Bloody Halloween

I thought that these pictures would be appropriate since it is halloween.

I sent Abby to get a squirt bottle so I could do her hair. A little while later I heard her crying. I continued fixing my hair and thought, "oh Abby what now?" She continued to cry so I decided to wait to do my make-up and go check on her. Well I'm walking into the bathroom and said, "what's the matter honey?" She said, "bleeding." I quickly got all the way in the bathroom and found her in the bath tub with blood all over her (& her costume).

I proceeded to get the story from her. She was just trying to shave like daddy!

The Culprit

Poor little girl. She is so accident prone but a lot of her accidents are self inflicted. We love you Abby and your crazy, fun personality!

We will post pictures of our cute little puppies later after we get Abby's washed.

Happy Halloween!

Our trip to Laramie

On Thursday morning we got on the long road to Laramie. Boy I sure do not miss the drive at all but once you get there Laramie is such a great place. We miss it and every time we visit we are reminded of the memories we have there and how much we really do miss it. Anyway, Nick is going to get his MBA online and so he had to take the GMAT to see if he can get into the program. His test was Thursday afternoon so we decided to make a whole big trip of it. My sister Amber is going to school there so we got to play with her for the weekend. Here are some pictures and highlights from our fun trip!

Sorry these are not great pictures but they are all we have. We stayed in a hotel the first night and we went swimming. Trevor and Abby had a blast. Carter did not so much. He did however like helping us blow up all of the floating toys before hand. Thanks buddy!

Here is our pizza party after we went swimming.

My beautiful sister and my adorable kids! They love her.

ROLLING MAN! This is a fun game that Amber plays with the kids

Making cookies. We didn't have any cookie cutters so we sent Nick to the store and he came home with a box of 101 of them! We shouldn't have to ever buy another cookie cutter again. Anyway, there is just about every shape you can imagine and the kids had a really hard time choosing. They sure had fun though and we made a huge mess! Thanks Amber for being such a good sport and letting us trash your cute apartment.

Carter cleaning the floor after the cookies!

jumping and playing on Amber's bed. Aunt Amber is the coolest! She lets us jump on the bed.

We also went to the dinosaur museum and children's museum but of course I forgot my camera. The kids had a lot of fun at both places.

We had such a great time with Amber and it was good to be back in Laramie. Thank you Amber so much, we love you!

Last but not least, we got some ring pops for the kids on the way home. They had never heard of or seen them so they were so excited and thought they were the coolest things. We had to stop later on down the road and clean up the sticky messes!

yes I know, Abby's seat belt covers are not doing there job here. We later fixed that!

Abby thought it was neat to wear my sunglasses!


We went to church on Sunday and saw a lot of good friends and that is always a lot of fun. This was very good trip and we hope to do it again soon!

Annual Bull Sale

Oct. 22nd was the annual bull sale at the Micheli Hereford Ranch. This is the ranch that I grew up on in case some of you are not aware of that. Every year the ranch feeds a bunch of people lunch and then holds the big bull sale. Other ranchers come and in a live auction bid on the bulls. This year we sold 70 bulls, some Hereford and some Angus. It went really well and the kids had a blast. Trevor says that his favorite thing was the donuts and digging in the dirt. Abby and Carter loved watching the bulls and they both took naps in the barn. I actually used to help quite a bit with the bull sale but I have to admit that with kids I am no help at all and that I am just there for the entertainment and watching my children enjoy themselves. Thanks everyone for the fun and for letting us come be in the way!

This is Trevor digging in the dirt. I kept trying to get him to come see the bulls but he was content to stay in the dirt all day, and he did!

Hannah, Trevor and Abby taking a rest after the bull sale was over

Carter taking a nap in the barn under the bleachers

What we've been up to

We have been pretty busy lately but here are a couple of things we have taken time to take pictures of.


A really sweet lady at Nick's work bought the kids these little pumpkins. We thought about carving but I knew that I would be nervous to see the kids with a knife in hand and so I would have ended up doing it all. So we resorted to just painting our pumpkins. They had a blast and we pretty much just let them make a mess and enjoy it because we don't care about that floor in the basement (it will be a nice floor someday). Carter was green from head to toe but he had a grin from ear to ear!

These are pictures of our snowman from the first snow storm. We started our snowman the first day that it snowed but the kids got too cold so we had to finish it a couple days later. They were so excited to give him a carrot nose.

Nick the photographer caught the action of me tackling the kids. I then threw them in the snow and the loved it and kept coming back for more!

One Size Fits All

The kids love to get me socks in the morning when my feet are cold and they love to put them on themselves too! They will laugh about it for hours.


This is how Trevor and Abby helped me fold laundry this day



Here they thought that they were putting on our pants, close enough. Carter didn't want shorts on but he sure wanted to be by his best friends.



P.S. Notice my new bed. I just got it and I love it. I still have to find pillows!

Eights List

My cousin has tagged me, and she said I wouldn't do it so, I have to do it just in spite of her! Thanks Tiff! I have never done this so here goes nothing

8 TV Shows I like to watch... (we don't have TV but we used to and now we do netflix)
~The Office
~24 (as long as Nick is with me)
~What not to Wear
~Flip that house (almost anything on TLC)
~CSI
~Saved By the Bell
~Dancing With the Stars
~American Idol

8 Restaurants I like to eat at...
*Olive Garden
*Outback steakhouse
*Texas Roadhouse
*Applebees
*Pizza Hut-breadsticks
*Sizzler
*JB'S
*Spaghetti Factory

8 Things that happened today...
~showered, dressed and ready by 8:00am (wow that rarely happens)
~House cleaned and ready for company by 9:30am (wow that never happens)
~Visited with mother in law who stopped by for a minute
~Had play group at my house, lots of kids and yeah adults to talk to
~finished making the labels for the toy room (now the kids can clean up, ha ha)
~babysat a couple kiddos
~Cooked Dinner
~Had friends over for dinner

8 Things I am looking forward to...
*Tomorrow (Saturday)
*Thanksgiving
*Christmas!!!!
*Summer (It may be a really long winter)
*Carter being out of diapers
*Elections being over.
*Owning my house
*The day that I have my clean house that lasts

8 Things on my wish list...
~A clean and organized house
~A makeover
~A vacation
~A brain that worked a little better
~All of my friends and family closer to me all of the time
~More patience
~More money to help others with
~And of course sleep (what every mother wishes)

8 People I tag...
Haley Davis, Jessica Taylor, Anne Roberts, Jill Allen, Melissa Jensen, Natalie Smith, Megan Clements and Becky Owens. Anybody else that wants to give it a try I would love to see it!

This was a lot harded than I thought. I am really glad it was not one of the really long ones! I'll be checking to see who does it!

Random pictures

Here are some cute pictures that I thought might be enjoyable.

Pictures: aunt Cami with our three little munchkins(first 2), Trevor and Carter reading a story together, Carter talking on the phone, Trevor feeding Jamie (a little girl we were babysitting), Carter's messy face from eating dirt, kids at the dinosaur museum in Laramie, Carter playing on the rocks, Trevor is king of the rock, Abby climbing on rocks in Laramie, Carter eating chocolate cake, Dad playing ball with the kids, Trevor's 1st day of school, Abby wanting to go to school.

Hope you enjoy! Sorry that I don't know how to put the description with the picture.