Ellie's Feast

Yesterday Ellie had a Thanksgiving Feast at her school. All of the kids dressed up as either Pilgrims or Indians. Ellie's class was Pilgrims. It was very cute and they went all out with the food, it really was a feast. She was able to sit by her friends Brinley and Rex. She loved all the food and is excited for Thanksgiving, we were in charge of bringing some Jell-O jigglers. Ellie wanted to take purple and blue ones, not the most Thanksgivingish colors, but fun colors. I was glad I was able to be there with her.

Color Guard / Bloody Nose / and the Missing Pants

Last week for Girl Scouts they had a birthday party for their founder with all of the troops in our area. Bailey's leader was in charge of it so our troop was able to do the color guard for the ceremony. Bailey was in charge of reading and bringing in the troop to do the color guard. She did a great job. I was proud of her for doing it, there were a lot of people there.

Ms. Joanne is such an awesome troop leader!

Ellie is a wild child as usual, she has gotten two bloody noses in the past week. The first time I was partly to blame, she was climbing on my legs and the slipped and she fell flat on her face. Sad! It bled a little, but on Sat. she was running into her room and tripped and slammed her nose onto Bailey's bed frame. It bled a lot! That poor girl and her nose, she is seriously going to need reconstructive surgery when she gets older. She has hit it, smashed, slammed it, quite a few times. Anyway it wasn't funny but looking at these pictures of her make me laugh. She was fine after a few minutes and was back running around. Ryan is also very prone to bloody noses so I figure it could be in the genes a little.

Logan loves undressing his lower half these days. It started with his shoes, then his socks, he seriously ALWAYS has cold feet. I have tried 5 or 6 different kinds of socks, he can get them all off. He has now moved on to his pants. If his pants are even at all lose he can get them off. Once he does he is so proud of himself and just laughs and rolls and rolls. These pictures are of his jammies that he took off about 5 min. after I put them on. He started army crawling a little this week and loves to roll under the couches or beds. He is a busy boy!

Church Baby ?

The past few Sunday's Logan has really found his voice at church. He is definitely not a newborn anymore. He loves to squeal, laugh, scream and he never stops moving. Kicking and head banging are some of his favorites. I have kind of forgotten how crazy church can be with babies. Do I already have to start counting down to nursery?? I guess the hall roaming will begin shortly. Oh well, he is worth it. It is fun and sad to watch him growing up, it is going so fast he rolls and scoots on his back everywhere and he got himself out of his Bumbo today. I thought he was going to be the mellow one, but I am beginning to think differently.

Not too much more has been going on. Bailey had a few days off from school last week for parent teacher conference. Her teacher said she is doing really well, in some things I can tell she is one of the youngest kids in her class, but in others she does really well. It is hard as a parent to know what else you need to be doing to help your child in their school work. I feel like I work with her a lot I just hope it is enough.

We finally went to see High School Musical 3, the girls loved it. I also found it enjoyable to watch. It was fun to just take the girls and see how excited they were. I am sure we will be adding 10 more HSM songs to our memories soon.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

We had a great Halloween, it seems like we have been celebrating it for over a week. With the trunk R treat, school parties and the actual day, we have gotten a lot of use out of our costumes and more candy than we will ever need. Bailey didn't' have school on Halloween so once Ellie got home, and after we took this cute picture in their Halloween shirts, we spent the rest of the day at the corn maize doing all of the fun activities there. It wasn't very busy so we were able to just play and hang out at our own pace. Thanks to my friend Hill and her great operation out there. It worked out perfect because, I needed to do something to keep the kids busy until it was finally time for trick or treating. When the time finally arrived there was plenty of fun to be had.

2 Angels and a

Handsome Little Devil

were the costumes of choice this year

I joked that the costumes should have been reversed seeing that Logan really is an angel but I think they turned out pretty cute and the kids loved it.

Logan just enjoyed being able to be outside for most of the day. He LOVES being outside.

The weather was great, it was a perfect fall day. It was excellent trick or treating weather, no jackets to cover up the costumes were necessary, the kids went until the couldn't fit any more candy in their buckets. Bailey actually came home and dumped some out and then went back out for a few more houses. They loved running around with their friends. It was fun watching them, Ellie actually said "trick or treat smell my feet" to a few people........I swear that girl..... at least she said Thank You afterwards.

Ellie and her friend Ali picking out a treat

Before trick or treating we had dinner at one of our friends house, she always makes an amazing meal in a pumpkin which the kids think is a lot of fun. It was a perfect way to start of the Halloween night.

There were some great costumes out there.

