Let it snow

It snowed last week. The kids LOVED playing in it. They were outside until dinner time the first day and the next day was a snow day and they didn't have to go to shool so they played outside ALL day. It's not that we had so much snow that they couldn't go to school but they were expecting ice on the roads and so they cancelled school. I had my first expirience driving on ice. It was a little scary for me. I was trying to slow down without pushing on my breaks but I had to a little because i was coming up to a stop light and there was a car infront of me. I couldn't hardly stop and I was sliding on the ice. Aaaahhh! I tried to stay calm and not panic. Luckily I was able to stop intime and the car behind me stoped in time. YAY! I was so releived! There are still small patches of snow around because it has been so cold it hasn't melted all the way yet. But for the most part, it is gone.

Here are some pics from our snow day...
Day 1


They played until dinner time...


Day 2
Friday morning...

10 years!

Happy Anniversary to the Love of my life and the greatest guy I have ever known. What I did to deserve you I do not know, but I feel like the luckiest girl in the World!

I know I had this picture on here last year but it's the only one I have on my computer. So you get to see it again. ;o)

October 2009

Happy Birthday to my first born...

Today is Tyler's 9th birthday. We are so blessed to have him in our family. He is such a sweet boy and a hard worker. He has always been such an angel. Yes, he is a boy who LOVES to tease his sisters. But he also looks out for them. He is always there for Mom when needed. He does things to surprise me that make me so happy. We had a New Years eve party at our house and the night before, while I was getting ready for bed, Tyler cleaned up the toy room to perfection. He didn't want to use the vacuum and wake up Katie so he crawled around on the floor picking up every little speck. The next night after everybody left our New Years Eve party at 2:15AM, I began to clean again all by myself so I could have a chance to enjoy the clean house in the morning. (My sweet hubby Tim, and Kenna, Katrina were asleep on the couch). I was sweeping floors and wiping counters. I dreaded cleaning the toy room and was saving that for last. That is where the kids spent most of the night and I was not looking forward to picking it all up. It was almost 3AM, I walked into the room and it was clean to perfection! Tyler had cleaned it. I was so excited! He did all of this with out being asked. I could go on and on. Happy Birthday to my our baby boy. We love you!

I was sooo young... Me 9 months pregnant with Tyler...

Tyler's blessing day...

Tyler 6 months old... Tyler was always our over achiever. He started crawling at 5 months and walking at 7months. Katie is just over 5 months and she doesn't even roll all the way over. I can't imagine Katie crawling right now.

7 months...

2 years old...

8 years old...

Charlie the Elf

This year we had an Elf from the North Pole stay with us. He arrived after Thanksgiving. Kenna named him Charlie Katrina called him Elfie and Tyler went with whatever (and Katie doesn't know the difference). They were so excited to have this Elf in our home. They did better at keeping up on their chores and tried to be on their best behavior. They were always excited to wake up in the morning to see what the Elf had done that night while they were sleeping. The girls adored Elf and took turns holding him tight at night while falling asleep. It was hard for the elf to escape their arms each night but he managed to get away too play. One night Kenna left her Lego's out and he had fun building with them. One morning he left a trail of ornaments on the ground and was found at the top of the Christmas tree. We even discovered that he is quite the ladies man. He was found having tea with Minnie Mouse, Tinker Bell, Ariel and Jenny (Kenna's doll). He also got all tied up in moms garland that was decorating the hand rail going up the stairs. It looked like he was swinging from it - like a vine. Silly Elf. On Christmas eve he had to return to the North Pole but left a letter with his report of what he observed in our home and told them that he thought they deserved to be on the nice list and left each of the kids a present to open. It was lot's of fun having Charlie the Elf or Elfie in our home. We look forward to seeing him next year.

Oh Christmas Tree...

Day after Thanksgiving we went and picked out a Christmas tree. We didn't cut down our own tree this year like we did last year. We just did a quick and easy trip to Home Depot. That way we could spend more time at home together having hot chocolate, decorating the tree and house, and watching a Christmas movie. We watched Elf. The kids love that movie. We also enjoyed a few games of Rock Band. It was a fun day. Here are a few pics...

KATE

Decorating the tree

Rock Band

Katie found her thumb

Thanksgiving

Although we are away from our families we are so blessed to have good friends here that feel like family. Like last year, this year we got together with our group of friends from Arizona that moved here for work. We all got together at the Peterson's and had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. There was soooo much food! We got STUFFED!!! It was a great day. What more can I say? Here are some photos I stole from a friends blog...

Carving Pumpkins and Halloween

We had to do our pumpkin festivities in spurts because Tim is out of town and it takes way too long to do it all in one evening. So each day after school they quickly got their chores and homework done and then after dinner we worked on them.
Day 1: We went to a pumpkin patch (on a lot, lame I know) the kids all picked out their great pumpkin.



And we decorated the outside of the house


Day 2: We watched 'The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown' and cleaned out the insides of our pumpkins.



Day 3: We watched 'The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown' AGAIN and carved the pumpkins. The kids did them all by them selves while I fed Katie. I tried to help Katrina but she wouldn't let me. And she did a really good job so she didn't need my help anyway. She was so patient with her pumpkin it was so cute! Luckily, her's was much softer pumpkin than Tyler and Kennas.



The finished product




Halloween
Tim's company lets them dress up and they do awards for best costume or best decorated desk or whatever and then at the end of the day the employee's families can come in and trick or treat. The kids love it. It's warm inside, they don't have to walk far and they get lots of candy in a short amount of time. I wish that was good enough for the kids. But they want to go out trick or treating with friends at night too. It's just a day full of fun and LOTS of candy.
Tim dressed up...

Our family at his work...

Our poorly decorated house. Oh well. It's more than we did last year.

Katrina's Pumpkin...

Tyler's pumpkin

Kenna's pumpkin

Halloween Night



Time for bed. They had matching Halloween PJ's too. Kenna was so tired. She fell asleep in the car on the way home. She woke up the next morning with 105 temp. so she really wasn't feeling good in this pic.