Island Gymnastics

Allen had a men's retreat for church Friday and Saturday, so Harper and I decided to head to Island Gymnastics. They have a fun gym for the little guys on Friday nights and under 2 is free-extra bonus. Harper was a little shy. He really enjoyed the giant trampoline, but so did all of the kids. We will try it again and hopefully he will feel more comfortable there.

He was also more interested in his snack then playing

Mouth full of Cheese Its
Crawling through a tunnel

Trying to take his picture on the trampoline, but he kept walking toward me

Harper got sick for the first time Friday night. Luckily he woke up fine on Saturday-just the clean up wasn't fun. Allen was happy that he was away!

Sorry we haven't blogged lately, I was on a roll for awhile. We just haven't done anything blog worthy lately! Hopefully our lives will get exciting again soon!

Random Pictures

New Cell Phone

I finally got a keyboard cell phone-watch out I will be texting all of the time now. Allen got it for me for my birthday (yes-I just turned 30). I am retiring my 6 year old phone that still had an antenna. I don't know what we will talk about at parties now, that I can't get made fun of and have to pull out my super old phone! Thank you Allen for bringing me into this century!

Goodbye to Uncle Ray

Jenny, Harper and I headed to Michigan for a few days. My Uncle Ray was dieing of cancer and we wanted to drive up to say goodbye to him. We were able to spend a few wonderful days with him. His health was deteriorating as we headed home. They moved him to hospice and it was only a matter of time before he passed away. He actually died on his 68th birthday.

Uncle Ray was married to my Aunt Marybeth. They were our closest aunt and uncle growing up. We spent many Friday nights at their house, enjoying pizza and Blizzards. During the summer we spent many weekends at their cabin on the lake. We would borrow the neighbors windsurf board and pretend we were surfing even though there were never any waves. Ray also offered to let us drive his truck when we were way too young to even think about it. One time I used my Cabbage Patch Kids tape player to tape him snoring, just to prove that he snored. He always let us tease him and he just took it. We got older and stopped hanging out as much and then I moved away. He continued to help Jenny out as a single mother. He even threw out his shocks on his truck moving patio bricks to her house. He would mow her lawn and shovel her driveway. He often took Allen fishing while we were home-just a nice treat for Allen to get some man time. Allen and I would depend on Ray to pick us up from the far away Detroit airport. He would never complain about it. He always did so much for our family.

We will miss you Uncle Ray. We loved you very much!
Even though our trip was very sad to say goodbye to Ray. It was nice to spend time with family. My Aunt Linda hadn't met Harper yet so that was good to see her.

Harper and Great Grandma Stone

It was also great to see Harper play with his cousins-Natalie and Nathan.

Don't get any ideas about a drumset for Christmas!

We took Lily with us, so that Allen didn't have to deal with her. Nathan loved taking care of her and it looks like Lily took a liking to Nathan too!
A big thanks to Allen for staying with Jasmine so she didn't have to take time off of school. You are such a great uncle!

Family Day

Allen, Harper and I headed to Sea Pines for a great afternoon. The weather was perfect-it almost felt like fall! We started at the petting zoo. It was even better than I thought it was going to be. They had lots of goats and horses- big ones, ponies, miniature horses and even a Clydesdale, donkeys, chickens, bunnies, deer, turtles, pigs and some hairy goat thing-maybe a ram.
Harper was obsessed with the turtles. Even with all of the other animals, he kept going back to the turtle pond!

There was a sweet baby deer running around free. He let you pet him and everything.

This goat is sleeping on the barn!

The Clydesdale horse

Then we headed to Harbourtown for a picnic by the marina. We then played on the Harbourtown playground.

Halloween

Harper and I had a pretty quiet afternoon, we didn't really start Halloween until Allen got off of work. I got Harper ready so we could leave as soon as Allen got home. Unfortunately, Harper has my hair and it didn't stay like this for long. I gelled, hairsprayed and even ratted it and it just kept falling.

Not happy about wearing his costume again!

We have entered the terrible twos. He likes to lay down and cry it out!

Happy again

First, we headed to Mark and Erin's to see the grown ups dressed up for Halloween. Clayton and Grayson actually won the best costume prize at Okatie Ale House for being Mark Sandford and his Argentina mistress. What made it even funnier is that Grayson is pregnant! Other costumes incuded-wife beater with barefoot and pregnant, a whoppy cushion, very scary rock band with groupies. We only stayed a few minutes because we had to meet the Jacobis at our house so Harper and Cole could take pictures together. The boys were too active to get any good shots this year!

Harper loved the pumpkin flashlight

Cole is Curious George

The boys last year

After the Jacobis left, we took Harper trick or treating. We didn't get many treaters at our house, but the first group that came, Harper tried to leave with them! He was so excited to get to finally go. Unfortunately all of the neighbors by our house just left candy bowls on their front porches. We only found one house where there were people handing out candy. Harper wasn't shy at all-he even went in their house and we didn't know these neighbors! We didn't plan ahead to bring the stroller and the houses are too spaced out, so we went home defeated! Luckily we have a lot of our candy left for us to eat! Harper had so much fun and we loved watching his excitement!

Too much candy corn for dinner!

Tiger Bass 5K

We started off Halloween with a 5K race at Hampton Lake. Harper got to wear his Dracula costume. Allen pushed Harper in the stroller and kept the pace for both of us. We ran faster than I normally do, but I held in there. We ended up finishing in 31.06. I was pretty impressed with our time, since that is almost 9 minutes faster than our 5K four months ago. I am not sure why the pictures are so foggy, but I think that it just shows how hot it really was!

Before the race

After the race

Harper in the car at home after the race