well, Jen has finally gotten a few items posted to her etsy shop as well. Right now it is her photography, but she has a few knitted items she plans to add as well. Her shop is at:
www.naturepics.etsy.com

The weather is changing in Wyoming. Summer is gone and Fall is upon us. It's only in the 50's today, but Jen still refuses to turn the furnace on....Hopefully we can wait until at least the 15th before we have to turn it on. The more money we can save now the more we will have for the adoption.