Carving Pumpkins

Yesterday Logie, Shutterbug and I carved our pumpkins. Logan loves pumpkins for some reason and gets really excited when he sees them...so I figured he'd love carving pumpkins. And of course he did...he just didn't like putting his hand in the pumpkin and taking out all the guts. Here's a video of it. He just wanted Mom to do it. His favorite part was trying to get the top of the pumpkin to go back on. :-) Next year I bet he digs right in and gets all the gunk out.

Side Note: Logan just LOVES the shirt he has on in the video. Grandma Meyer got it for him for Halloween. He thinks it's so cool cause it lights up. He wants to wear it every day. I've had to wash it almost every day this week for him. Oh well, it makes him happy!







Sherri helped Logan with the knife work.

This is what Cody was doing while we were carving pumpkins.


The finished products. The one on the left is suppose to be an L and a C for Logan and Cody.


Here's a preview of what Logan and Cody will be wearing on Saturday. Logan's daycare is having a Halloween party today so he got to wear his costume today as well. As for Cody he's got three costumes...or well...really onesies. He's going to wear the Ghost one for actual Halloween, but here's him in his bones one below.

Bones.






Things have been going well here. Brian's out in ND hunting right now, but should be back tonight or tomorrow. Then he's got another week of paternity time off. It's going to be great having Daddy home with us for a week...then Mom's back to work! :-(

Cody's really smiling a lot these days. Here's a video I took of him the other day. He really likes his changing table and smiles pretty much every time you put him on it...that and cause you're taking off his clothes and he likes to be naked.



As for Logan...well he's just at the "I can get into everything...no really EVERYTHING" stage. He'll push his little stool over to the counters and can reach almost all the way to the back, so literally nothings safe on the counters. He's figured out how to open the doors now too...only twice have I found him out in the garage playing. Yes he can open the door to the garage...stinker!

Here's a couple pictures of the boys during bath time. Both Cody and Logan love their baths.

Redneck Swing

Someday maybe Logan will get a real swing outside...but for now this works...



Cody at 6 weeks

Watching TV with Dad

Corn Maze

Not too much going on at the Ranch this weekend. Sunday we took advantage of the gorgeous weather and went to the Shafer Corn Maze with Debbie, Mikey, Stella, Weston and Becky. It was a lot of fun. They had a petting zoo with ducks, miniature horse, calf, goats, pigs, etc. They've got two main Corn Mazes, one short one and one longer one. We did the short one. Logan loved running in a the maze and took the lead right away. We just let him run for a while, get us good and lost, and then Brian and Mikey took over and figured out where we were and how to get out. Here's a few pictures...





Logan stuck in the spider web.


Stella was dancing to the music.




This is what Cody did the whole time we were there.











Before we went to the Corn Maze though, we stopped at Becky's house. She's got two horses at her house right now that she's boarding for a friend. Logan LOVED sitting on the horse! In the video he's laughing not crying...it was pretty comical!

Boots and Smiles

The big news at the Ranch is Cody is smiling! All day yesterday he smiled. He didn't really smile for me much, but he smiled for Auntie Kim a lot. She was lucky enough to get it on camera too! He's so cute! The picture is kind of blurry, but you can definitely tell he's smiling! He's getting so big so fast! Three more weeks off before Mom has to go back to work and little Cody mouse has to go to daycare.



Boots = Smiles for Logan. I got Logan his first pair of winter boots on Wednesday and he loves them! He loves shoes anyways; loves putting them on and taking them off. He walks around the house in his shoes all day long. And of course the boots are even cooler than the shoes. The nice thing about the boots is that he can put them on and take them off himself. His shoes he needs some help still, so the boots are a nice break for Mom. Auntie Kim was fortunate enough to get this video of Logan playing with his new boots and if you listen carefully you'll here him say, "ba-ball" aka "baseball". He loves to watch Brian play baseball on the Wii and anytime he sees the Wii controllers he thinks we're going to play "ba-ball". He also just really likes baseball and football. He was so excited when we went to the Osceola High School football game a couple weeks ago. He was jumping up and down and saying "foo-ball". We were at Target picking out his sheets for his "big boy" bed and of course he wanted the sheets with the "ba-ball" on them. It's so cute!

Meyer Family Pictures

Here's a sample of the Meyer Family pictures from this weekend. They turned out great!

