Before The Snow Comes

There were two things I really wanted/needed to do before it starts snowing. Since that could be as soon as tomorrow morning and as late as tomorrow night, I got them done today.

Task #1:
Move Grandmothers red rocking chair into the garage. Snow does not do good things for wood.

CHECK!


Task #2:
Take a picture or our house. I didn't want my first picture or the house to have include snow, so this was very important to me.

CHECK!

This is our house. It is no color that is very exciting, it's awfully close to the neighbors, the yard isn't huge, but we love it! When we were looking we saw all kinds of houses. We saw twin homes, old homes, one meth house, but nothing like this as far as bang for your buck. We weren't expecting anything nearly this size or young, so when we saw it, we just put in an offer. Two months later, it was ours.

It has 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, a living room, family room, mud room area, and it's on a cul-de-sac with a walking trail and field at the end. There really isn't anything special about the house itself besides the layout and the $$/sq ft, but we like it!

You can't really tell, but we have two trees in our front yard. Not in the picture is the maple and leafless, in front of the window, is mystery tree. I'm 99.9% sure it's not a Quaking Aspen. The trunk looks like one, but the leafs do not. If you know me, you know that trees are important, hence them earning blogging time. The back yard isn't huge, but it doesn't have another house in it (also important to me). There's some grass space, then a rock wall and a hill.

That is our house. We like it. There are lots of improvements I'd like to make over time (a long time), so I'll have to report as they happen. Any donations for Butterfield Home Improvement Fund would be greatly appreciated. We could even throw in a nights stay in our comfy "guest suite" as an appreciation gift.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is not my favorite holiday by any stretch of the imagination, but it was fun to dress Henry up. This year he was a monkey. We figured that was a fitting costume since he acts and sounds like a monkey. We even taught him to pound his chest like a monkey. We practiced and practiced, put on his costume and practiced some more, but yesterday he just wouldn't do it. He did enjoy wearing his costume. I think he wore it most of the day. Silly boy.

Monkey driving a car.

Notice the tail that got caught in the door?


Henry had fun watching for trick-or-treaters.


My little monkey.

Happy Birthday Henry!!

Thank you blogging world for reading my last LAME post. I tried to win a photo shoot but I did not win. No surprise there.

Because the last post was so lame and uninformative, I feel like I should actually write something informative. We really have been quite busy since my last post, so I'm going to try to catch up.

Henry turned 1 since my last real post! Happy Birthday Mr. Henry!! Emily, Ian, Emmett, Chelsie, and Janae all came down for General Conference. It was perfect timing! They were able to help us move into our house and be here for Henry's birthday party. We went to the city park here in Payson. We kept it low key, but it was fun. You might have noticed that the cake was a Costco one. Yumm! It was moving day and there was no way on Earth I was going to worry about making cake.

We love our 1 year old! He is fun, loves to be "helpful", cute, cuddly, energetic, easy going, and entertaining. We are so grateful to have him!

One Year Stats

Words: Mama, Dada, Teda (Teddy/any dog), whasat (what's that?)

Teeth: 7

Skills: Walking, manipulating objects, moving furniture, saying done with his hands (looks like "send it away"), blowing raspberries

Favorite things: Spatulas, stroller rides, Elmo, baths, Teddy

At first Henry wasn't sure about the cake thing,

but then he went to town.

The damage done.

Cleaning up in the park spicket.

Playing with some birthday presents.

In Need of Family Pictures!

I have been very much an absentee blogger lately, but there's been a lot going on. House buying, a few moves, Henry had a birthday, etc. More on all of that later.

I am here now for other reasons. I learned through Oregon people that there is an AMAZING photographer doing a photo session giveaway. I am here to let all of you know about it. Her name is Kristen Moss and you can check out her bog here. You really should check it out. She is amazing!

I feel like this post needs a picture, but I don't know that I even have any recent ones uploaded on my machine yet. See! I really need to win this photo giveaway!



P.S. Totally unrelated, but I don't like shows that require your undivided attention. They are very annoying and make me grumpy. Blog world: Thank you for that brief venting session.

11 Month Old Henry Baby

My little Henry baby is 11 months old (as of last Sunday)! Oh, how time flies. Besides being being all big and almost 1, he has also decided to take other steps to ditching the baby status. He's picked up walking! (Haha! He's taking "steps". I did not do that on purpose.) He took a few steps on his own early last month, but the decided he wasn't interested in walking and didn't try to walk anywhere with or without us holding his hands. Then he decided he was interested. Now he likes to try to walk everywhere. While exciting and extremely cute to watch, I'm kinda wishing he could have waited a little longer to learn this new skill. He was busy before, but now there is a whole new area of the world (kitchen) to explore. Really, it just motivated me to pack up everything but the bare essentials. He picks things up and brings them to me, sometimes (rarely) puts things back where he got them from, and regularly throws things in boxes for me. So, all things considered, I guess it's fun.

Notice the spatula in the bath tub? Don't worry. That one has been permanently assigned to the toy box.

The first of many facial falling injuries, I'm sure.

He has been very helpful lately. Teddy was at the back door letting us know it was time to let him in, so Henry went to let him in. Good effort.

He's been helping me pack,

make supper,

and empty my p.j. cupboard so I could box it up. I might not fill that back up for a while. It's just the right size for Henry to sit and play.

I have to admit. I love my baby boy. He's fun and I love spending my days with him. He's my best little bud.

P.S. Does it bug anyone else how Blogger takes the double spaces out between sentences? It sure bugs me!

It's August already?

So, like I said. I love summer and have obviously forgotten some things. Like how to take pictures. I was uploading the most recent and realized it's picture taking was not my strong suit in July. That's okay though. We've been having fun. Henry and I have been taking Mommy and Me swimming lessons. Obviously one cannot take pictures of that while your hands are full of baby and you're in the water, but I'm sure we'll get some of Henry demonstrating his new skills before the summer is over. Anyways, here are some of the few pictures I took in July.

4th of July corn on the cob for Henry!

Sparklers please?!

Emily, Ian, and Chelsie came down for Chelsie's birthday. While they were here we attended the Payson Scottish Festival, where we enjoyed Fish & Chips and root beer in cool bottles.

Later we went to Gardner Village, where Henry got to feed some ducks. The one on the left was kind of rude/aggressive and when we started to run out of Cheerios would jump up and dig them out from under Henry's leg. I thought this would frighten him, but Henry thought the duck was trying to play.

Henry (food) attracted quite the crowd.

After all of the company left, Henry was a helpful little boy and helped me roll up the air mattress. What a good helper!

Slacker Blogger

So, I've really stunk at blogging lately. I will eventually catch up. If I promise that I'll do it, I'm much more likely to. The truth is, I LOVE summer. I love being warm. I love that there are leaves on the trees. I love being able to drive and not have to worry about slipping across the road. I love slippers (flip-flops). I love shorts. I love not having to grab a jacket or two or three when I walk out of the house. I love trying to grow things (I'm not always successful). I love watering the things I'm trying to grow, even if they're almost dead. Summer is just the best! I can't let any of it slip by without enjoying it. Hence why I've been a worse than usual blogger. Of all the things I would rather be doing, blogging is not one of them. BUT I am way behind on Henry documenting and picture sharing, so I will get to it soon. I promise!