November so far and our house update!

Oh hey!  It's been awhile.

Now that we're halfway through November(hard to believe), I figured now would be a good time to update what we've been doing.  First of all, we said hello to sickness again once the cold weather hit.

Let's face it, it would have been out of character for us to not get sick.  We just really love it...

Luckily we were all feeling better by the time the snow hit so we could go outside and play!

 

While we're inside, we may get a little bored and have a fascination with the fish tank.

Even the dogs join in the fun.

Random side note: I need to develop a back bone...spine?  Whatever it is that gets me outside to run in the cold!  Marathon training sounds really great in the summertime...

Oh, and of course I have to post updates on our house.  Our house went from this:

end of october

To this:

first week of November

And now to this:

second week of November

I thought I was taking the picture front on but it doesn't really show the right side very well that has a piece extending out from it.  Also, we get to see a second floor and a roof next week.  It just keeps getting better and better.  

And some pictures of the inside:

Patrick is really excited about the stair part

We might happen to be those people that go every single day, sometimes twice a day, just to check everything out and walk around.  We love talking about colors, layout, decorations, etc.  We get a little impatient to have the house done, but mostly we're just trying to really enjoy this process because it's really a blessing and a lot of fun(for us) to go pick everything out for our home.  We could look at flooring all day...if only our boys had a longer attention span for this stuff. ;)

Halloween and any other picture I wanted to add from my phone

Sometimes I think about my posts and what I'm going to write or how I'm going to write them and other times, like now, I sort of dump everything we've been doing into one post.  Sooo...sorry if this post is a whole bunch of randomness.

First of all, my boys have been holding hands a lot more lately and I love it.  Completely love it.

On this particular day, Patrick was helping Aiden into his side of the car.  These two can fight hard but they also love hard.  I love to see their little relationship.

Our house is coming along since we started 1.75 weeks ago.

                                     

It's actually a little bit farther along now but I haven't taken pictures yet.  Next week, walls are going up!  We loooove taking trips down to our house.  Pictures don't do it justice.

Patrick thinks the construction site is one large playground.  Notice those pieces in his hand?  My sweet little child wanted to pick up everything the construction workers left behind because they were "being messy."  I think he would have cleaned up for a couple hours if I had let him.  

Since having children, I've done a whole lot of soul searching.  Children have a way of bringing out desirable as well as undesirable traits and I feel like some days I have no idea what I'm doing.  However, I've found that I'm definitely a one-on-one type of mom.  I love alone time with each of my boys and Patrick seems to thrive on that as well.  So, we decided to take turns doing mini dates with our boys each week.  Last week was my turn with Patrick.

A date is always better with frozen yogurt...

 And then as we were driving around, Patrick yelled that he wanted to go to the music store and "make some music!"  I was more than happy to take him and let him play on a little violin.  This kid...oh, he's too cute sometimes.  And I'm seriously thinking of starting him on violin and/or piano soon because he loves it.  Makes my heart happy.

Patrick's pre-school had a little Halloween party this last Wednesday and I had one excited little boy who wanted to show off his costume.

And of course we painted and carved pumpkins

I think Aiden is still trying to figure out the whole Halloween thing but Patrick didn't want last night to end.  And then this morning he asked me if it could be Halloween again.

Oh, just because.

Jon and I were lame and didn't even think about dressing up.  Didn't even cross my mind.  If we weren't already feeling bad about ourselves, some sweet old lady thought Jon and I were poor college kids with no job or money to dress properly...I don't know. I wasn't even in my workout clothes at the time. I blame it on the fact that Jon didn't shave that day?  She said it was his striped jacket.  I really just don't know...  At least she thought Aiden was cute.

After a little in town trick or treating with cousins, we headed out to Hibbard for our traditional chili and donuts.  

I say this a lot, but holidays are just a whole lot more fun with little kids.