Hope you all had a very

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Here are a few more photos from some of the weeks activities. Ellie's school did a fall festival where they played games and won some cute prizes. Bailey's class had a party on Thursday, she was in charge of bringing drinks, so we made homemade root beer with dry ice. The kids thought it was pretty cool. It was fun being able to be a part of both of their parties. We decided that we would paint pumpkins this year instead of carve them. They turned out pretty cute and the kids thought it was great time.This is the table and game I was in charge of, throwing balls into the pumpkins mouth

Bailey with my witches brew

THE PAINTED PUMPKINS

I didn't make the black one, someone made it for me but isn't so cute, would totally do them like that next year I loved it.

Firsts

I stole this blog title from my friend Sarah, but I thought it was fitting for a few of the things that have been going on lately. Logan surpassed the 5 month mark this past week. He is getting so big, he is rolling over (he has been doing this since the first of the month, I am just bad at posting), he is eating cereal (which he loves), loves to be outside and is quick to give smiles. He is still such a joy.

Eating cereal and looking studly

Rolling Over
He is starting to like being on his stomach more

Ellie conquered the training wheel hurdle this past week, all it took was her 2 year old cousin Drew to do it first. We have been working with her for about a month and some of the big kids in the neighborhood rode her bike and bent the training wheels so pretty much she had to learn how to ride it without. She looks pretty grown up out there riding it up and down the side walk. She still has a little mastering to do but I think she is well on her way to keeping up with the big kids.

Look at me RIDE !

Bailey scored her first goal of the season in their last game yesterday. She has come so close a few times and finally got one. She has really gotten better at soccer this year, her coaches are good and starting to really teach them the positions and how to pass. She has been playing great on offense, defense and goalie (Ryan and I both cringe a little every time they put her in there, not because we don't think she can do it, she is just usually the smallest one and can't kick it or throw it overly far, but she does great. A few get by her and she feels bad about it, but then I tell her how many she stopped and that usually makes her feel better). She runs really fast which is fun to watch, Ryan of course think she gets this from him and I of course remind him that there is a little speed in my genes too :) It was a great season.

This was after the goal, why am I never photoing or recording at

the right moments??

Have a great Halloween week, I am excited to see all of the cute costumes out there!!

Family Comes to Town

My parents and sisters with their families came to visit us this weekend. The weather was perfect and we fit in a lot of fun activities. We met at the zoo on Friday, our zoo just got giraffes and I have been wanting to take the kids to see them. I picked Bay up from school a little early so we would have plenty of time to see everything. I am really not much of a zoo person, but I really loved seeing the giraffes, it was amazing to be that close to them, a very cool animal. Bailey has really been wanting to see them and she was SO excited, she loved it. Ellie and Drew had fun running around together and enjoying the beautiful day. It was the perfect start to a great weekend.

Bailey with the giraffe and the girls with their new stuffed monkey's that they suckered grandma into buying for them.

Ellie and Drew in a giant clam shell and Logey happily chilling as usual

Me and the kiddos in an ostrich egg

Saturday we went to Bailey's soccer game, which was a great game to watch, they played really well. After we went to the Corn Maize/Pumpkin Patch, it was really crowded due to the great weather, so we just let the kids play a little and then picked out some pumpkins. I think we will go back another day this week. The MAIZE is the best one in town, if you haven't checked it out yet, you should.

Bailey with her pumpkin she picked and Ellie in the corn box

That night we went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner to celebrate the fall birthdays in my family. My dad and sisters all of b-days in October. It was delicious as usual and fun to eat good food and hang out with everyone.

Sisters at Dinner

The kids had a blast with Drew and their aunts, uncles and grandparents. We love when you come to visit us, come back again soon.

Nothing like some tissue paper hats to finish out the weekend

Kids Activities

Fall brings lots of fun activities with it. Bailey has been playing soccer which she has really been enjoying. She has a great coach and fun girls on her team. Her team is called the Tigers, it has been fun to watch. We are hoping that our SNOWY day (yes I said snow, not happy) won't cancel games tomorrow.

Ellie went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch this week. It was pretty cold, but he still had a good time. She got to pick her own pumpkin and go on a hayride and through the corn maze. I loved the pumpkin that she picked, she did a great job. They got to wear shirts with their pre-school name on them, they had to wear them over their jackets because it was so cold. It warmed up a little later for another photo. Logan did well in his first cold weather experience, he is always such a trooper.

The first few days of the week were nice so Logan got to sport his summer hat while we enjoyed some time outside, the next day he got to sport his winter hat while we were at the pumpkin patch and running around in the cold weather. Looks pretty cute in both!