Its Fall Time

 Andrew was having a blast at the eye doctor trying on glasses.   He doesn't need glasses but his sister Ashleigh does.

 Here's the new Ashleigh!  She's been struggling with headaches, eye twitches and blurred vision this past month.  We found out that she is near sighted.  It's not a very strong prescription but the glasses have made a huge difference in her life.  She chose out these glasses.  We love her in them.  They are a deep eggplant purple.

 Having fun making caramel apples and eating them.  Yum!

 Kamren just finished his last cross country race and the kids are having a blast hanging out with one of our friends.

 Here goes Kam!!

 We always try to make it a tradition to do a farm experience in the fall.  We found a new place through groupon and we loved it!

 The kids loved going down the slide.

 Andrew loved trying to hit a target with small pumpkins.

 It was fun to pet all the animals at the farm and taking photos.

 All the kids tried the zipline.  It was small but they all loved it.

 Ashleigh found this costume that Brynn is wearing at a neighborhood garage sale for 4 dollars.  It was brand new.  Brynn is our Hollywood star!  My grandma Edith just passed away and my mom said she always dressed up as a Hollywood star.  This is an honor and tribute to her!

 The girls still enjoy making the rubber bracelets.  Ashleigh has picked up on making some new styles.

 We all love the fall hayrides with apple cider and cinnamon donuts.

 My favorite time of the year.  I love the Fall colors.

 Our family got lost in the corn maze but Kam was able to save us!

 Kevin was gone for a week so I tried to come up with some fun activities.  The girls wanted to make some chocolate chip cookies.  We love eating the dough.

 Those cookies were gone in a flash.

 I workout and teach at the YMCA.  The boys love sitting in the high bar stools watching the kids play on the track.  This is our tradition everytime we go.  I try to pass it by but they always remind me:)

 The girls wanted braided flowers in their hair.  You can't really see it but it was so cute and easy to do.

 Andrew needed some new shoes and we were searching for a deal.  After going to a few stores with the prices a little too high for the budget, Andrew said to say a pray.  I said a prayer and a thought came to me to call a second hand store and they had the perfect shoe for the perfect price!  They were practically brand new.  Andrew is a spiritual boy.  He is constantly reminding me to turn to God for help.  Andrew is our tender spirit.

 BOO!!! We love this tradition. Every year we pick two families in the neighborhood and we leave them treats.  The kids picked out two of their friends to boo.  It was so much fun to not get caught except Brynn couldn't hold it in and told one of her friends at school that we BOOed them.  It's okay!  She said she was just too excited to keep it a secret.

 Back to the 80's party, here we come.  It was fun to make my costume and really think back about the 80's.  There were some fun times back then.  I feel like I'm getting old.

 Ashleigh, Brynn and Andrew did great at their annual primary program.  All of them memorized their parts with a bribe of a candy bar.  It's amazing what they will do for a treat.  Ashleigh wrote her own talk and did a great job. She sang all of the songs so beautifully.  Brynn said "I can live with Heavenly Father again if I am obedient."  Brynn sang with the biggest and happiest smile ever.  Andrew said, "Jesus Christ is our Savior".  Andrew was so fun to watch as he would sing and then he would wave and then he would smile and then he would sway back and forth.  Primary Programs are our favorite sacrament meetings.

 We just got booed!!!  We were carving our pumpkins and then we got booed.  The kids were so excited.

 Brynn was loving all the treasures we got in our boo bag.

 Kevin was Richard Simmons and I was a fame girl.  Too much fun!  I actually have memories of doing the Richards Simmons tapes with my mom in the living room.

 Carving pumpkins was great this year.  Kam got to use a stryker tool to carve his pumpkin out.  He loved that.

 I love love love Ashleigh in glasses.  She is a cutie!

 Ashleigh, Brynn and I each have the same color vest.  They still like to dress like their mom!

 It's a roundup night at our elementary school. The girls had fun dressing up like cowgirls.   It was fun to have lots of western games and activities.  I was able to help with the ticket desk while the kids played games and danced.

