November

We look forward to park day every week. I really have to make sure I get Russy and Annie out of the house because they get so crazy when they are together. This particular time Russy asked me to take his picture because he actually buckled himself, which has never happened. And hasn't since then.

This little stinker wanted to have her picture taken too. She is in one of those really frustrating times. She is so crazy and such a beast a good portion of the time, and then she is just the cutest thing ever the other part of the time. We did a thankful tree this year and it was really fun for the kids to think about things they were thankful for. I asked Annie andMane first said she was thankful for Jesus. It was so sweet, then I asked her what else she was thankful for and she said " dark vader" she got obsessed with Star Wars recently and her favorite was darth vader.

Janie had a field trip down at the exploration center which is right by our library, so we went down so we could see her. We ate lunch with her and then afterwards they were doing a little presentation and annie went and sat with all of the first graders and thought she was just one of them I guess. She was shouting out the answers with the rest of the kids. It was too funny. She thinks she is just so big, its ridiculous. Although it just perfectly shows her personality.

We took our annual trip to Apple Hill. It wasn't quite as fun as it usually is because we went on maybe the busiest day there. It was crazy how busy it was. There was seriously wall to wall people. The line to the donuts was so long that there wasn't any way we could even think about getting any.

It has been so fun watching Russ bloom at preschool. He went from a kid that would refuse to sing, and then he started miss Pattys, and now he loves to sing me the songs that he learns at school. It was cute to hear all the thanksgiving songs that he learned. He has become quite the little artist as well. I love when he brings me home his artwork becuase he is SO proud of it. I love to hang it up becuase he thinks it is really special.

Clara has been loving her walker lately. She is pretty happy sitting in it. Russell decided that he needed to sit in it with her.

 

Another great day at the park with friends. We always love going to the library park.

We had such a great Thanksgiving this year. We had the Waldrons over and her parents over too. It was such a fun day. We had such a good time visiting and the kids played so well together that we didn't even hardly see them after we ate. I unfortunately didn't get any pictures, but that is so like me. So I decided to take a picture of my sweet cute baby that night.

And a picture of my little cuties all hanging out together. We let Russy stay up that night and he felt pretty big getting to do that.

 

Halloween 2015

It was so nice to have a bunch of costumes that I have already made so that we could use them. Even better was having sweet kids that were willing to wear costumes that we already had. In some ways I feel bad because Lizzy pretty much gets a new costume every year. But that's kindof just the way life goes. She wanted to be an angel this year so i was bound and determined to spend less than 15 dollars on her costume becuase let's face it, I'm a cheapskate and unfortunately it seems like I keep getting worse! I found some cheap white fabric at Walmart and we got her halo and wings for super cheap at Joann when there was a big sale. So I ended up ending about 12 dollars for hers. For Nellie's I knew she had been wanting to be tinkerbell for ages so I really wanted to make that happen but finding a cheap costume was hard. We ended up finding a 10 dollar one on a garage sale site that was for an adult and I just took it in on the sides and added tule at the top and she wore a green t shirt. It worked out great.

I know a lot of people like to dress their families in a theme, but I have stayed away from doing that so far because I want to let them choose what they really want to be. But they are all talking like they want to do Star Wars next year, so who knows. One thing I do know is that this is the cutest group of kids I have ever seen!

I made this costume for Lizzy about six years ago. It was just as cute on my little Jane.

My all time favorite costumes!! It was worth the time I spent all those years ago to make these costume for Lizzy so that all my girls could wear them. Especially because there is no way I could spend that kind of time now. It makes me a little sad to see that this is that last time I will have a little lamb. We are at the end of the babies, which makes me a little sad, but a lot happy for the next chapter in our family's lives. We have so much we want to do with the kids that has been too hard with so many little ones.

I love this silly captain America! He was excited to get the shield for his birthday to complete his costume.

Lizzy was a pretty little angel and this costume is perfect for her because she is pretty close to an angel for me.

I don't know if there could have been a more perfect Tinkerbell. Nellie looks so much like tinkerbell to me.

We decided to go trick-or-treating in our old neighborhood with our old neighbors the Zobels. We sure miss having them as neighbors and we sure miss that old neighborhood. The invited us over for pizza first and then we went after that. After we got about halfway done with the houses, Russell decided that he was done. Like could care less about any more candy. I think he was just tired of walking and wanted to sit down. Annie was done too. Clara had been done for quite a while and I had been giving her suckers to keep her quiet. I thought she would be all over it and would love it, and she did like the suckers,ut she kept dropping them in the wagon and I couldn't find them. I don't know why she wouldn't just hold onto them! So silly! So we ended up being done rather quickly, which was just fine by me, because let's face it, we end up throwing away a good portion of the candy anyway because they get tired of it after a few weeks and they are on to Christmas goodies.