The Bear Hotel

The Christmas Season is in full swing for our family, the tree is decorated (with clumps of ornaments in all the areas the kids could reach--I love it that way), the music is playing, cookies are being eaten and yesterday we visited Santa at the Bear Hotel.  I love December!

Notice Something Missing????

During the Thanksgiving break my sister and I spent part of a day Christmas shopping together (yay for sisters!).  When I got home there was lots of leaf raking going on and this is how I found Davis.  Notice anything missing?  He looks so cute with his first lost tooth!  He could hardly wait to see what the tooth fairy would bring.  Is he really old enough to be losing teeth?!?!?

Give Thanks

 My Sister, her family and my parents were all able to come for the whole week of Thanksgiving!  What fun we had.  We were...

"singing and dancing in the rain"....

 listening on Papa's ham radio...

 eating the Dads' pies...YUM!...

 reading the paper....

 exhausted at night...

 walking around down town....

 playing on our cousins' Wii...

 learning to sew yo-yos for headbands...

 doing projects with chocolate...

baking with Hunter...having teeth problems remedied...shooting paintballs...raking leaves...playing games...date night for the Moms and Dads....movie night with Nana and Papa...Christmas shopping and of course, eating and being thankful.  I love family.  Thank you for making the trek to come be with us.  It was a wonderful week.

Davis turned SIX!

 I can hardly believe it, but my "little man" turned SIX last month. Of course, we had to celebrate Star Wars Style...

This pinata started as a soccer ball, but with a little help from my Jedi's we transformed it into the Death Star.

The morning of Davis' birthday Kate woke up throwing up.  Luckily, he still had a few friends willing to come help him celebrate and he hardly noticed that the day didn't go as I had envisioned.

 

Veteran's Day

This past Veteran's day the kids were all out of school, so I decided to join my friends Amber and Tawnya at a local children's museum for a few hours.  I had my fours kids and our friend/cousin, Eli, with us.  As I am accustom to doing, I spent much of my time counting...1, 2, 3, 4, 5....yep, I can see everyone...1, 2, 3, 4, 5...yep, they are all behaving...So, I look at Kate and Gracie who are running and jumping in the "Brain Forest" and turn around to count the three boys...1, 2, 3....I turn back around and literally this is what I see...A very happy Gracie who has stripped off her clothes, only to reveal the swim suit hiding underneath!  Seriously, so funny!  What am I going to do with her?????

Halloween...the holiday that never ends...

 Does anyone else feel like Halloween goes on and on and on????  Three school celebrations, a carnival at the church, pumpkin carving, a play group party, trick or treating...on and on and on....

The boys were Jedi Knights...

The girls were Flower Fairies....and yes, I did make their costumes and yes, I was very proud of myself and not afraid to say it. :)  Why should I pretend that I wasn't?  It was a hard thing for me to sew those capes, but I felt accomplished when they were done.  Hopefully they will still fit next year. 

The Pumpkin Patch

It wouldn't be Fall without at least one outing to the Pumpkin Patch!

 Jed, Gracie and I were all able to with Kate's preschool class.  I just love watching them.

 Of course Gracie loved the animals and Kate just loved everything about being there.