lots of fun!!

so this past weekend we had a lot of fun! Nixon was a total trooper and agreed to do family pictures :) I won a free photo session with a photographer worth $150. so it was time to get our matching outfits and do some great fall pics. It was Saturday and the photo shoot went really quick, Meeka was really good. She made me a proud mama!! Afterwards we went and ate dinner at Sunsets in Wayzata. We haven't gone there in a LONG time so it was so yummy, I had my favorite Sherry chicken salad. OOOO YUMMM. So I couldn't have asked for a better day!. Sunday was such a gorgeous day we finally got the family together and went to the apple orchard. It is quite the drive for us to go out to Delano, we go to Fall Harvest, it is a local farm. It is much better than the other Orchards that we've been to. Last year we went to Aamodt's and were seriously dissapointed and did not like it one bit. It was too commercialized and not a lot for the kids to do and see. At Fall Harvest it is a local farm (which I love the idea of) it's smaller and more family oriented :) There were baby chicks that Meeka picked up, some cows that I took a picture of. Meeka got to feed the goats and see a bunch of baby animals. Sheep, goats, chicks, cows, piglets. It's just a better experience all around!. She picked out a pumpkin, then wouldn't let us buy it because she wanted it to stay with all the other pumpkins, so I'll be buying her pumpkin at the store. She got a hoot out of the face cut outs that you put your head through and it's different scenes. So all in all it was a really fun day.

NIxon and I have been debating what to do in the basement for a awhile now, we have some free space and would like to kinda move Meeka's play area into the unfinished part of the basement, move the t.v. stuff on the otherside of the basement and make a mid-shaft bedroom down there for him (or anyone else). We've moved everything around upstairs to make the old dining room into Niko's room which looks really good I must say, moved the table into the living area. I love this because now we all sit down as a family and eat dinner. The table has gotten more use in the last week I think than in the 4 years that we've lived here :) Niko and Meeka were just having a hard time sharing a room. Meeka still has a hard time going to sleep on time and staying in her bed, she gets up and plays and drinks her water, and wakes up Niko, and when Niko wakes up in the middle of the night he would wake her up too sometimes. This just over-all was hard on me, so a few weeks ago we moved him into his own little room :) I love the set up and couldn't be more happy.

Last night I actually looked up in our attic. We've been thinking about putting another layer of insulation down before it gets too cold out. The attic could definitly use one, there's hardly any up there. Then it got me thinking, why not actually "USE" our attic, isn't that what people do to store their stuff??? So I'm gonna have to talk more to NIxon about that, but why not put some stuff down for a floor (nothing major) and store our boxes of clothes, christmas stuff, all the stuff that we keep downstairs up in the attic?? This would seriously clean up all our tubs of stuff downstairs. Oh I think I would jump for joy!!! We only dig through that stuff once a year anyway, so I wouldn't be missing it down there. I think it would be great for everyone all around. It's just pretty hard getting up there. The door to the attic is actually in Niko's closet so not too convenient. I'll have to figure something out there. Anyway I have to go put NIko down for his nap. Once I get around to figuring out how to put pictures on here with the new camera I'll post some from the apple orchard and from Sever's from the week before. I got some really great ones. We are absoluetly loving our new camera!!