October

It seams like October has come and gone just like that!  My goal is to try harder at taking more pictures when we go out and about, so this post wont be that interesting for some, its more for my records. October and November is major hunting season for our family.  Moving to Alberta has made it so easy since Matt's parents have a ton of hunting land where they live.  (which just happens to be 10 minutes away from where we live).  I've decided to give hunting a chance, mostly to be able to spend more time with my hubby.  What's that moto? if you cant beat him, join him...anyways i've gone 3 times.  Its nice to be  one with nature, you have to be sooo quiet and not move much, which is a nice change from my daily running after and yelling at Parks:)  Its not 'rut' time yet, so the deer and elk aren't really moving around a whole lot.  It can get pretty boring.  We  did have 39 HUGE elk about 100 some yards away from us one time, that was absolutely incredible.  They are beautiful animals.  Matt has since shot a moose and doe with his bow.  His dad has gotten an elk, so we are deffinately set for meat for the year.  Extra goes to people in need that we know, so none will go to waste.  Besides that, living here in Okotoks has been fine.  Matt has been home on most of his off days for the past month instead of working construction because we are pretty sure he has a slipped disc in his back or something, he is in a lot of pain with that.  He gets an MRI next week to see if he needs surgury or not.  Parks is almost 22 months old in a few more days.  He is so smart.  We started the whole potty training thing when he was 19 months old, and now he is a pro.  He now wants to do it myself and not tell us!  Its pretty funny cuz he ends up peeing everywhere, but usually he'll run up to us and sign and say 'potty, potty, potty'.  If he has to go at night, he'll yell for one of us and than go back to sleep afterwards.  Its awesome.  He talks so clear now too.  He's become such a little person.  In 2 more days Parks and I are flying to Ottawa for 2 weeks!  We are both so excited.  Matt will be staying home with Ammo and be very busy at his new hall, that just changed as of today.  He has been at a very quiet station for the past 3 months in the North end of Calgary and is now going to #1 station in Downtown Calgary that apparently is the second most busy station in Calgary.  He is so happy about that.  Plus his brother Paul is coming down from Utah (also a firefighter) to hunt on days off.  It works out perfectly.

Halloween turned out to be a great night for Parks, he actually allowed us to put on his Thomas costume that he has been terrified of for the past month.  Matt's parents came over to help give out candy.  Matt and I took Parks to about 6 houses, and he did so well with saying 'trick or treat' although sometimes he'd just say 'candy please'.  Everyone thought he was so cute:o)  Than there are some idiots who like to wear terrifying masks and/or jump out of boxes with scary masks on even though they can clearly see how young Parks is...that's why we had to end early as too many things started scaring him.  All and all it was a great 1st Halloween for him.  ( Our camera was broken, so the halloween costume pic was taken on a later day).