sunday

Oh, Sundays. 

We love Sundays at our house...we get to spend time with our family here, and BEST of all, it means skype/googlechat/xbox chat with our family in England. We miss them oh-so-much and are SO grateful for the many ways we can keep in touch with all of them.  I am currently working on a Harry Potter-esque "floo powder", but for now good old cameras and microphones will have to do. Can't wait to go and visit this next year! Woohoo!

vote

Even if things didn't turn out as we would have liked...at least I had a cute voting buddy.

snow

Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved the first snow. I would always run around outside barefoot with my brother, seeing who could last the longest until you could no longer feel your feet. And that awesome tingly/stingy feeling when you would try and warm them up inside. The best. 

Not always a fan of the following six months of cold and snow, but for that one day...it was awesome. 

In my post-baby world I had no idea that it was supposed to be snowing this morning a few weeks ago...but luckily emerged from the house long enough in the morning to see the glittering white stuff. Obviously I had to bring Carter out for his first snow experience. He was intrigued, but a bit more concerned that we tried to shove a 0-6 month hat on his 98% head. It wasn't working out so well for him. Luckily I thought this might be an issue due to the Best-family-larger than average-head-gene, and I bought a 6-12 month just in case. Perfect fit for our little 3 month old. Poor kid. 

fall

I love fall. Best time of the year by far. We tried to get in a few short trips to see the gorgeous trees. We stayed overnight in the lodge at Mutual Dell with my family and it was lots of fun. We all slept in one ginormous room, and with a almost 3 month old it was amazing, as you can imagine. 

corn

So this one time we went with my family to the corn maze. It took a bit of finagling to make it there and I am oh-so-glad we did. We started walking around the maze and I was super disappointed. This was Tom's first corn maze experience and it was not what I remembered. The corn was lower than our shoulders, enabling us to see where we started from the whole time. After wandering around the same circle a good few times, picking sunflower heads, and finding a creepy old metal tricycle, we decided to call it a bust and go home for warmth and food. 

Turns out, we never actually made it into the actual corn maze. We were in the kiddie maze the whole time. Riddle me that! 

Annnnnnyways...the group IQ was sufficiently high that we should have put two and two together, but alas. I, for one, was glad to get the babe home to bed, so I will call this trip a success. And a corn maze we will never forget. 

halloween

Oh Halloween. Not my favorite of the holidays, I have to be honest. BUT it was super fun to torture dress Carter up and show him off to the neighbors. And trying to take any pictures of him was awesome because he was way more interested in the shiny pumpkins and wondering why he had white fuzz on his tummy. 

We bought this skunk costume last year on a whim because it was super cheap, before we knew I was pregnant, and it just happened to be the perfect size. The cosmos of Halloween must have been smiling on me that day. 

blessing

We had the most wonderful baby blessing for Carter at my parent's house. We got permission to have it on the webcam so all of our family in England could be part of Carter's special day. I have many moments where I feel awful for taking Tom away from his family in England, and now even more that we have their grand baby  so far away. It was really wonderful to be able to have them watch and be a part of the blessing day. It was something we will always remember and will definitely do in the future. Carter outdid himself and screamed through the entire blessing, and was happy the rest of the day.