A visit from AZ family

We were so excited to be able to host Kelsey, Tyler, Piper, Ferris and Andie for a night and have all the local family over to celebrate them being in town.  The cousins ran around like crazy having a wonderful time and the two generations of adults had a chance to chat and catch up.  It was a lot of fun I only wish we could have spent more time together (and remembered to take a large group family photo).

The kiddos playing

The remnants of the playroom

Dinner time, Tyler needed some quiet time

Closing out the night playing the new Pie in your face game. (Thanks Uncles Jeff and Steve).

Etienne wasn't so sure what just happened but he tried it!

Piper loved it, she kept wanting more so she could eat the whip cream of course!

Tyler got Kels with a bit of cream after his turn.

Everyone had a good time.

Jaydon kept doing it and surprisingly didn't get pied the first 3 times, he then just kept turning the clicker because he wanted some whip cream.

Here are a bunch of videos of the pie in your face fun.

Halloween decorating

I was busy getting our Halloween decorations up and around with help from the Lucy and Kate. I looked down and found Higgins in the holiday spirit.  Lucy decked him out in his costume.  He really didn't seem to mind too much.

Fall Sicknesses

 The start of fall illnesses hit all 3 kiddos at different times.  Sure enough, croup for Jaydon, vomiting for Lucy and an ear infection for Kate, they stick with what they know :-)

Gram helped watch Jaydon one morning while I worked and Grandma came over with Lego sets from Aunt Mary, they were a hit.

Kids art

I love seeing all the different projects that the kids bring home. 

Lucy made the apple and the apple tree picture

Jaydon created this shape monster

Lucy was working on her shapes, cutting, coloring and handwriting

Jaydon made this cool plant project

Jaydon wrote a story about bats.

Autumn Leaf Festival

We took a quick one night trip to Leavenworth for the Autumn Leaf Festival. We had a lovely time walking around downtown and partaking the the events.  The kids decorated their bikes and even marched in the kiddie parade.  It was a blast.

Lucy tried out the climbing wall

Kate made it halfway up the stairs before coming back down.

Lucy coming down the slide

This is all I have of Jaydon - his feet jumping - he was too fast.

Bike riding in the parade

Kate waved the whole time, it was pretty cute.

The kids watching the parade

We headed home at bedtime so the kids slept in the car, it worked out pretty well.

Bam...I did it

Almost two weeks after getting started I finally got caught up.  Thank goodness for kids being in school and Kate taking naps.  I also have to make note that a few days were spent getting Kate's 1 year baby book completed so I could take advantage of the free photo book offer I got online (and I got it done when she was still technically one - victory).  Phew...that is quite a lot of To Do List off my plate for now.  I hope to not get so far behind in the future, here's hoping. 

Lucy and Lily

We took Lily to get her hair cut, it didn't go so well (she was too worked up for them to shave) so we will try again next week.  However, when we picked her up she spent some of the car ride sitting with Lucy and the rest of it Lily was on Kate's head (unfortunately I couldn't get a pic of that).