6 1/2 weeks!

Since we are traveling back east for Thanksgiving via airplane, the pediatrician recommended that Colton get his 1st round of immunizations before we leave. Typically they are given at the 8 week well check-up but can be given as early as 6 weeks so he went today. He did so great! He did scream but it was short lived and soon forgotten once Chad picked up. In all honesty, I was probably more traumatized! Today he weighed 10lbs 10oz! He is growing so fast, it is just hard to believe!

Here are some pics I've taken this month:

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We will be back east for 10 days. I'm definitely a little stressed about packing for 10 days for myself and a 7 week old, but I keep reminding myself that if I forget it we can buy it! And I'm just praying that Colton is a good little airplane passenger. He flew a bunch in utero so hopefully it will be familiar to him. :-) Please say a little pray for us (or the passengers around us!) If you are back east, we hope to see you while we are in! I will blog about our adventure when we return.

Happy Thanksgiving! We sure do have a lot to be thankful for this year!

October Snow Storm, Halloween and More...

Keeping up with this blog is proving to be more challenging than I expected! I'm hoping as Colton and I get a better routine it will be easier but until then please bear with me.

Last week we got the biggest October snow storm in Denver in 10 years! It snowed for 2 days totalling almost 2 feet of snow! For all you southeasterns, we aren't still snowed in and life still went on pretty much as planned. Of course, Colton and I were snowed in but Chad still went to work and grocery stores still had milk and bread. This pic was taken some time on day 2 of the storm but doesn't show the final accumulation.

The snow didn't stop Halloween, in fact, we had more little trick-or-treaters this year than ever before. Of course, by Saturday it was mid-50s and most of the snow had melted but it was a bit of a slushy mess. Our neighborhood is a "destination neighborhood" for trick-or-treating and I always estimate we have at least 500 lil' goblins. This year I decided to buy bigger treats and only give one to each kid so I would know exactly how many we had. Well, I underestimated Halloween on a Saturday night. I had 537 treats and was out by 7:30pm and there were still lots of kids left trick-or-treating! I probably need 750 pieces to make it to our neighborhood "lights out" time of 8:30p!

Chad and Colton dressed up as "Cousin Eddie" from the movie Christmas Vacation and the scene where Cousin Eddie is in his bathrobe dumping his RV holding tank on Clark's front yard.

Here are a few more pics that I wanted to share...(I will try to post a bunch more to FB ASAP).