We may invest in a snow blower...

There have been requests to see the front of the house, and now, I finally have a picture of it... along with all the snow I shovelled during Austin's nap.

 This is what we woke up to this morning!

 Heavy, wet snow!  Great for building a snowman, not for shovelling...

 The blade on that shovel is at least 8 or 9 inches.

 Poor Jeff walked to the bus stop in this before anything was shovelled - he probably has some wet socks today at work!

 Finally a picture of the front of the house!  We are planning on painting the outside of the house sometime next year.  The pink is.... okay.

We call this 'home' and we love it!

"I a the monster the Halloween!"

 My brother, Cameron, gave us this hand-me-down monster costume for Austin to wear this year.  It was size 18M and was a bit small, but he happily wore it and told us frequently he was going to be a monster for Halloween.

 I love the over-stuffed belly.  Goes with his cheeks!

 We went with a couple other friends.  Harrison, the skeleton, was in our ward in Denver.  We moved into their neighborhood and live just a block apart now.  James, the surprised horse (he wouldn't wear the hood), was a special guest at our house that night.  His mom was in labor so he went trick-or-treating with us and spent the night.  The boys had way too much fun!

Austin is satisfied with a Dum-Dum after a tiring walk around the block.

Happy 2nd Bday Austin!

 We had an early birthday celebration at my parents house.

 Austin had a great time with his cousins

 He got this cool little motorcycle! 

 Austin found our stash of gifts the day before his birthday and helped himself to one.  Inside was his first pillowcase from California Grandma!  He loves it and points out the owls and pumpkins.

 I got a little ambitious this year with his birthday cake.  I made a firetruck cake with surrounding fire cupcakes.  I used two boxes of cake mix!  We definitely should've scaled it down because we barely made it through half of this cake over a 1 week period!

 I think it turned out really cute.  Austin thought it was pretty cool too - even though he didn't eat any of it.

 "I see two fires!" 

Austin successfully blew out his candles and asked to blow out more "fires" for the few days following his birthday.

We had 5 other kid-O's there along with their parents.  It was a great time!

What would Fall be without jumping in some leaves?

 Austin's first time in a pile of leaves...

It was a hit! Now he can't get resist when he approaches a crunchy leaf.