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Conner is not into taking picture for me these days, so this is good as it gets!
Not only is today going to be beautiful but the entire weekend! I have asked Heath to go ahead and start hanging the Christmas lights this weekend...but he kind of growled at the idea...we shall see if he changes his mind!
This is my absolute favorite shot! Just an update, we have been 5 days successfully without his "Wa-Wa," {pacifier}. He has asked for it only a couple of times, but we just tell him he is a big boy now!
Pointing to Conner who was hanging like a monkey!
Once again this is good as it get for a posed shot!
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Well if you ever have heard this expression than it is probably right!!! Anyway, I have heard from 2 of my fellow blogger friends that this actually works! What are you asking...Advertising with Google AdSense on my blog? I have given Google permission to place advertising websites on my blog with the incentive that for lots of "clicks" on them I will get paid! I know it really seems to good to be true. I am going to try it for a month to see if it really pans out. All I'm asking you my blog friends/stalkers is to click on the ads that will be placed under my posts. There is no set amount that I will receive, it is just by seeing how many clicks the advertisement is clicked on. Even if it is too good to be true...it has cost me NOTHING! See if it works...it will be a great way for my other friends to do the same on their blog! So please start clicking so I can update you if it is too good to be true!!!
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First off thanks to my niece, Gina, for letting me steal her pictures off of her blog! She was very gracious enough to take some great pictures for me! Anyway, the boys have been begging Heath to take them deer hunting for the past year. Since Heath is not an avid hunter, we kindly asked our nephew, Jason, if he would be able to tackle the request! So of course he said yes and the boys were thrilled! Youth season started early on Saturday morning, but Heath and the boys got a head start on Friday night! Not by choice! Heath was on his way to take the older boys to his brother's house to have them spend the night, so they could get up early and start their first hunt. Well Mr. Buck decided to run out in front of Heath on the way and shattered the passenger door window and damaged both passenger doors, causing $2400 worth of damage! The glass actually shattered on Corby's face, and he even had a few minor cuts on him and some lovely deer hair as some evidence left behind. Luckily everyone was fine and we are thankful my parents have a third vehicle we can borrow!
I was told they were actually up early and set out before 6am! I can tell from Corby's slanted eyelids!
Jason and the 2 excited first time hunters!
It's shocking to me that they last 3 1/2 hours because I didn't know Preston could be quiet for that long!
I was also told they didn't go hungry and had an abundant supply of snacks! Their first hunt was not very successful but they are hoping to go back in January and hopefully they will have something to show then! Thanks Jason for being so gracious to put up with these 2 and interrupt your own hunting! {Although from the looks of Gina's blog, you had a great hunt!}.
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Happy Halloween 2009 from the Eckler's!!! Hope everyone had a great night with their ghosts & goblins trick-or-treating! Although it was a bit nippy, we were just very relieved there wasn't any rain in the forecast!!! The boys got a huge loot...some may start disappearing very soon! As you can tell I got the oldest 2 to cooperate one more year for a somewhat "theme" Halloween! The oldest 2 have informed me that this will probably be their last year, because as Preston put it, "Mom we are growing up" {sniff sniff}. We shall see what next year brings!
And this is a "somewhat" cooperative group shot! I'll take whatever I can get these days!

Once he figured out the process of running up to the door, ringing the doorbell, and then these people put candy in his basket he though it was a pretty cool concept!
Preston played the vampire part quite well!
Once again the ole' wagon came in handy and saved my arms and back! Heath had the best deal and would just follow me with the car, as I noticed him on his phone checking football scores!
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I was trying to figure out when the heck we were going to be able to fit in our annual pumpkin carvin' extravaganza in the Eckler household with our busy week! We were suppose to have family pictures taken last night, but like a broken record in our area...it rained once again! So last night was the perfect night to put on a pot of chili and take part in our carvin' of our pumpkins.
Quin pretty much assisted with everyone's pumpkin so we didn't let him have his own! I know bad mom! He pretty much was in the center of it...literally sitting in the middle of the table driving the boys nuts!
Conner was all about carvin' up his own jack this year! He scooped out all the guts by himself and wanted to take part in the cutting, but we told him 4 year olds cannot have a knife!
Quin working on the pumpkin with Conner, although Conner would rather him not!
Grandy even came over for some chili and helped/assist the boys that we didn't make any trips to the ER! We only had one sighting of blood and that was Grandy's thumb! Corby asked him if he could use his blood on his vampire teeth on his jack...Grandy didn't find that too humorous!
As you can tell the tears started to flow! Conner was not happy when he couldn't cut his own face out!
But he cheered up pretty quickly and was proud of his very own jack-o-lantern!
Preston completed his entire masterpiece on his own!
Corby got creative and used the stem as his nose. I tried to look for the creative patterns in Wal-mart but they seem to have sold out pretty fast!
Our finished up carved Jack's!
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