October fun

Fall and October is among my FAVORITE time of the year. We had a VERY special birthday celebration and we had so much fun between pumpkin carving, hayrides, corn mazes and of course trick or treating.

Tanner's 7th birthday was super blast! I FINALLY convinced him to have a dress up/ Halloween theme party. And I think it was a hit! We had lots of creepy games...like the bloody brains game and the mummy game. Everyone was in costume and seemed to really enjoy themselves. I hope he will consider this theme again another year as well. I will post pics of that stuff soon. Here is some of the fun we had in October:

Tried to get a picture with Baby Hank

The shark and the fireman before they hit the streets..

the ladies I work with dresses as Witches

Tanner carved his first pumpkin ALL by himself. It was amazing!

Entering the corn maze

waiting on the hayride

hayride!

Silly Dad above the corn maze!

At the Sauerkraut Festival

Okay that is all for now!

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Much love,

Tammi and the boys!

Wedding fun

Daddy and Evan

Mom and Tanner

Beautiful bride with her Dad

Coming from the Limo

Waiting

Well my boss from when I started at the Credit Union got married and we were so excited to be able to share in her special day. She looked GORGEOUS and the boys had a blast. They loved the dancing and were so curious about the ceremony. It occurred to Tim and I that the boys have not been to any weddings that they would remember so they just had a great time all around. Weddings are fun!!

I have so much more to catch up on .. more to come. We had kind of a crazy week last week but we are pushing through....

More soon!

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Much love!

Tammi and the boys.

Newest member of the family....

Getting to know her new brother...

We went to the pound and look what we found.

I need to get some better pics for the blog. We named her Lola and she is an adorable but NEEDY English pointer. We suspect is a full breed by her look and the fact that she points. She is so sweet and we think she is between 1-2 years old. This is what we get for going to the pound. We all feel in love quickly with Lola.. and Tanner asked for her for his birthday.

More pics of her to follow.

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Much love,

Tammi and the boys!

Hockey time!

Well Evan is finally able to hit the ice as a hockey player!! He was over the moon excited!! Tanner is starting his 3rd season and he amazes me how good he is doing. I am just a proud mama :)

After practice.. sweaty.. that is what the coach wants to see..

Right after practice

Ready to hit the ice in one of Tanner's old jerseys

getting geared up!

Evan on the ice with the coach

Tanner on the ice

Evan cheering on

Tanner chillin'

Well I really will try to post more... or at least TRY to!

:)

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Tammi and the boys!

Back to reality....

Well school is in full swing and we are back to the reality of daily life... without the wonderful distractions of summer. However, I love fall. I love getting back to the schedule. We are sooo excited about football starting! I love Football and watching football and especially when we get to watch our favorite teams AND be surrounded by friends. Good times! We are excited about that for sure!
The other exciting thing getting into full swing is hockey! It is hard to believe that our little guy will be taking the ice this year in full gear as a member of the team.. and we can't wait to see this. He has only been talking about this for 2 years now! The much anticipated adventure will be captured in many pictures.. and they will be to come I promise. Tanner on the other hard is moving up the ranks and graduated to a more structured team.. he is excited about. There will be more games and I believe we will doing some traveling for games as well. We are all looking forward to it. Hockey is a long season but we always miss it on our break from it. When it gets started we are so excited... and when it winds down come spring we are surely over it and ready for the break! Here is to the cycle beginning!

Thanks for stopping by! I sure know that I have been behind on posting and I need to get caught up on that.. I would love to stay it will get better but the busier it gets I do not want to make promises I can't keep.

Thanks for bearing with me!

Much love to all!

Tammi and the boys!

Cooking club fun!

I joined the cooking club on base and so far it is awesome! Of course the first night was dessert night.. how can you not love that??? I made these mini cherry cheesecakes courtesy of Ms. Paula Dean. I am really excited that Julie will be posting all of the recipes for the clubs with pictures and such on the blog. So, a NEW blog.. and with food... good stuff. I thought that warranted a post for sure!!

Here is the new blog! Check if out for food ideas as we go.

This is a big weekend... but I forgot the camera... so I guess I will just need to take it all in, enjoy it and capture in my head! :)

Thanks for stopping in.. since I never update!

Love to all!

Tammi and the boys!

A new friend and blogger....

I am soooo excited to have a new friend and to add her new blog to my list of favs! I got to meet Mary recently and if was so great to get to meet her, though our time with her was way too brief. I hope that we get to visit more in the future! I did snap this picture of Mary and Bryan at the buffet right before she left.

Mary and Bryan (aren't they cute)

They also recently announced thier engagement! We are so excited for them!

When we explained to the boys that Mr. Bryan was getting married. Evan thought that married and buried were the same and he thought Bryan was going to cover her with sand?? Ah my children they sure come up with some silly stuff!

Mary's blog is all about wedding planning and I am so excited to track thier progress.

Since I know Mary sometimes checks my blog.. I wonder if she will appreciate the colors I did this post in.. ;)

Thanks for popping in on us..

More posts to come!

Much love,

Tammi and the boys

Festival stuff...

Well we went to some festivals this summer.. though we have not done as many. We did do the Mountain Festival... and the Goetta (pronounced Geta) festival in Cincinnatti... here are some pics of the fun..

