Hunt's Catch-Up

Happy 40th Tee Tees

This year was the "big one" for Steve. When I was little, I couldn't say Steve's name, I called him Tee Tees. I wanted to do something special for Tee Tees this year because he has been such a great big brother to me. Celebrating with friends and family was a great way to do it. With the help of his neighbors and friends we pulled off a surprise 40th that he will hopefully remember for a LONG time. I love ya brotha!

Steve with Joe, Thad, Eric and Ron

Hope you had a great day big brother!

So Much To Be Thankful For

This Thanksgiving we spent the day with both of our families. We went to my parents where Tyler and his cousins, Matt and Caleb, spent some fun play time together while we all caught up. After that we traveled to the Hunt's and had a fabulous turkey dinner! Thanks for all the great time and food to both of our families!

Caleb and Matt helped Tyler learn the shapes of a new favorite toy!

Matt sipping some of Grandmas hot cider

Grandpa Gary reading a book with Tyler after dinner

Me and my lovely glass of wine

Sue "slaving" over the stove

THE BIRD

Happy Halloween

Check out this little Dragon!!! We had a very fun FIRST Halloween. I have had Tyler's costume since August, so you can imagine my anticpation to get him into it. He looked even cuter than I expected!

The tail on his costume was stuffed so when he crawled around with his costume on the tail wagged from side to side, BONUS!

Penny, Tyler, Marcus and Jack-O-Lanter

We took Tyler to our neighbors, our only trick-or-treat stop...they had a ridiculous, gigantic sucker for him. Thanks Jack and Clairine!

This is Jacque, she is one of Tyler's teachers and he LOVES her! Tylers school had a trick-or-treat night and all the teachers and kids dressed up. We went from room to room trick or treating. It was a lot of fun. Tyler and I went with our friends Dave, Kristy and their daughter Mia, and Julie and her daughter Ellie. (Jason was away hunting where they didn't get an elk... again) We all had dinner together, then dressed the kids up and headed to what turned out to be a very busy trick or treat occasion.

How to Feed the Dogs

The other day I was home with Tyler and gave him some finger food to work on while I heated up the rest of his dinner. The next thing I knew he was cracking up laughing, I turned around and this is what I saw...

Pumpkin Exploration

This weekend we carved our first pumpkin! I cut off the top and let Tyler dig his hands inside to feel around. He didn't care for it at all, in fact when I gave him a lump of "pumpkin insides" to squish in his hands he picked it up and put it in the trash bag I had set out... that's my tidy little man! Regardless, we had fun doing it together and a pretty nice carving job by Mom if I don't say so myself :)

Kaiser Permanente

Recently, Jason had some photos taken at his jobsite... I have to assume that appropriate saftey measures were taken on site. Pretty amazing photo I thought.

Jason is the 5th set of legs from the end.

Bath Spaz

Tyler LOVES to have his bath and Jason does the most amazing job of making it super fun for him! He is just too funny lately from the gestures that he is learning to the funny noises he makes... this video captures it pretty good.... OUR BATH SPAZ

My Great Uncle and Aunt live in Pennsylvania and we don't get to see them as often as either of us would like. They were recently out this way for a wedding and we got to spend an afternoon with them. They were meeting Tyler for the first time and we had such a fun afternoon together.

Tyler was looking through Grandpa Mick's magazines. He pulled them all off the coffee table and then ripped a few pages out that he was interested in :)

Tyler still wasn't quite on all 4's with his crawling yet, still army crawling around so Larry took some time out of canning to help teach him... he was up and running and crawling like a champ the next day - thanks for the help Larry!

Grace, Caleb and Tyler

Larry and Tyler

Growing so fast...

Tyler has been busy growing over the last couple months... he's been very busy learning to pull himself up on just about anything, crawling, learning a couple "words" and cutting teeth. He has 6 teeth now, 4 on top and 2 on the bottom. He points at everything and is saying "ba ba ba", "ma ma ma", "da da da" and "na na na". He occasionally will say "Mom" or "Dad" too which we love! He loves the color blue and anything that is in the shape of a ball. He prefers to walk (with assistance from us still) and likes to practice as much as possible. Another favorite for him right now is trees, if the wind is blowing the leaves he is absolutely captivated, he points at them, then looking at me as if to say, Mom do you see this?

Tyler helps me do just about everything, we were watering the dogs this day and he stood by to assist.

This is Tyler one moring... he usually wakes up and crawls around the house in his jammies for a while exploring. He is such a happy baby!

Snack time

He LOVES books, loves to turn the pages, hear the stories and point to the illustrations and say things to them.

He is also busy learning how to be a Seahawk fan!

Pumpkin Patch

Tyler's first trip to a pumpkin patch was a great one! We met up with Jason's family and spent the afternoon at a petting zoo, climbing a haystack and finally picking out our pumpkins. Tyler had a blast on the haystack with Kamryn and on the train that took us all around the farm looking at the animals up close and finding our perfect pumpkins.

Seahawks 2010

Jason, Troy and I made the trip to the first Seahawk game of the year. We went early to the game and hit the beer gardens at the Pyramid Brewery, accross the street from Quest Field beforehand.

Jason and Troy's parking attendant friends had saved them a spot. We pulled in, and they had it all coned off for us.

The license plates make another appearance...

The Seahawk Mascot

Family Dinner

With Tyler eating mostly food now, it has been a lovely late summer of family dinners on the back patio :) I have been making his food for him and so far he is a fan!

Cannon Beach

It was time for Tyler's first trip to the beach. We got very lucky with the weather, it was sunny and warm, which is a RARE occurance at the Oregon coast :) We made a day of it, brought the dogs and spent the day travelling. We started out visiting Jason's jobsite in Hillsboro. We were the quintessential "Sunday Drivers" cutting off people we didn't see because we were creeping at like 5mph looking at the hospital. Oopsie :) It was amazing to see a building of that magnitude that Jason is building. I'm so proud :)

After a bit, Tyler was up from a nap and we found a nice rest stop to feed him breakfast and let the dogs have a break.

Tyler's toes in the sand for the first time... He loved the feel of the sand and seemed so surprised at the feeling too. There were shallow pools of water that was really warm and he really liked dipping his toes in those.