Halloween

This first picture is on Saturday the 24th just before going to my works Halloween party. Its a gym, they had tons of things for the kiddos to do. Bounce houses, games for prizes, train ride outside, petting zoo, pony rides, haunted house and more fun for kids. They had a blast we even skipped Keegans soccer game because they were having so much fun.


The last two pics are atou our house just as headding out for trick-or-treating. It got dark right after these shots and none of our pictures turned out. Thats what we get for trying to use our phones verse a real camera. We have now hopefully learned our lesson and will have more pictures of fun evens in the future especially if they occur in the dark.



They were the cutest little pirates I have ever seen. They had painted on beards and mustaches too. We had a lot of fun trick-or-treating this year. We had a ward trunk or treat first then hit up our neighborhood, which could have been better next year we might try a different neighborhood. There were only 4 or 5 houses per street max, but the boys had great spirits about it. We took the small stroller thinking Konnor might get tired, oh no way not that kiddo. He wanted to walk the entire time to get candy, he growled at us when we asked if he wanted to sit or have us carry his bag. He is apparently a ton like me and all you have to do is say free candy and he is off but don't touch it he will scream at you. Almost everyday since Keegan has come to me saying "I want costume to go trick-or-treating mom" I say "sorry buddy only one day we have to wait till next year" he says "aw man".

Baby Boy Profile

Brown Boy #3

This is kinda a cool picture just ignore the glare, I took a picture of the picture. If you look real close at the face you can see a little nose shadow and mouth with cute lips. The ultrasound lady said he has a very cute profile. Sorry I didnt put anything sooner about our little bundle. Every time someone asks me what I'm having and I tell them another boy they are kinda taken back and not sure how to say it, either awesome or sorry no girl this time are you going to try again. Well we are excited for another boy to come into our house. Keegan and Konnor have become amazing little buddies and this next little guy will join right in on the boy fun that we have here. We aren't the ordinary home I think or maybe we are, yes we have a basketball hoop in our living room, we play sword fight on the couches, and on occasion we do set up the baseball pitching machine right in the living room too. So apparently we are perfect for little boys.
Our little guy is due the end of February on the 28th, not sure if I'll make it that long, Keegan was 10 days early and Konnor was a month early. We are just hoping he can hold out long enough to be healthy and not need the NICU like Konnor did.

Tonights Prayer by Keegan

Keegan has been saying his own prayers lately and alot of thing get repeat every night but tonight had a lot of new things in it.

Here is how it went....

Dear Heavenly Father thank you for today, bless mommy at gym(i was home tonight unlike m-th), bless gma and gpa, bless dani and colton, bless school bus; thanks for pirate ship, pirate costume, trick or treating, and harry potter and bless sleep good and name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Today we went and picked up Keegan's Halloween costume (obviously a pirate costume), no he didn't get and doesn't have a pirate ship, but there is one at the gym now. He has watched Sinbad the pirate movie the last two days, and Pirates of Caribbean last night. Every time he sees a skull he says pirate ship, too cute huh. Still looking for the right pirate costume for Konnor. He said at the store that he needed the Harry Potter wand but he told him he had one at home (which he does) we got that out and he was the pirate with the magic wand tonight. We have been reading Harry Potter to the boys before bed.

Zane went out of town sooo....

Zane went out of town for the very first time the end of August, most of his family met up in Idaho Falls for his brothers new little baby's blessing. Here is what we did.

Friday morning he left really early so when we all got up I decided lets have a yummy breakfast at McDonalds, I for some reason crave it but am usually not out the door in time for it, sad I know.


They gobbled up their food and were attacking mine, I'm guessing a huge hit but really who can go wrong with pancakes and sausage.
The boys soon ran off to play, I caught this in action. Konnor is really slow down slides its funny, Keegan usually turns around and helps him down so it doesn't take so long.

Say cheese for daddy
Konnor is up top in the tunnel
Keegan playing video games, Konnor was on the one in the back so you cant see him.

Then the rest of Friday went as normal with a tiny difference. Fridays I go to work and take Konnor with me for 1pm while Keegan is in school, well Zane normaly gets of work early and work from home to be here with Keegan when his bus drops him off. Well I ran home from work and picked him up and ran back to work, wow can I say crazy I barely made it home in time.
Saturday morning Keegan had game number2. Gma and Gpa O'Brien came out to watch and to help me out, Konnor is a bit of a pill he doesnt understand he cant go on the field. Still a good game but not as funny. Keegan is a shadow chaser or as most would call a butterfly watcher. Then off to lunch with gma and gpa. Back to the house to hang out for a bit then off the their house.
We spent the night at their house and went to church with them the next morning. It was their primary program so I wanted Keegan to see what he was practicing for. We hung out with them all day and came home late at night.
Zane came home around 1am and went into work late which was great we missed him a lot.