Hank enjoying the bluegrass music

Posing with the teepee

more posing..

He is sooo cute! :) And he was so patient..it was HOT

mining for rocks

My favorite thing about the last picture is that my husband knows me so well... he grabbed the kids and posed in front of the giant inflatable goeta... I mean how can you pass up a picture with a Giant Inflatable Goetta???

By the way...if you must learn about Goetta check it out.

Thanks for stopping by!

Much love!

Tammi and the boys!

BIG Drama!

Well, lots of drama today in this family.

First of all, Evan has the chicken pox. He was vaccinatted so it seems to be a fairly mild case but still 7-10 days of no school. Day 1 and he is soooo bored!

Secondly, turns out day two of 1st grade has yielded a "girlfriend" there is even talk of marriage...talk about a whirlwind romance! Turns out Tanner STOLE Ashlyn from Noah.. ( because she thinks he is cuter then Noah--per Tanner) And Noah was NOT happy about it! There was some playground roughin' up...but all in all Noah indicated that he wants to be friends..... Oh the fun of school!

The story cracked me up... I wish you could have heard him tell it. It was told as Bad News and Good news... Bad news was about Noah and the play ground... and Good News.... "I got a girlfriend!!!!"

I know it is a bummer without pictures...but I will post some soon.

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Much Love,

Tammi and the boys

Our first grader!

our big boy..getting on the bus

Mom and the boys

Dad and the boys

Daddy's home cooked bacon and egss

Yummy Daddy's breakfast

Well there it is... first day of school! So very hard to believe! It was a quick summer.. our boy is growing so very fast!

Thanks for stopping in!

More soon!

Much love,

Tammi and the boys

First day of school preparations...

Well, tomorrow is the 1st day of school for one VERY excited 1st grader. We kind of inadvertentaly created this tradition last year.. and looks like it will stick...first day of school cake! I mean who doesn't like cake...right?

As part of all the preparations the boys and I made the cake...

Tim already warned me that for tomorrow.. I "might" not want to put any makeup on.... I already cried a wee bit when we sent Tanner up for a blessing during mass today.... ah Motherhood...

mixing batter

The 3 of us

trying to take a pic of me and Evan

Tanner breaking an egg

Preparing for the cake baking

More pictures to follow... I am sure...

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Much Love,

Tammi and the boys.

So PROUD!

This is me and my little man just a few weeks ago. Notice he has his patch on. He has worn this patch 12 hours per day 7 days per week with hardly any breaks! And it is WORKING!! I know it has been VERY hard work for him but we are so proud of him. When we went to the new Dr. just a few months ago, Tanner was seeing at 250 ( legally blind) in his left eye. Last time we went to the Dr he had improved his vision by 50% and now yesterday another 30%. He now can see at 40 with his glasses. Though he has made AMAZING progress this is still more than likely a long process. The Dr. yesterday said he will probably patch on an off until 8 or 9 years old. As of right now, we will continue the 12 hour patching until school starts and then he will be able to do only afterschool and all day on weekends! I am so excited and so is he! No patches at school makes him really happy! The Dr. does reserve the right to change his mind when we go back in Oct... but we are hoping that this will not be necessary.

Thanks to all for keeping Tanner in your prayers. This is a trial for him.. and like I said it is hard work! But obviously it is SOOOOOOOOOOOO worth it!!

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Much love,

Tammi and the boys!

Camping weekend!

We checked out a new place about 2 hours south of us called Longs Retreat pretty neat place! I did not take as many pictures as I thought. There was SOOO much to do. We did a ton, the go carts, the water slides, went canoeing etc. I did try to take a few pictures of all the fun! Basically I took and extra day off work and we made a long weekend of it.. enjoy the pics!

Evan at the lake.. it was hard to get him out of the water

I took this picture of Tim to show the splash pad..

This is for the big green slide in the lake..Tanner LOVED it!

This one is to show the dock and the diving boards..

Then there was a whole shallow area to build in the sand and such Tanner is a speck in this pic

You can also see the boat house where we did our canoe rental

See..the big long water slides.. I was suprised both boys rode these over and over

no fear at all in these kids..

Tim helping Evan with the water wars

Tanner ready to fire a shot

Playing in the sand

hangin out at camp

more camp

Tanner met lots of friends and played lots of ball

Across from our site

roasting marshmallows with a friend he made ( Sheldon)

Picture of all the fun stuff from our site, carousel, go carts, jump house...

Tanner and Sheldon... again!

Evan chillin by the lake

really sorry you have to see this twice.. too late and I am too lazy to remove it.. :)

So the first night it rained.. and look what we found.. WORMS!!

Evans worms!

Quick mom get the Camera.. take a picture of our worms!!

Well like I said it was a great time! There was absolutely no cell signal.. so it was uninterrupted family time. The boys said it was thier favorite camping trip ever! I am not sure if we will get to go back or not. We are looking into at least one more trip before the season is done. Special thanks to my hubby for doing all the hard work and making such WONDERFUL meals! He really does take the "roughing it" out of roughing it!

Thanks for stopping by!

I am trying to get better about posting.. :)

Much love to all!

Tammi and the boys