The Hunt

The deer hunt has come and gone for the Stevens'. This year only 1 had a tag, J.D.'s brother Chet. I seriously think he got the first deer of the season! He left Saturday morning down to the fields, and came back around 10 with a BIG buck. It was a 3 pt. but had an enormous body! i will say that if we still had to hunt for our food i don't think any of the Stevens' would go hungry. :) Good job Uncle Chet!
We went up Eagle Canyon to camp again. It was such a blast! We definitely camped in style! Uncle Chet and Aunt Bobi Sue brought their 4-wheelers, we had chicken cordon bleau with some yummy rice mixture, and country fried steak the next night, (all cooked in dutch ovens so the taste was phenomenal!We had plenty of snacks and junk food!

While up there, our niece Taylee kept saying, "vroom vroom!" and would climb up onto the 4-wheeler. It was so cute! I told her to smile for the picture and she did with her eyes closed! :)

Here is Uncle Chet, Jetta, Taylee, Grandma Stevens and Tilden ready to go on another "vroom vroom"

This is Aunt Loni... I think the picture explains it all...

Me and J.D.

And Dawson and I. He loved the camp. He especially loved to rub dirt all over. He was filthy! He can walk, but isn't too stable on uneven ground...so we had lots of falls and tumbles and dirt. He loved the 4-wheelers too. He would go stand by them and try to climb up. Who doesn't like 4-wheelers???

All in all we had a very good time! Sunday evening Great Grandma Stevens came up to see our campsite. I have more pics, but on grandma stevens' camera. :)

Ohhh Dawson...

As mentioned earlier, we have a nut on our hands! He does the funniest things on his own!

Here is our lovely nut! He found this frisbee and keeps putting it on his head as seen below. Don't ask why he puts it that way, but it's super funny! He never puts it all the way over his head..just this way. Here is a pic of our haunted gingerbread houses! Mine is the tall one, and yes it is SUPPOSED to be crooked. Dawson really helped out a lot with his. He liked to eat the frosting off of it.

He loves silky feel. He has a blanket that was J.D.'s when he was a baby. J.D. absolutely love this thing, and drug it around everywhere. You can tell it's old...and it's pink too...Anyways, J.D.'s mom gave the blanket to us to use, since it was J.D.'s. Dawson LOVES it! Another thing he found that is silky feeling is mom's bra....lol! He just rubs it on his face cuz he loves the feel. HAHA! It's absolutely hilarious. He is into putting on clothes too..so he wants to wear it around as well. He doesn't quite fit into it the right way, but he fits into other ways...and of course he is screaming at me because I tried to take it away...

Every morning, Dawson and I usually have a bowl of cereal together. He's getting quite good at using a spoon by the way. After I get done with eating all the cereal, like a normal person would do..they drink the milk out from the bowl. Dawson sees me do this. So he tries it...

And here's the outcome... lol!

I LOVE Halloween!

I absolutely love Halloween! I love this time of year too! It's cool enough in the mornings to go for a nice walk with Dawson. The leaves are changing colors! So far for Halloween we have made Haunted Gingerbread houses...I didn't get pics sorry! AND last night we carved pumpkins with our friends. They turned out so amazing! We had a blast too!

This is what they looked like in the dark! We are going to wait to set them out on Halloween night so no one smashes our artistic creations... so make sure you come trick or treat at our house

Also along with the season comes hunting, smores, camp fires, bon fires, *Hot chocolate**, scary movies, TONS of candy, and my bday. I can't complain at all this month. It's truly the best month. Even the name is cool....'october...' :) lol! Have a Happy Halloween and a Happy October!

The past couple of weeks...

To start, we celebrated Dawson's birthday one saturday. So many people came! Thank you to everyone who came and all of the fun presents! It was so much fun! I of course decorated his cake...you might could tell. :) It was my first one, and so I figure the worst can be when he won't remember right? Let's hope it gets better. Grandma and Grandpa Stevens gave Dawson a Cars car to scoot around on and walk with. He went nuts over it! He didn't want to get off at all! It was so cute!
Carson was such a good cousin to push Dawson around!

And here's the cake... it's a boot with a cowboy hat on top if you can't tell

Next.. i go on a walk with Dawson every morning.. we came home one day and he crawled into the bottom space compartment! It was hilarious!

The monday after Dawson's birthday party, he decided he was going to walk! He just walks everywhere now! And my house somehow stays messy :) I love seeing him walk. He is so happy and you can see he feels like he can conquer the world now.

J.D. left on the Shelley Traditional Elk hunt this last weekend. He didn't get anything but had a blast! All of the shelley boys go, they eat like men, camp like men, joke like men and smell like men....lol! He came home so relaxed and happy.

In sunday before conference I wrote down in the role book that I needed a job...a girl behind me saw this and when she got the role book she wrote down my name and number. She called me telling me about a job where she works. Pick your own hours, all weekends and holidays off, and no customers. It's calle Itzy Bitzy and its designer shoe company. I pull orders and fill them, and stock shelves. I go at my own pace and J.D. watches Dawson while I go. It's perfect! I get all morning, and am home by 5 everyday. it's amazing how things work out.

Today we went to Dawson's 1 yr. check up..little late on the calendar but oh well. He is in the 6 percentile for weight, 70 percentile for height, and 60 percentile for head circumference. .. Needless to say he isn't gaining weight. He just stays the same or looses..which keeps putting him in lower percentiles. He's never gone up he jsut keeps going down...There's some things we have to try and push for.. we go back in 2 months and we'll see wehre we are at. I think he's perfectly fine and healthy. In my gut i have no worries. Dawson is just fine :) He's the happiest baby.

Other than that, life is great!