Kyle, Hillary & Little Bean

So yes, I know. I have been a little M.I.A. in the blog world. I've just lost the blogging gusto. But I figured we did need an update from Halloween pictures. :) Plus Ben turned 2 in February and he deserves his cute little birthday noted on the blog even if it is a month late. Sorry Ben.

The "spread".

Ben's monkey cake.

Grrrr. I was going to post a bunch more random pics from the last acouple months, but I am having troubles uploading any more pictures. We have really slow internet so that might be the problem. I will try again tommorrow. xoxo.

Officer Sorensen was out on patrol Halloween night. He apprehended many offenders. The streets were safer 'cause he was out.... he he he. Ben portrayed a cop perfectly. He had the serious face, the swagger and he left the aviator glasses on the whole time! I expected him not to even want to wear them but he must have known how bad A he looked. :) Me and Kyle recycled our "burglar" costumes from last year (lazy, I know)... get it... cops and robbers!!

Anyway, Ben LOVED when I would gel his hair and draw on his moustache. I stood him in front of the mirror and he held perfectly still and would smile and giggle when I was done. He dressed up three times... playgroup, ward party, and Halloween night for a neighborhood/friend party. A day or two after Halloween he found a pen, went and climbed up on the step stool in the bathroom and drew his own 'stache on!! (pic later on) When I went to find him because he was so quiet and saw what he had done I was laughing so hard. What a goofy kid Ben is.

We are doing good out here in the Oklahoma territory. We had a cold spell for a few weeks but now it is REALLY nice. So nice in fact that my body is all confused as to what time of year it is. I can't believe it is really November. It is 75-80 degrees and sunny. We play at the park almost every day and we are in short sleeved T-shirts!! NOVEMBER people!! But we are enjoying it anyway. I do really miss Connecticut though. Right now the Fall beauty (well that was actually mid-Oct back there) but mostly just everything.... that part of the country holds a really special place in my heart. Sigh. Kyle is on an easier rotation right now where he doesn't have to take "call" so that is nice... no nights alone for four months WAHOO!

Ben is so funny. He has the quirkiest personality, guess we know where he gets that. :) He still calls me "Mimi" which I love. The tantrums have definitely started. A couple weeks ago I got slapped in the face for the first time. That was fun. He has never hit or pushed anyone at home or at nursery or anything... I guess I got to be the lucky one. It HURT too... physically and emotionally. Teaching a little human how to manage their anger and frustration is not a walk in the park. But he is so sweet and funny it makes up for all that.

I have added on a ka-jillon pics over the last 4-6 weeks. I guess since I only post ever-so-often I should get it all in in one post. :) ~ Scroll on....

Ben loves to "help" with the dishes. He just uses the suds to wash himself. Here he is scrubbing his belly. scrub, scrub, scrub.

This is us at Arbuckle Wilderness on my birthday. It is about an hour south of us. It is the COOLEST place ever! Think Jurassic Park but with real animals instead of dinosaurs. You drive your car through the animal park and feed the animals. They come RUNNING up to your car and try to stick their heads in!! It was so hilarious, I was laughing so hard I cried. I have never seen anything like this before. It took us about an hour to drive through. You go through all different areas with different animals. There were SO MANY kinds of animals... some of the ones we saw were: llamas, alpacas, camels, emus, ostriches, Rhinos, giraffes, bison, miniature donkeys, zebras, lots of African types of animals... the list goes on. The funniest animals were the camels. We had like 15 or more crowded around our car, we couldn't even drive. They followed us forever too. It was so fun! Everyone needs to come visit us just so we can take you here... it will not disappoint!! :) Our camera ran out of batteries right at the beginning so we didn't get that many pictures. Hopefully you get the idea though.




On my birthday we also went to Turner Falls. It is a pretty little nature area near the animal park. It was so nice to be out and enjoy the outdoors. You can swim and camp there in the summer. This is Ben on the playground at the falls. He loved this see-saw swing thing.

Turner Falls.

Father and son... aawhhhhhh. :)

My mom came to visit at the beginning of October. It was SOOO nice to have some family come see us. This is me and my mom at the Oklahoma bombing memorial one of the days she was here. It is a really nice memorial/monument. Very somber though.


Here is Ben on his first fair ride!! It was so freaking cute!! I didn't know how he would react when I strapped him in and then walked away and left him all alone. But he didn't bat an eye. This little dune-buggy ride lasted a few minutes and he was jolly the whole time. Kyle and I were dying of laughter. We also ate lots of good food at the fair... mmmmm I want to go back.


Kyle loves to show Ben bugs... GROSS! We have a huge field behind our fence in the backyard so we have lots of grasshoppers. Kyle catches them and lets Ben play with them... I just get the willies thinking about it. Ben loves it though... he loves to observe and inspect things like this.

That's all folks!! Hope you are well!! MISS YOU!

Ben LOVES to swing. This is him swinging at a park in the OKC zoo. We also rode the train which he really loved too.