Rice Cereal

This past weekend we went to La Crosse to visit my parents. It was also the weekend before Rylie's 4 month doctor appointment, so we brought the rice cereal along to give it a try. She had a bit of a puzzled look on her face and more of it ended up on her bib than in her mouth, but we'll keep working at it.

Yummm

Let me try this!

We spent most of the weekend just hanging out, enjoying the nice weather.

A Night Out!

Our first night out since Rylie was born was to the Freight House for our 1st anniversary dinner. As a gift, I gave Dan tickets to a concert he really wanted to see...Eric Church. He was playing at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee on Thurs. November 5. So our second night out was to the concert. We met up with one of my co-workers John and his girlfriend Maura at Mo's Irish Pub for a couple drinks before the concert and then walked over to Pabst Theater. I hadn't been in there before and it's really a neat venue for a concert. It was a great show...there isn't a bad seat in that place!


Eric Church

Murph & Maura

Dan lovin' the silos

Trick or Treat!

Rylie is a little too young and it was a little too cold for Trick or Treating this year, but she did get her costume on to hand out candy. We were out running errands, so we only made it home for the second hour of trick or treating. And unfortunately, didn't get ANY trick or treaters. In any case, we had the cutest little ladybug in town.



hey...where are all the kids?

Our pumpkins...Mommy's Rylie's and Daddy's

First Pumpkin

A few weeks ago we went with Jerry and Trudy , Chris, Leslie, Michael and Brady to get our pumpkins. The place we went didn't have quite the set up that they had the year before so we didn't get the pictures we had hoped. It was also about 30 degrees that day, so it wasn't the best weather for pictures either. But Rylie did get her first pumpkin and we went to Grr and Grr Mom's afterwards to carve it.

Rylie's first little pumpkin

Today we were able to get to the pumpkin farm by our house to get the fall pictures we had hoped to take. It ended up to be a really nice day, so Rylie and I went for a walk through the neighborhood first and then we headed over to Basse's Taste of Country. We're still hoping to get a few pictures in our yard with the leaves...if we ever find time to rake them!

Ready for a walk!

We attempted to carve all of our pumpkins this weekend too, but we only got as far as cleaning them out. Uncle Patrick made sure his was clean enough to wear.

"Talkin"

Rylie has been doing a lot more "talking" the past couple of weeks. Once she gets going, she doesn't stop! Here's a little video I took yesterday after work.

Snow in October?

Well, we didn't actually have any snow here in Germantown, so Rylie has yet to see the snow, but this past weekend, she attended her first snowmobile show...as did I. She sat on her first snowmobile too. We were hoping to see a Kitty Cat there, but didn't have any luck. So she settled for a seat on the big ones with mommy and daddy.

Daddy, you're on the wrong color!

Much better

Those that know me well, know that I thoroughly enjoy my retail therapy. In college, my roommates knew when I didn't feel good about a test I had taken...I came home with several shopping bags. I didn't even need that as an excuse- it was just worse on those days. For the most part, if I walked into a store, I bought. Things haven't changed much. I left the show with new Arctic Cat pants, a coat and a new helmet!

My mom was in town for a long weekend spending some extra time with Rylie. She watched her while we were at work on Thursday and Friday and stayed through Sunday. So she had her first snowmobile show experience too. She was often left with the stroller and the baby because the crowd was pretty thick, but I don't think she minded too much. And what did we do the next day? Shopped at the mall! What else do three generations do when they get together!?!

Three Months Old!

Here are a few of Rylie's 3 month pictures. The first is what usually happens when I put the camera in front of my face. She'll be smiling away, but as soon as I bring the camera up, she looks like this:

What the heck is that?

So I do my best to line up the shot with the camera next to my face.

Here's my foot

Am I getting rolls?