First Day at school!

For Austin and me. Lots of stuff to bring to work!! I am working at the Parent's Day out program up at our church three days a week, 9:30-2:30. I am working with the 2-3 year olds, and Austin gets to go to the baby room for free!! Bonus! Busy first day for me and him. When I picked him up at the end of the day I was told he had a great first day. He had "colored" a bus. And by colored I mean, a line of green, and line of blue. She also told me I might want to bring him more food for lunch. I was like...yeah, he eats a lot....so...I mean I packed him a whole hot dog, six or seven grapes, about a half a cup of mixed veggies, several teddy grahams. Plus I gave him a snack before I dropped him off. He is an eating machine.

Posing for the camera. Tell grandpa how excited he is for school.

The boys hanging out watching football.

Bump on the noggin'. He fell the other day, like he does a hundred times a day. This time he landed just perfectly so that his head hit the corner of the stereo cabinet. Poor boogerbutt.

Our temporary home for now

Austin and I are back in KC. Living with the parents for now. Doing lots of house hunting. Starting work in a few weeks.

Austin in his new home eating spaghetti, and being a goof.

Playing in the fountains down town Iowa City before we left.

LAAAAATER IOWA!!!

We are out like the Gout....



Well, the house is sold, so that means we have to move. We have two ginormous PODS in our driveway as you can see. Since we are homeless for the time being, we felt it was the best way to go since they will just put all of our stuff in storage. My dad came up this week to help. It has been so nice, since Austin doesn't make packing the easiest. Until my dad arrived. The majority of our packing had been done between the hours 8-midnight.

Grandpa and Austin sitting in the POD....too cute.

Tickle monster

I didn't have a baby pool, so I did the best I could, and used one of my shoe drawers. Some might call it trashy. I call it being resourceful.

Austin Hefner getting ready to hit the tub.

Finally got Austin on video saying tickle tickle. Kind of blurry. Sorry.

Summer Traveling

Spent the fourth at Josh's dad's house in Sparta Wi. Austin always has fun with cousins Casey and Layney. They all had their flag shirts on.

We also took a trip with all the Stegings in June. We rented a person's property for the week outside of the Wisconsin Dells. A fun touristy town known for waterparks and scenery. The place we stayed at was really great. We had a couple of cabins, lots of trails, ponds, zipline, grills and fire pits all over the place. You could even take a canoe trip out and see a bald eagle nest complete with adults and babies. It was really cool. We took some pics of Austin for his belated first birthday and some family ones too. Using the property as our back drop.

Me on the zip line, I almost made it across with out getting wet. As I threw the line back it got tangled, you can tell Josh was happy about it.

Austin throwing rocks and laughing. This is his new fav thing to do. He is in constant search for rocks to throw.

Our big boy starting to eat with a spoon. He is messy, but is trying.

A little get away with the sisters

I started working on this post several weeks ago. Guess it has been a little crazy around here. More to come later

For the big 3-0 I decided to jump ship, and visit my sister Megan in Mobile, AL. Our other sister, Tara, joined us as well for the King Girls Mobile Extravaganza....Megan's name...Meg's friend let us borrow their condo for the weekend on the bay. Just a little 3 bedroom, 4 bath shack of a place. We went from sharing one bathroom growing up, to us all being able to shower at the same time. We didn't know what to do with ourselves. It was a great weekend. Ate lots of good seafood. Got a nice tan, and several nice cocktails. It was a fun way to spend my 30th!

View of the bay from our condo

Ahhhh....the beach....

A celebratory glass of wine at the wine loft!!!

Happy Birthday Booger Butt!

How come I don't feel a year older, but he looks huge!! 22 lbs 9 oz at the doctor, 21 1/2 in for ht, still 50% across the board except for his 80% head. I think that is why he is always falling over.

Austin had his first birthday party the other day. It was fun. We had some fam in town, and a few friends came over to help us celebrate. He really wasn't into his cake. He had like a few courtesy bites since we were all staring at him, but then he was over it. We'll see if he still feels that way next year.

Helping me bake cookies for the weekend. He hugs the oven and puts his mouth on it. I feel the same way about cookies every time I make them.

Birthday breakfast. I mean it might be the same breakfast he gets most days, but that day it had a candle. :)

Grandpa and Grandma King helping open presents.

So, this is what happens when you move to just one nap. Austin has been rejecting his afternoon nap, so we have been just shooting for one, and the kid fell asleep mid bite. Even after cleaning everything up, he was out. He told me later when he woke up, "Sorry for sleeping mom!"