 They loved being with their friends.  Ya'll come join us now!

 Connor has special visits every six weeks to help him with his language. These visits will only last until he is three.  He is doing great and Andrew loves to help him with all the activities he has.  The helper said Connor will be fine, he just had too many siblings talking for him.  Since the kids have been in school Connor is really progressing.

 Whew!  We made it a week without Kevin.  He was so lucky to go to San Francisco for work and explore one of my favorite places. He brought them back my favorite treat, Ghiradeli chocolate.

 Brynn cut this out all by herself!

 Connor loved painting his.

 Happy Halloween.  It literally rained all day and then it let up for a few hours and started raining again.  Connor is our little dragon,Brynn is our hollywood star, Kam is our hunter, Andrew is Mr. Potato Head, and Ashleigh is Cleopatra.

 Here are the jack o lanterns.  You can't see Ashleigh's and Andrew's that well but they were so cool.   Ashleigh drilled flowers all through the pumpkin and Andrew made a pumpkin face drilling holes.

 We went to a Halloween Stryker party for an hour a few days before Halloween with some of our friends.

 We haven't done Home Depot crafts in a long time but it was fun to make a boat today.

 Andrew and Connor hammered in all of their nails and painted it too.  They are growing up.

 Sweet Cleopatras!

 We don't get nice October weather that often so we try to take advantage of it.  Connor was loving the trucks at Andrew's preschool.

 These boys are the best of friends.  I'm so glad I have two boys together.

 Connor absolutely loved Halloween this year.  He knew how good candy really tasted this time.

 Andrew was given this costume by our neighbors this summer and he remembered that it was given to us.  He was the cutest potato head ever.

 Brynn finished her first season of soccer and she's ready for the Spring season.

 I helped watch one of my friends children in church one Sunday and she surprised us with all of these pringles!  She works for Kellogg and they just bought out pringles!  The kids were in heaven.

 Happy Halloween Dinner.  We spaghetti for witches hair, sauce for dracula's blood, garlic bread for tombstone, salad for lily pads, pickles for witches fingers, brocolli for witches broom, root beer for witches brew, grapes for goblins eyeballs.  Its fun to do this tradition and we also have hot dogs another night for the tradition I grew up with.

Brynn and Connor are putting the grapes in their eyes.  Spooky days are now over.

School Begins

 Sweet little Andrew going to Montessori preschool.  He loves his new teacher Mrs. Eley.

 Kam  and Brynn are playing soccer on Saturdays.  They both love it.  Can you tell Kam loves it?  Honestly, he really does.  He's not into picture taking.

 The weather has been amazing for September.  Our friends invited us to go on a bike ride and we got to enjoy the lake and all the activity that was there.

 I finally got rid of the last of the brass in my house from my front door.  Kevin gave this to me for my birthday!  I love it!

 Ashleigh and Brynn had their open house at school. Ashleigh showed me all around and then helped me sell school apparel for the PTO.

 I am now officially 39.  The kids made me yummy breakfast and salmon for dinner.  I'm grateful for all the phone calls and cards.  Everyone is so nice!

 Some of the neighbor kids wanted to help Ashleigh decorate my cake!  I love to watch them all work together.

 For my birthday we went to Kevin's work party.  The kids had a blast riding on the camel.  It was a huge carnival and it was a sunny day.  My favorite.

 The girls saved up all their tokens to get this one big rainbow fish!  Life wouldn't be the same without our neighbors Molly, Mia and Elise.  I couldn't keep up with Kam.  He was loving all the food and games on his own.  He was loving his new freedom with a phone and texting.

 Colin and Kam at their first cross country meet.  They did great.

 Kam and Spencer are friends at church and also at school.  It's a blessing they have each other.

 Kam received his star in scouts with many other patches he earned at scout camp.  He is now working on his life!

 The girls ride bikes to school every morning together until it gets cold.

 Andrew loves to play with Giovanna but he calls her Julievana.  It's so cute.  They were in preschool together last year but he can't stop talking about her.  They play so well together.

