We’ve Adopted!

We welcomed three new members to the Morris family last weekend.  Meet Chick Chick, Princess and YaYa!  The names may change, but for now these are the names the kids picked out for them (including Jed with “yaya!”) I don’t know which one is which, but they do. 

With a dog that has pretty much chewed up our house, a cat who thinks she owns the house and three little monsters who RUN the house, why not add some nasty chickens to the mix!  I’m not even sure we’re aloud to have them, but of course, rules don’t apply to Blaine.  After a few years of trying to convince me how nice it would be to have fresh organic eggs (I don’t even like eggs), I finally gave in and let the boys turn the tree house in the back yard into a chicken coup!  These little guys are only about 2 weeks old, so right now we have them in the garage in an old dog kennel under a heat lamp. 

GG adores them, Jed wants to squeeze them to death and Colbie is a little scared of them (kinda like her Mama!)

Speaking of kennels, we got Chase this fancy new triple XL kennel that fits a crib mattress to keep him from destroying our house when we leave.  You’d think at almost 9 years old he’d calm down a bit, but the poor guy completely looses his mind and throws temper tantrums every time we leave the house, taking it out on our doors, screens, couches, you name it.  So far, it’s been a fun place to lock up Grammy and the kids!

We had a nice Thanksgiving out at the in-laws first and then my brother & Kim’s second.  We basically ate Turkey and pie from about noon to 7 that day.  Blaine’s brother Tim made it down for the holiday and also to celebrate his 40th.  We hadn’t seen him in at least 7 years so it was nice for the family and the brothers to reunite. 

Having a big sister that likes to drag him all around, Jed has learned a not so good defense tactic and has started biting recently.  It’s usually Colbie that ends up getting bit and I honestly can’t blame him sometimes, but it’s definitely something we have to nip in the bud.  Colbie had a ball out at Buddy’s playing with cousin Brodie, who didn’t seem to mind her bossiness a bit and pretty much let her do whatever she wanted!

Jed took a few steps on his own last week, but still not officially walking.

The host and hostess with the mostess and their beautiful Thanksgiving table!

Uncle Johnny made it down this year!

The Saturday after Thanksgiving we had a small little party with a few of Colbie’s friends for her birthday.  I cannot believe our little girl is turning FOUR! II

Colbie is still obsessed with Frozen and Elsa.  I had absolutely no intentions of getting a piñata this year; however, a friend from work surprised us last week with the ginormous freaky Elsa!  The kids of course had a blast beating the heck out of it!

Happy early Birthday Colbie!  Even when you “grow big and big,” you’ll always be my baby girl! xo

Happy Birthday Jed Blaine!

I cannot believe this little guy is ONE already!  A little over a year ago, there was so much fear, worry and unknown.  We were camped out at Camp Andersons for over a month, going to 2-3 doctor appointments a week and just waiting, praying and hoping for the best.  Now, two heart cath procedures, two months of oxygen, lots of shots and tons of doc appointments later, we have such a happy, healthy adorable little boy.  We couldn’t be more grateful for the way  things have turned out for Jed.  He is such a blessing to our family and has taught us all so much about life, love and the power of prayer. 

I had these taken at J.C. Penney’s a few weeks before his birthday.  Lil’ Cowboy!!

Our little cowboy still isn’t walking.  I thought for sure he would have been by now, but he is very cautious and seems to prefer to crawl at this point.  Fine. With. Me!  He is eating most everything we have for dinner now, plus some baby foods still.  We’ve also started giving him whole milk in his sippy.  He loves most veggies and goes crazy for pizza or Mexican food.  His new word is “this.”  He point to everything and says “this, this, this…” until someone acknowledges the object he is pointing to and hands it to him.  Pretty demanding for a one year old!

We of course had to throw him a party and celebrate his health and such an amazing year!   Here is the birthday boy the morning before his party.

Since one of Jed’s favorite foods is pizza, we had his birthday at Brewers.  We mostly had family with some close friends.  And based on his cowboy pics, I went with a cowboy theme for his party!

Some of these pictures came out so blurry, but wanted to include them anyways for the book.  He was a little flirt with the ladies and clearly had a blast ripping through all the tissue paper!

I think he enjoyed everyone singing to him more than the actual cupcake, but he made a pretty good dent in his cupcake.

Papa keeping him calm after a long party and putting together his new rider with the kids.

Jed trying out his new rider and a random of G!

What a week!  We also had lots of fun festivities with Halloween being last Friday.  Here’s Colbie all decked out for crazy hair day for her fall carnival at school.

And here is our Ninja Warrior, Elsa and little duck!

This was Grayson’s first costume, so I thought it would be need to let Jed where it too. 

That’s Grayson on the right, just a couple months older than Jed.

Carved a scary man and kitty cat this year! 

Stopped by DeeDee’s for a trick-or-treat before the fall carnival at Yuma Lutheran. 

So with pretty much every little girl being obsessed with Frozen and Elsa this year, we weren’t surprised to run into several other Elsa’s at the carnival!  It made it difficult to keep track of Miss Colbie, especially because she likes to run off when she see’s a friend or something she wants to do.  Here she is with a little Elsa friend from dance!

After the carnival, we managed to get in about a half an hour of trick-or-treating.  Blaine took the kids while I watch my little duck and passed out candy.  Our neighborhood was once again completely insane… you easily go through about $50 of candy in an hour, and that’s being stingy!  Love seeing the kids, but adults with sacks sort of makes me furious… and unfortunately, we get lots of those.