The great pumpkin

Last week Colin and I went to a pumpkin patch with some other moms and kids from church. I'm not really sure what Colin was thinking the whole day. He would not smile and just had a puzzled look on his face the whole time. He was facinated with the petting zoo and got very excited when he saw the chickens. And those were the ugliest animals there! It was hard trying to restrain him while he tried to reach for the chickens. He wasn't sure about the rest of the animals; and as you can see didnt think much of the pigs when they snorted. Almost as if he was saying What are those things?!?!

He is very proud of his pumpkin and loves to play with it.... or really just tries to eat it.

Bible study fun

This week for bible study I asked the girls to come dressed as their favorite bible verse. Can you guess which ones they were?

Balloon Fest!

So the long awaited Balloon Fest came and went. We were looking forward to it last year, but rain prevented the balloons from leaving the ground. This year we were determined that it wouldn't rain. Okay, we had little say in that, but it turned out great! We made sure Regis and Sarah came into town for it. They told us that if it rained they would never come back to Morgantown! We all enjoyed watching them bring out the balloons and start to inflate them. Even more amazing to see them all take off!




We actually had so much fun on Saturday afternoon, that we went back EARLY Sunday morning to see if we could catch some great photo opps. The balloons were inflated and in the air in less than 20 minutes, so you had to be quick with the camera.





Another highlight from the day was going up in a hot air balloon! Thats right, in two shifts we all went up in a hot air balloon for the first time. And it only cost $5! Of course you get what you pay for.... we jumped in, they shot hot air into the balloon, and then we lifted off! Bummer was, after getting about 40 feet up in the air, we felt a big tug and those darn ropes pulled us back down. Yea, we were in a tethered balloon so thats as high as it went! So we got our taste of riding in a hot air balloon. Everyone but Colin... as he was too little to take a ride and against his will, had to stay on the ground. One day little man!

Princess Snowbird Retreat

A few weekends ago we had mens and womens camping trips. It was a good way for the freshmen to really get connected, meet the upperclassmen and make friends. The girls went to a farm and roughed it out with no bathrooms - AND heard a few coyotes! Whereas the boys went to Sceneca Rocks and stayed at the "Princess Snowbird" campground with an indoor swimming pool nearby, plus hot showers and bathrooms. HAHA - It sounds like the guys were really the "girls" for the weekend!There were over 30 girls who went and about 24 guys. Pretty crazy that more girls wanted to go camping than guys! Dispite the rain, everyone had a great time and plenty of bonding took place.

And the little one said roll over...roll over

Colin is 5 months old today! Its so crazy how fast time flies and even to think about the tiny infant we brought home. Now Colin plays, giggles and talks all the time. Well we both try to get him to giggle - Brent is more successful than I am! He loves chewing on our faces or giving us kisses as I like to think about it but when he does it to Brent, his scruffy face tickles Colin and he laughs and laughs.... its just not the same when he does it to mommy (thank goodness!)



His new thing is rolling over in his crib - when he doesn't want to go to sleep and also when he's waking up from a nap. Lately we have to position him in the crib so he won't be able to roll over or he'll roll over and then whine until we go in and rescue him. I will admit that he's awfully cute with his head poking over the crib bumper with a helpless look on his face like what did I do and help me please. We feel like horrible parents sometimes though because we'll put him down to sleep and he'll babble and start to put himself to sleep - we leave and hear him babbling/whining for a few minutes and then usually he'll be asleep in about 10 minutes. Well a few times we've done that and 10 minutes go by and he's still complaining so we wait longer and then when we finally go in and check on him he's on his stomach (he had flipped over) so we put him back and within seconds he was sound asleep. So when we thought he had been complaining about going to sleep he was really crying out for help.