 Ashleigh has picture day today.  She is very into fashion and getting ready for an event.  It's so fun to watch her grow up.

 Brynn wore he dress to school for picture day:)

 I love this picture of Brynn.  She is so easy going and makes everyone happy.

 Can't get enough of friends and playing at the park.  We are loving the weather.  We invited two of our neighbors to our ward activity at the park.

 Happy Birthday Kev!  I made him his favorite pumpkin chocolate chip cake.

 We found pumpkins for one or two dollars nearby and Andrew had fun picking out five pumpkins.  One for each of the kids!

 We had the missionaries over for dinner for Kevin's birthday and also a friend from church.  It was fun to celebrate together.

 This is Ashleigh when she's not at school.  She loves books!  She likes to read them in our bed each night.

 Our friend from church gave us the rainbow loom to make these bracelets.  Ash is making them for everyone now.

 I love my new table runner that my friend gave me for my birthday.  It matches everything perfectly.

 We made Kevin breakfast for his birthday.  We sure love him.

 Most of Kam's meets have been hot for him and he cramps so easily but he continues to finish the course.  Go Kam.  We sure love ringing those cow bells.

 This was our first annual hot air balloon festival.  It was just down the road from us.  We loved watching the light ceremony with the balloons.  Kam was at the high school football game.

 We also loved watching the airplanes take off and land right at the airport while the hot air balloon festival was going on.

 I took the kids back in the morning to watch more hot air balloons go up.  One day I hope to ride in one.

 My favorite treat for the fall is the pumpkin cookies.  Yum!

 They even turned out great being dairy free for Ash!

 Connor is growing up to be a big boy.  We sure love this little guy!  He loves to go to all the parks and play.  He loves to socialize too.

 Every year the fifth graders get to go on a camping trip.  This was a big step for Ashleigh since she has some anxiety, but she did great!  She wants to go again.

 Four of my friends recently had babies and Connor was so sweet coming along with me to visit them and deliver their gifts.

 Ashleigh was so good at camp that she won the highest award along with her friend at church.  Only one boy and one girl were chosen to receive this award.  She won 200 dollars to go on another camping trip.  She can't wait to use it.  She is always happy to help others and choose the right.

 I've never had a birthday party during the week but it all worked out.  Our weekends are very busy with soccer so we tried a Wednesday evening.  This year Brynn chose to have an American Girl Doll Mystery Game party.  All the girls got to dress up as their character and bring their doll.  We had a blast solving the mystery together.

 We ran out of time to even play with their dolls but we will do it another time.

 Ashleigh, Ella, and Molly were a little older and really helped at the party.  Brynn chose to have pizza, grapes, apples and pineapple, with olives, carrots and peppers for the vegetable.

 Ashleigh helped decorate the confetti cupcakes for her party.  Brynn is our little sunshine.

 Brynn loves playing the pass around the gift with music before she opens it.  I forgot to get a picture of all the decorations we did for the party.  Ashleigh did a great job hanging up balloons and making tissue flowers.

 Brynn wanted donuts and orange juice for breakfast.

 The kids were super happy about that idea.  She loved opening her presents in the morning.  She loved her new nail polish, craft stones, ken and barbie that Ashleigh gave her, lego sets, notebook, new clothes and shoes and everything from her loved ones.

 Brynn loves her new ukulele she got from her grammy and grampy in hawaii.

 Happy Birthday Ella!  They had fun making caramel apples at Ella's house to celebrate her special day.

 For general conference we went to a friends new house.  They used to live close to us but they are now three hours away.  The guys went to eat and to the priesthood session.

 The kids had fun cooking while the guys were at the meeting.

 Andrew's first day of preschool.

 Brynn loves first grade with Mrs. Chenery.

 Fifth grade is great with Mrs. Fitzhenry.  Kam had her as a teacher as well.

 Good bye to the old front door and storm door.

 Happy 2nd Day of School.

 Ashleigh loves to make everything cute so she helped me make her front school folder.

Happy 1st Day of School.