My mom & I threw my cousin Erica a baby shower over Thanksgiving weekend for baby #3! She is having a girl & is due the 1st week of Jan. but is hoping to go early. Her husband, Andy, has his birthday is right after Christmas so maybe she will be his birthday present! They will not reveal the name until she is born, which drives me crazy! But, they like to make the name decision on their own. They have done that with their other 2 kids, and they did a great job, so I'm sure we will all love this little girls name too! We can't wait to see her! We played a couple of games. One game was the "candy bar" game where you play "memory" with funny words that go with the candy bar. Like "night of conception" = Score candy bar") The other that was pretty fun, was the balloon pregnancy game! You split the party into 2 teams, each take turns blowing up your own balloon, then put it under your shirt (pregnant) and once everyone has done that, the 1st person pops their balloon any way they can with out taking it out of their shirt. This is how they "give birth". The team that gives birth first, wins! It was so funny watching people laying down on the floor trying to pop that balloon! So funny!

We kind of like cookies in this house! We were all needing a cookie, so Ryan and Baylor made us Oatmeal cookies, this way they are healthy, right!

Baylor and Gunnar get together 3 times a week! I usually have Tuesday mornings, Grandma Beauchamp has them Wed. after noon and Gloria, takes Thursday mornings! It's a great life isn't it! This Tuesday that we had Gunnar over, it was raining outside so I thought I better find something for them to do! we made giant sugar cookies and frosted them.

Halloween 2008

Ryker's pumpkin is this EKU one, in case you were confused") Well, Halloween was really different this year.

First of all, I have a high school student. Guess where he was. I know what your thinking, but Ryker, is a better kid than Ryan or I") HA! He just hung out at the football game down at lampson stadium, watching Southridge games, both Freshman and Varsity. Came home and got ready to go duck hunting with his friends, Troy and Casey. They came up empty handed, no ducks.

Jenner, 6th grade, middle school. HE was at the party! Past his curfew no less, oh, and forgot his phone. He was a Crazy Mariners Fan. Crazy being the wig")

Baylor was a cowboy. Don't you love the pose! Ryan and I took him trick or treating around the neighborhood across the street. It took about an hour and he was done. He ate 3 snack Hershey crunch bars and went to bed. He got a 1lb zip lock full. Not bad this year. I don't think we'll get fat of this candy...last year we had enough candy that it lasted us through the new year!

Ryan and I watched "The Strangers". I was so excited for this movie because I love scary movies. Ryan, not so much. He watched it with me, but the next day, well the next night, after I let the kids watch it, cause they like scary movies too, he informed me it was giving him nightmares! Not terrible ones, but the movies freak him out. It is based on a true story, so it freaked me out too! But not, night mares! I felt bad. I promised to never make him watch one again! The boys didn't think it was very scary.

So like I said, different. I only had one costume to put together, and how much easier could it have been? Jenner came up with his on his own. Ryker I didn't see that day from 7am - 10pm! I think my kids are growing up.

Deer Hunting 2008

Sunday, Oct. 19th 2008, last day of regular deer season and they pulled it off! 3 deer today! They went to the traditional spot, of "Napsinger's" land which is where Ryker got his 3 point buck. Later they moved to "Kelly's" place in Tucannon, which is where Jenner & Ryan got their deer. I think we are set on red meat for a while")

Ryan got his Moose!

Ryan had a great 7 day hunting trip up in Canada with 3 other guys. He had many adventures! 1) one of the guys was bucked off his horse and broke his one rib in 3 places, bruised his heart and kidney and was helicoptered out to the hospital! The whole ordeal took 24 hours to get him out of the forest, to the hospital and finally he got to call his wife to tell her he was ok, but she had to go get him and bring him home where his is on bed rest for 2 wks! What a scare! 2) Ryan and the guys had a grizzly about 30 yards from them that actually stood up and did the scary grizzly thing! The guide Ryan was with stood up and yelled at the bear until it ran away. Ryan said he was never so scared as that moment! There were grizzly everywhere! They were always on the look out! There are tons more stories, but Ryan must tell them") We have about 400lbs of meat now and a nice 41" wide set of antlers! (The cape was cut to short so we don't have a head mount, but I'm ok with that") We haven't tried the meat yet, but I'm sure we will this weekend!

I pickled my peppers")

I picked all my jalapenos off the plants when I took down the garden the other day. (see "1st harvest crew" )So I put them all in mason jars. hmmm, I think I should have used smaller jars. What are we going to do when we open a whole mason jar of jalapenos? there's about 2 dozen or more in each jar! But honesty, I just needed to pickle the pour jalapenos so they wouldn't go to waste. I just only wanted to make one batch") I found the recipe on line. I'm hoping and thinking it will work?") pretty easy. I'll report back once we open a jar. Maybe at our BBQ when we break out the Moose and Cow and Deer! Oh, you'll hear about that soon")