Leavenworth

This past weekend we made out annual trip to Leavenworth for the Lighting Festival. There was no snow on the ground when we got there but boy was it cold! As always, we had a blast. It is so fun to now have a little on to take over there and just see the joy on his face. The lighting was beautiful as always and Elliott loved all the lights. About 10 minutes after the lighting, it started to snow. We headed back to our room to warm up a little and then decided to head back out to let Elliott play in the snow. He had so much fun, all he wanted to do was build a tow man as he calls them so we did and actually pulled it back to our room in his sled so he could have it for the next day. Sunday when we woke up it had snowed more and we were able to stick around town for awhile and play. the wind had picked up so it was even colder but still worth it to see the joy on a 2 1/2 year old face just having the time of his life. Here are a few pictures to recap our weekend.

He turned to Wes and I and said look at music note at the top of the building.



The tow man that was brought back to the room buy Elliott pulling him in his sled.

This is what we woke up to on Sunday morning.

All he really wanted to do was shovel snow!



This is always our favorite stop before heading out of town. The Breger man House (Gingerbread House)

A visit with Santa

The weekend after Thanksgiving we took Elliott to visit Santa. He was very excited and there was no wait. We kept asking him what he wanted to ask Santa for and he told us Trains, train Tracks and a Ball. The ball has to be Orange apparently and baby wants a lello (yellow) one. So he got up there and did the picture thing and then Santa asked him what he wanted and he looked at me and said "Mommy tell" That is what we do now when we do not want to talk to someone or answer someone. He loves Santa and can not wait until Christmas. Here are a few pictures.

Halloween

I know it is a little late but here are some pictures of Halloween. Elliott was a little monkey which is very appropriate lately for him. At one point he looked at me and said, "no mama you wait here." He went up all by himself with us close behind. Have I ever mentioned that he is our little mister independent?

This picture above is from when we went to visit Daddy at work on friday before Halloween.

Pumpkin Carving

As per last year, our son hates the inside of Pumpkins! We tried again and he wanted no part of it. He liked to watch but when it came to touching, he thought it was yucky! He must be like his Kuncle in that aspect. He did like helping daddy as long as he had a spoon. He loved the end result and helping daddy decide on the shapes for the eyes, nose and how many teeth the "punkin" should have.

Pumpkin Patch #3

So the third and final time we went to the pumpkin patch was with my family. We have done this for years. I love to go when it is cold and muddy. Just call me weird! Elliott absolutely loved the pumpkins and picking out his "punkin" as he calls them. He had the most fun in the saw dust mound that they had and I am pretty sure there were big tears when we told him that we had to leave. He is 2 1/2 remember! Her are pictures from that trip







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Pumpkin patch 2

So for some reason this year we went to the pumpkin patch 3 times. The second time I went with my mother i law and out nephew. It had to be my favorite trip because it was really muddy and Elliott had his boots on and loved walking through the mud. Here are a few pictures of that trip.

Pumpkin Patch

So we decided last Saturday to head out to the Pumpkin Patch. It was a great fall day. We stopped at Starbucks and got hot apple ciders for all of us and then headed down to Spooner's in Sumner. We have never been there before and it was a lot of fun. Elliott had a blast running through all the pumpkins and picking out 3 small pumpkins for the front of our house. As soon as he had the 3 picked out he was all done. He is getting such the little boy independence and is so much fun. We are laughing all the time at the things that he says to us and what he comes up with. Here are a few pictures to show you how much fun he had.


We are not sure why but he loved the white pumpkins. We did finally convince him to get an orange one but he loved the white.






On our way out Elliott found this tractor and wanted to ride it but Mommy said no so we had to stand at stare at it for about 5 minutes. He has the love for John Deere tractors and we are not sure where it came from but it is so fun.

Hellping Daddy!

Elliott has been very into helping us cook lately. On labor day Daddy and Elliott decided to make Apple Crisp one of the Neeley's favorite desserts. He had so much fun. Here are a few pictures.