O Christmas Tree!

My aunt and uncle own a Christmas tree farm in Lake Oswego and my family has begun a tradition of getting our trees together! This past Saturday was the chosen day for this event and we had a great time. Grandpa kept the boys busy playing "drums" in the garage as we were all getting ready to go!

Bright eyed and bushy tailed!Marshall obviously ran for the tractor the minute we set him on the ground...now joined by cousin Deakan.

Marshall's looking for the perfect tree...

...but Matt is the one who found it.
Daddy's little helper!

And Marshall got the end the trip with a tractor ride with aunt Laura.

A little early Christmas prep!

Now I know it's not even Thanksgiving yet but sometimes I feel like Christmas comes and goes so fast that I really want to enjoy the whole season this year. Thus leading me to start my Christmas projects early. We haven't had stockings up until this point because every time I looked at the stores I couldn't find something I liked or I thought was even worth what it was priced. So this year I decided to take matters into my own hands and create our very own stockings. And since I just finished them last night I couldn't very well just leave them in a box, no they needed to be up on the wall! So here is my first Christmas project! I have another cutout for the baby but we don't know the sex or name yet so we'll wait and add that one next year!

Just a little snapshot of Marshall. He likes to wear my running shoes, yes with his little ankles crossed, while he watches Veggie Tales!

Ps - For those of you, Chels, who have requested a pic of my belly to see what I look like prego right now, you'll have to wait until I look officially cute and pregnant! It might be a while....

It's so cute when you're pregnant with your first child and nothing is stretched yet. Not the case with the second one. Just look like I've put on a few pounds:)

Outward Church!

Well I finally have a few minutes, a computer and an occupied child in order for me to update my blog! I have tried the last few days but couldn't get online...sad. Anyways I don't have any new cute pics of Marshall so I decided to post some pics of the other love of our lives, Outward Church. I realized that many of my blogging friends haven't been able to come to Outward so I wanted to show a few pics of what goes on for us every Sunday night!
God is doing awesome things at the church and we are so excited to be a part of it! Enjoy!
Oh yes and pictures compliments of Michelle Young of course!

Outside of the theater!

Our other worship leader, Grae.

Matt speaking...he might be praying here I think his eyes are closed!

Matt leading worship.

Aaron our associate pastor speaking!

Okay so I did find one cute picture of Marshall and the backside of Deakan in the nursery!

Trick-or-Treat!

Yes I believe I am definitely an overachiever by getting my Halloween pics up even before the night is over! This is mostly for my mom to be able to see the pics of the grandboys since she wasn't here. We had so much fun tonight! Heidi and Deakan came over as well as Matt's mom. We got the boys dressed and tried to take a few pictures. It was hot in my house so I decided to take Marshall out into the garage to take some pics. Well the garage is now Marshall's new playground so the pics you see are actually of me running around after him trying to snap a few good shots. Deakan however was the perfect child and stood completely still for his mommy to take pictures.
We headed out into the neighborhood and the boys were a hit. Everyone kept calling their families to come look at them in their costumes. It was really cute. They both did great carrying their little baskets up the door for candy! We rent a cheap apartment in one of the nicest neighborhoods in town and they were giving out full sized candy bars! Way to go Marshall...now that Marshall is in bed Matt and I are about to watch a movie and raid Marshall's treat basket:) It's not actually that mean because he can't have all that candy anyways. Plus it's the only year we'll be able to do this as next year he'll be two and will be fully aware that his candy is his candy!
Hope everyone had fun tonight!

Baby Porter #2!

So here is the vey first viewing of Baby Porter #2! Everything is where is should be, arms, legs and such:)
The little guy (Matt refers to the baby in male form already) was wiggling all over the place during the ultrasound. Even though we've gone through this before it's still so amazing watching that little thing move!
I'm feeling great so I'm really thankful for that! The next update will be in a couple months when we find out if it's a boy or girl!

Pumpkin Carving!

So after our eventful morning at the pumpkin patch and a good nap, Marshall and I attempted to carve his pumpkin! It turned out to be more like me drawing and carving and Marshall playing. Well he did at least help with the scooping!

Don't worry he didn't actually take a bite but it was his first reaction!


This was after he threw the pumpkin on the ground when I handed it to him!

My cheap creations!

I have been searching for the perfect headband and have not been able to find one. So I found a skinny one at Walmart for .96 and decided to cover it! Here are the results of my efforts. It's perfect and it's exactly what I wanted! This is mostly for Michelle who is dying to have a few of these...cute huh?

Pumpkin Patch

So we finally made it to the pumpkin patch! Weekends are really busy for us so we went this morning! I also can't believe how expensive it is to go to these places on the weekend. We thought it would cost $3 for each of us to get in today but we went and they said to just come on in and just pay for your pumpkin in the store! I was thrilled! Our whole pumpkin outing cost us .89 for Marshall's pumpkin! I was very happy to get such a great deal! Anyways we took some great videos but I always forget how to upload them. So I'll have Matt do it later and put them up soon!

We attempted to take a nice family picture but unfortunately Marshall had already seen the giant tractor and would not sit still!

So here's a nice pic of Matt and I:) Marshall is running across the field toward the tractor!

He was hilarious in here! Running from animal to animal saying their respective sounds!

No smiles. He's totally serious when playing on tractors!