Keegans First soccer game

Well if anyone knows about our texas weather this fall it has made soccer season a big wash. They have had a total of one practice and three games instead of five. These are pictures of his first game. A serious crack up, we were all busting up laughing most of the time. 4 year olds playing soccer is funny most of the time. I'm apparently a bit of a sour sport about a few things but oh well, I guess that is cause I love soccer.

Lined of for kick off

Look close in the picture, they are all falling down. The other team had a kiddo who was a ball hog, now if he didn't have it he tried to take it from his own teammate who was doing great. Which cause the pile of kids multiple times.

Keegan strutting his stuff to come say hi. We said his name and he ran over to us to say hi back.

Keegans Classroom at school

This one is us at Keegan's meet the teacher night just before school started. His teachers are great and he is doing amazing this year. His room is really fun there are lots of things they get to do like computer time, and they even have a sand and water table up, huge slide, play kitchen, and tons of toys. If you dont know our little Keegan is in a special program for kids with delays, we all think his delays are because of his speech. He is doing amazing its all starting to click. The other day we were at a play area and they had a kitchen (now we dont pretend kitchen play at home) so i was a bit surprised when he came to me and said "mom have some tea i made, here" "oh and cookies". To cute.

Seriously who wouldn't want to come play in this room everyday.

Adventure of the morning!

Today when Keegan's bus arrived the driver asked if we wanted to go for a ride since she had about 10 extra minutes today. We said sure thing so on we go. Konnor and I were shoeless, I now know always wear shoes its not comfy they have grips for weather and they hurt bare feet, lesson learned. They have seats and harnesses for the kids since its for the under 5 kids and kids with special needs.

Two happy boys, Konnor was like awesome I get to go on the bus. Every day when Keegan's bus come Konnor yells "my bus my bus" poor kiddo, but today was his lucky day. And I'm sure Keegan was thinking "um OK I guess Konnor and Mom can come to school today" or he just didn't care.

We drove out of our neighborhood and off over to the park and around it through another neighborhood back home. It was actually fun for me too, I got to chat with his driver and the aid on the bus, they are really nice people. Here are the boys pointing at the soccer fields and saying "Soccer Park soccer play", its were Keegan now has soccer. While going through the neighborhoods we would come upon bumps in the road, Konnor would look at me and say "up n down up n down" I said back "right like wheels on the bus" he said "Yes mom." Then at every turn Konnor was sqeeling and leaning with the turn it was soooo cute, but sorry I didn't think about getting video until now.

Ignore the painful look on his face, no pain was involved in the bus ride. It was just bad timing. He had a blast.

Sprinklers

So way back at the end of June and beginning of July my awesome parents helped us put in our very own sprinkler system. Zane did the physical labor and my dad and mom had the know how. We now have a 4 cycle system and it works all by itself. You may say whats the big deal. I say huge, um like who really wants to drag hoses around your yard all day to hit every bit of grass when this amazing system can do it all in just 1 hr, this used to take me like um 4hrs, plus in Texas heat.

Here is my dads happy dance saying we are done we are done! Yippy!!

And of course our little Konnor, saying I love sprinklers I can run all over the yard and get hit with water! Yeah man whats better than that!

Oh I know whats better naked trampoline jumping with water.

And I could leave off this picture I know it doesn't fit with the theme but oh well. I hadnt been feeling good for um lets say july 1st through Aug 12ish. And on one Sunday after church we came home and I went to take a nap. Well Keegan came in and said "momma I nap with you" how could I not let him attempt it. He climbed in and gave me huge hugs as you can see. Luckily he got bored in a few minutes and I got my nap but it was a precious moment that reminds me why I want more kids.

Portland Fun July 09

Konnor's 2nd Birthday Party

Konnor will be 2 this Wednesday the 24th. On Saturday we celebrated Konnor's birthday with the whole O'Brien family. We had a lot of fun. Of course it started off with the traditional pizza meal, then off to swimming for at least 2hrs, then presents and cake.

Grams and Calli took other pics of the fun too. Thanks everyone for the great gifts he loves them.