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Ever After Pphotography By Laura

One Month

Can you believe Cody's one month old already? Ok, so he's technically older than that cause this post is late, but seriously has it been a month already? He's definitely gotten bigger, but he's still just a little peanut, or as I like to call him "Mini Mouse"...mini like small not Minnie like the girl mouse.



Here's a few videos from Oct. 8th. Just me and the boys hanging out...





What else has been happening at the Ranch...

Here's a picture of Logan going "nigh night".



We rearranged the upstairs bedrooms so that Logan has his "big boy" bed in the bedroom at the top of the stairs. He's not sleeping in it yet since Cody's still sleeping in the bassinet in our room, but it won't be long and Logan will be moving to the "big boy" bed. I think he's starting to get ready for it, as you can tell by the picture above. He loves to climb on the couch and cover up and go "nigh night". Only problem is he never actually falls asleep...he just lays there for about two mins and then jumps up and starts playing again. Oh well I'm sure we'll figure it out when the time comes. He's also been very interested in going potty on the "big boy" potty. Of course he always tells us after he's gone, but at least he's interested in it. Brian and I aren't really going to start trying to potty train him until after Christmas, but it's a good sign.

Since winter decided to trump fall and come early, Logan has to bundle up when he goes for 4-wheeler rides with Brian. This was him ready to go outside a week or so ago. Hehe the jacket's a little small for him...



This past weekend we had a photographer come out to our house and take some pictures of the entire Meyer family...all 18 of us! It was really funny to see so many people wearing white shirts and jeans! I hope the pictures turn out good, which I'm sure they will. Here are a few snaps from Saturday.

Auntie Carey and Weston


Auntie Kelly and Weston (Happy Birthday Kelly on Oct. 8th!)


All the Grandkids!


Uncle Mike, Weston and Cody


Finally here's a video of Logan from this morning...funny little bear!

Tech Time with Tee

I meant to do this Tech Time with Tee before Cody was born, but he surprised us by coming early and I just haven't had a chance to get back to it.

This one is a bit of an oldie but a goodie. It's been around for a while, but really great so still worth mentioning to people. It's Pandora Radio, a free on-line radio station that plays only music you like. When you get to the site you tell it the artists that you like to listen to and it will automatically find more music by similar artists. You can create different radio stations as well, so you could have a country radio station, a rock one or a workout one. I listen to this at work a lot when I get sick of listening to the music in my i-Tunes collection. It's completely free so try it out. You can also upgrade to a paid version, but the free one works great!

Cold season upon us!

Yup, the cold season is upon us. Cody has his first cold and Logan's got a runny nose as well. I just feel so bad for Cody; the poor little guy can't breath through his mouth yet, so he really just can't breath. Luckily he only really struggles at night. During the day he's fine, but at night when he's been laying flat he really struggles to breath. We're lucky though, it could be a lot worse. Cody's clogged tear duct has also seemed to clear up as well. His poor eye has been constantly gonked up, but for the last couple of days it's been really good. We've also learned that Cody really likes to sleep on his side or his stomach. As you can tell from the pictures. This is good cause we've figured out how to get him to sleep in his bassinet, but it's obviously not good because he's not suppose to sleep on his side or stomach when he's this little. He does have a really strong neck though, but I'm still very nervous when he sleeps.




Logan's doing well. Always asking to go for 4-wheeler rides. I don't think he's going to like winter and being stuck in doors very much. He loves to be outside doing stuff with Daddy. He just gets so excited when Brian comes home from work and takes him outside for a little bit. At least this winter we'll get him some boots and snow pants and he can go outside and play in the snow with Daddy. I bet he'll love that!

Here's a picture of me and Logie playing with his rings. He loves to put these rings on his arms and walk around. He'll also put them in a Tupperware bowl, then take them out and count them, then put them back in. It's funny to listen to him count cause his favorite numbers are 2 and 9, so it goes a little like this...2, 9, 2, 9, 2, 9...you get the pattern. :-)



As for Mom, I have my good days and my bad days. Some days I can't wait to get back to work and a normal routine for our family, but other days I'm so sad that I won't be able to hang out with my boys all day long. I'm also feeling a little trapped in the house some days. I try to get out of the house as much as I can, but there's just not much you can do with an 18 month old and a newborn. Oh well, nothing lasts forever and I know I should just enjoy the time I have with them now. Although I did feel like I hit a low spot this morning when I genuinely got excited about a new show on the Disney channel, Jungle Junction. I need some adult conversation...