Pumpkin Patch Party!

Gilcrease Orchard

Owen visited his first pumpkin patch last weekend!  We went to Gilcrease Orchard, just a few miles from the house.  It's a pumpkin oasis in the middle of our giant desert city and quite an impressive sight to see when you're used to strip malls and rock gardens!

Pumpkin King

Mommy and Owen

Daddy and Owen

Happy Boy!

Family Shot - 10/2011

Owen is going to be a monkey for Halloween - his costume just arrived from Amazon.com yesterday.  Yes, I'm slightly obsessed with Amazon!  We're also expecting his mobile to come today.  It's super fancy with a remote control and image projection!  We're attempting to move him to his room this weekend - yes he still sleeps in our room in his cradle!  Blake's been painting his room this week for him - it's a nice rich tan color.  We're planning on (we as in Blake!) painting Jungle Book themed images from the Disney movie on the walls too - can't wait to see the final product!

New Firsts!

So we've had an exciting few weeks in the Gilmore household!  First we got a new car!  My poor little Accord was having some transmission issues and was just a sad girl... it would have cost too much to fix to then be stuck with a car that doesn't fit our family so I've been on the hunt for a great deal (you know me, are there car coupons?!) and found the perfect one at Carmax!  A friend recommended them and I love that they offer an extended warranty on used cars so we were very excited when we found a 2003 Ford Explorer that we could actually afford and that our whole family would fit in!  It's golver (gold and silver...??) and I love it!!!  Yippee for all the fun family adventures we will have in our first family car!!

Owen is a PIG these days and will eat and eat and EAT!  This boy has never turned down food in any form so we thought why not try giving him a little rice cereal....  It was a hit!  Like I figured, he'll eat anything!  We had a nice messy time trying it out!  At first his little tongue would pop out but he'd want more, and after a few bites he got the hang of it and was slurping it down like a pro!

What do I do with this stuff mom?

Oh... OK!

Hurry give me some more!

 Owen also turned 5 months!!  He's such a good happy baby!  If only he'd go back to sleeping through the night!  He's waking 1-3 times a night to eat... no surprise there! My boy likes to EAT!  Thankfully Daddy helps out a lot and will change him and even run downstairs and make a baba to give me a break.  We make a good team! :)

October 11th, 2011 - 5 months old!

New trick!

Owen has learned a new trick!  He can now roll over from his back to his tummy!  We lay him on his back and within seconds he's on his tummy looking around.  I think he's finally gotten tired of staring at the ceiling! :).  At daycare the other day they wrote on his daily summary "Owen had a great time showing all his friends he can roll over"!  So cute!

I've been working on my photography skills with the Canon 20D I got from S&S.  Still trying to figure out what the heck I'm doing, but I must say thanks in part to the cutest model ever I think I'm getting better! This one believe it or not was even taken on MANUAL! :)  Still need to work on the focusing a bit I think... maybe next week!  Speaking of photography I WON a 45 minute photoshoot with DW Photography! I entered a Facebook contest and I won!  I'm so excited to get some family photos taken of us!  The only ones we have are the ones when Owen was just 10 days old.  

Taken October 2nd, 2011.  20-1/2 weeks old!

No more photos mom!

Such a sweet boy

That's all for now!