Labor of Love

Stockton was getting too big for his crib. After looking for new "big boy" beds, we couldn't find anything we liked or that would match Stockton's other bedroom furniture. Brady had a great idea. He decided that he would sand down his bed from when he was a little boy and restain it for Stockton.


He put in a lot of hours sanding. Thank you, NBA lockout, for allowing my husband the time to do this!


Then he stained it a color we love.


Stockton was so excited for his new bed! It's the perfect bed, complete with drawers beneath it.


Then we ordered a new bedspread for him. I let Stockton choose it, he choose "worker trucks!" He was so excited when they came in the mail! (Note: he's laying on our bed in the picture, not his new bed.)


And here's the finished project! Thank you Daddy for working so hard on my big boy bed! And here's the double bonus, there are actually two beds and they can be used seperate or as bunk beds and Brady finished them both at the same time! So it's ready for future use!

Next we need to get his room all decorated in "worker trucks." We have some curtains and some wall decals that match his bedspread, but we have yet to put them up.

Thanksgiving

We had a very pleasant Thanksgiving with the Haider Family.


My mother-in-law had made these darling turkeys and we had to write things that we are thankful for on the feathers. This is Stockton's turkey.


He was excited to eat it.


Brady's thankful turkey.


Brady's favorite part: the turkey leg!


Our little family.


Then we headed outside for some football/throwing leaves.

Thanksgiving 2011 from Rachel Haider on Vimeo.

I'm so thankful for these boys!

Later we headed out to Grantsville. All the Dennis Orgill family was down at the Church Street church havin' a party. So we dropped in. Stockton had a blast in the balloon room. They had a couple of huge fans blowing in different directions and it made the balloons go crazy.

Minute to Win it - Thanksgiving 2011 from Rachel Haider on Vimeo.

All the "big kids" were playing some fun "Minute to Win it" Games. Such a fun time!

First Snow

We got our first snow fall the beggining part of November. It wasn't much of a storm though. As you can see, we couldn't get very much snow to build a snowman. The poor little man was melted by the next day. But, Stockton was still proud of his first snowman of the season!