Happy Halloween!!

Kaitlyn has a few costumes to wear today. Here is the first one that she is wearing at Daycare! Nate will be taking her Trick or Treating tonight in her second costume of the day.

I had a hard time getting her to sit still enough to take any pictures. It is not easy to have a 14 month old stand still for too long!
More halloween pictures to come.... after our trick or treating!!!

To Keep you Busy!

Kaitlyn has a few new tricks at home. She has now realized that she can fit through the railings in-between our dinner and living room. Except she decided to try it a little differently and got stuck.I love this face expression... See she got stuck... and than I grabbed the camera. If I would have waiting too much longer... She would have started getting mad at me.

Here is the view from the back end.

Here is Kaitlyn in a cute outfit I got from my boss. She looks like such a big girl now!

Girl's Weekend

Kaitlyn and I had a girls weekend. Nate went to Mora to get their new hunting land ready. I still can't believe that deer hunting is only a few weeks away. Friday night we went to Kristin's brother's house for a bon-fire. Kaitlyn loved riding in the wagon and climbing up all the stairs on the deck. It was a little chilly out, so Kaitlyn got to wear her new winter jacket we bought that day.


Saturday we hung out at home until the afternoon. We met Aunty Anny and her friends at a nearby Apple Orchard. We got to go on a hay ride, pick apples, and enjoy the beautiful weather.

Kaitlyn loved walking around and picking up all the apples that had fallen from the trees. She also got to taste part of an apple and really liked it.

I hope that this was not the last nice weekend of weather until Spring. Yicks!

Sunday was beautiful, so Kaitlyn and I decided to spend the day outside. We played in the driveway with all our big girl toys. Hailey came over and played too! Kaitlyn loves anything that she can ride on or in. She has mastered the dukes of hazzard window entry into her car. While Kaitlyn was busy with her big girl toys... I raked leaves and sticks.

Look mommy - I can push this all by myself.

Here is Kaitlyn and Hailey playing in the cars. "I am ready if you are.... let's race."

"Ready, Set, Drive...."

Mini Honeymoon

My dad's wedding present to Nate and I was 2 nights at a hotel. Nate and I chose to go up the North Shore to see the fall colors. We stayed in a cute little motel in Two Harbors. We had a jacuzzi suite - which we ended up not using. The pool hot tub was a lot quicker to use - especially after our long day of hiking on Saturday.

We both had Friday off, so we left late Thursday night (after Nate's class) and spent the night in Mora. Friday morning... we left Kaitlyn and Cody with Grandma and Grandpa. (From what I heard... Kaitlyn had a great time with Grandma, Grandpa, Aunty Mandi, and her cousins... I do know that more family stopped over to visit. One thing to note... she was a Grandma's Girl.)

The weather was a little rainy on Friday, but that didn't stop us from a tour of Glensheen Mansion, and a home brewed beer at the Brewhouse. We also met up with my college friend Jen and her husband for a quick visit before we headed to Two Harbors for the night.

Here is Nate and I at the Two Harbors pier. Some nice stranger took the picture for us. (We had to ask a lot of nice strangers to take our picture.)

Saturday morning we got up and headed up the North Shore... We beat the crowds to Gooseberry - The parking lot was full by the time we left. We also walked all the way to Lake Superior. It was a little chilly at first, but by the time we walked back... we were sweating.

Here is another nice picture taken by a stranger at the top of Gooseberry Falls.

Here we are at the Lake. No nice strangers to take our picture... plus Nate is not very excited to be in every picture.

After Gooseberry we went to Split Rock Lighthouse. We made it just in-time for the walking tour. The sun started to come out during the tour. We learned a lot and also decided to take the path down to the lake. The walk down was easy, but the walk back up the 171 steps... not so fun!

We ran into another nice stranger to take this picture... I felt kind of guilty because he was already holding 2 huge cameras.... my guilt vanished when his wife came and asked us to take their picture.

Our next stop was Grand Marias... My favorite little town in Minnesota. I hadn't been there for over 10 years, but it was worth the drive. The trees were at their peak. We ate at Sven and Ole's and did a little shopping. I found a cute hat for this winter. On our way back to Two Harbors... we stopped at Cascade Falls... which was beautiful. It had rained all week, so the falls were beautiful.

We want to thank all of our guest photographers on our mini-honeymoon. With out them we would not be able to capture our trip. We also want to thank my dad for sponsoring our adventure... without him and lower gas prices... this trip would not have been possible.

A Better Walking Video

Last night we tried to capture a better video of Kaitlyn walking... She falls a few times, but gets back up and tries again. The crazy thing she is carrying is Cody's collar... Enjoy!

Walking

A few Friday's ago I decided to take some high schoolers from my church to a football game. This left daddy home to be with Kaitlyn. Of all the nights... she decides to take her first real steps. The next day I tried to get her to do it again, but no... only for daddy. Than last Friday Nate picked Kaitlyn up from daycare and she walked to him. (What? This can't be happening!) When I got home... she did walk to me. She can stand up without any help and is able to walk at least 7 - 10 steps. I tried several attempts to capture some video of her walking without falling, but that didn't work out so well. Here is one video... I am going to still attempt to capture her walking without falling.

All at Once!

Since Kaitlyn waited until after her first birthday to get her first tooth.... they have all decided that they need to come out now. About a week after her first tooth appeared (Top right)... her top left tooth started to appear. This past week I have noticed that her 2 middle bottom teeth are showing and another one on the top right. She does pretty well with all this action going on in her mouth. She doesn't sleep to well on the nights, but otherwise is pretty easy going about these changes in her mouth. The one thing I have noticed is that she likes to grind her teeth... Is this normal? My feeling is it is a new feeling in her mouth and it feels good to put pressure on her them.

Kaitlyn loves to play in her laundry basket. After she helped fold her clothes she decided that being in the laundry basket was more fun.