This Fall

 Here is a little catch up from this fall...

Cyrus riding horsey at Grandma Steffen's. He didn't want to let any of his cousins ride it.

This past Saturday we rack A LOT of  leaves and Cyrus enjoyed helping...

Cyrus turned 1 year old!!!!!!!!!!!!! on Nov 2, 2013! We spent the weekend at mom and dad Hoerr's house making applesauce and Cyrus getting a lot of Cat gifts.  It was great!

Here's a great picture from a while back of Cyrus at our local orchard riding one of those old tractors.  Isn't it so cute?

Sorry for the quality... but I made a shirt for Cyrus that has only child penciled out and it says BIG brother.  Yeah...we are expecting child #2 on May 8, 2014.  They will be about 18 months apart. 

That same weekend we announced our pregnancy Daniel and Wendi, Nathan and Michelle and Kendra and Aaron Came up for the weekend.  Seth also came along too and Saturday night Larissa came over from camping with her family near our house.  And also Darcy, Charity, and Kayla came over on Saturday night.  We had such an enjoyable time.  Thanks so much for coming everyone and blessing us so much with your friendship!

Here's a picture when we were church camping in September.

Have a wonderful Day! And Happy Thanksgiving assuming I won't be posting before that.

Cyrus' Birthday party

So Shayla and I decided a joint birthday party would make it easier and more enjoyable. So Adler and Cyrus had there 1st birthday together at our house this the Steffen Fam.  Adler's b-day is the 16th of Sept and Cyrus is Nov 2nd.  So we did it somewhere in between.  They both did great and had a lot of fun and really happy with their new toys.  Also a side note 2 hours before supper our drains backed up and Troy tried to fix but we ended up calling someone and thankfully we where able to get it fix for a tidy sum of money.  All was well again by 6 that night; we where able to go the bathroom, shower do dishes, and even wash our hands. It was interesting trying to get ready for the party without being able to do any of that. Thankfully Shayla come early and help be host for me.  So here's some pictures... (btw I think this is the soonest I've ever got pictures up before)

Our fam pic for mom Steffen

Charity though this would be a great place to lay down right in the middle of our small hallway!

trying to take a Christmas picture for Mom Steffen 

opening gifts which Cy did good with.  He love all his toys!

one of Cy toys Elaiah wanted to play with

Adler is officially walking! Good job bud!

took a while to figure how to dig in but they both got it

bath after stuffing himself with cake

A few recent happenings

This is a cutting board Troy made me. Love it!

My family except Seth came up last Saturday and Sunday we went to Wild West town which beck and dela LOVED.  when we first walked in there was a carousel and dela starts getting super excited and saying please can I ride on it!  Beck had a similar reaction to the train which we are riding in the pic below.  They stayed at a hotel near us because we sadly could keep the, all but we had 4 meal on that new big table Troy built it was great.

Cyrus in one our laundry baskets...Troy put him in there he didn't do it himself.

He looks sad there but he actually really enjoyed it.

Peeking through the bars.

Troy stand Cyrus in his crib and then he does various silly things to make him laugh like crazy and get really excited.

Messy from supper!

Cyrus' lap full of spaghetti

Our three season room

Welcome back Ellie! ... to the world of blog posting.  Well as my friends know I'm not a picture taker

And I'm the worst email/texter so you can almost be guaranteed that I'm also a horrible blog poster.  Anyway here's some pictures Troy took of the back three season room he finished and the table benches and rustic wall flower vases (not sure how to explain but you'll see).