Miley's Birthday

Wednesday Miley turned one. In our family Jon is the creative and artsy person. But since he had to work up until the party, I had the honor of trying to create a cake. I decided to go with a ladybug, being something easy. I will have to say, for my first time at doing a cake, it didn't turn out too bad. It's a little more pink than red but I swear the frosting didn't look like it was getting any dark with the more food coloring I was putting in!

We had friends and family over and Miley loved it. She can't get enough of her baby and stroller. She puts just about anything in the stroller and pushes it around. Ryker enjoys it as well. It was something new for Ryker to have another kid in the family getting the toys. I don't think Miley got to play with any of her new stuff that first day. Hopefully he will grow out of that!

October Snow!

In all my life, the earliest I have seen snow was on Halloween. Well on Friday the Boise area received some snow, breaking a record set in 1969. I am not much of a winter fan so to have it already snow and not get above 50 degrees in October is a little depressing! On Saturady Ryker had a soccer game. He wouldn't play because he was so cold. Half of his team didn't show up either. Miley on the other hand wasn't phased at all and was ready to play for Ryker!

Before the game, we decided we better get Miley a pair of shoes, she loves to be barefoot. Getting used to the new shoes was a balancing act and she doesn't like to keep them on for too long, but she sure does love to chew on them!

For those of you who know my husband, Jon, you know that he can't do things the normal way..most of the time. On Sunday, while at the grandparents, they decided to carve pumpkins. Jon's parents had planted pumpkins, so there was plenty to choose from. Below is a picture of Jon using his power tool of choice, which is a jigsaw, for the activity. What ever happened to using traditional carving knives?