Justin's Birthday party!

October 24th 2009

Today we held Justin's birthday party. He wanted to do a sport theme so we played all kinds of sports with all his friends. He had 27 kids come to his party and they all had a lot of fun! I had bowling, t-ball, golf, punching balls, hopscotch, soccer, football, dodge ball on the tramp, frisbee, tag, hide and seek, etc. set up for the kids to play. It was fun to watch them PLAY BALL and have fun! I was just happy we had good weather!

Playing games with Rob. He is so good with kids, they loved playing with him!

The kids playing games on the lawn!

Katie and Megan eating lunch. Since it was a sport themed party we had hot dogs, chips, fruit, and water. I had them eat on blankets on the lawn like a tailgating or sporting event.

Justin eating his cupcake!

The cupcakes!

Gift bags. They had fun sport bracelets, stickers, sport erasers, gum, etc.

Justin opening his presents. He got so many fun and nice gifts thanks to such great friends.

Justin and all his friends holding the presents they brought him. 2 of his friends came after this picture. What a fun party!

It's raining, it's pouring....

October 2009

Today with the preschool kids at free play time the girls wanted to go outside and play in the rain. They sure did have a fun time!

Brooklynn, Jade, and Katie!

Pumpkin patch Fun!

October 2009

Today I took the kids to the pumpkin patch they had a lot of fun in the corn maze and riding the tractors.

Katie, Justin and Megan in the corn maze.

The kids on the straw!

Katie, Justin, and Megan by corn maze!

Riding the tractors!

Cute little baby Ryan!

Superheroes!

October 2009

So today my kids all came out of Justin's room running around like super heroes. This is a common occurrence at our house. They love to save the day. Megan in this picture happens to be the super dog actually. They are so fun to watch play together!

Katie, Justin and Megan!

Halloween fun!

October 2009

Every year I take the kids to our City's Halloween festival. They always have so many fun and exciting things. Games, costume contests, dancing, straw scramble, jump houses, etc. It was sure a lot of fun.

Justin, Megan and Katie!

Yeah Megan!!!!!

October 2009

So I potty trained Megan! My sweet friend Tiffany gave me the book how to potty train in 3 days! It so worked she was great by the 2nd day and is doing fantastic even at night!!!!! Yeah Megan we are so proud of you and mom and dad are so happy no more diapers!!! She had several prizes she earned here she is with one of her sticker charts full! She got ice cream for one and $2 to anything she wanted at the dollar store (she chose a princess necklace and some princess chap stick). Keep up the good work cutie!

Visiting Grandpa! Happy anniversary Rob!

October 4, 2009

Today 9 years ago Rob and I got married. Wow such awesome and wonderful times and memories! 4 beautiful kids and more memories than I can remember. Thanks for so many great years. I am so grateful to spend a lifetime and eternity with you! Rob and I went to dinner on Friday night to celebrate to my favorite restaurant the Texas Roadhouse. While there he gave me a Diamond necklace for our anniversary and then earrings (they were for my birthday in a few weeks but he couldn't wait to give them to me and they matched) They were beautiful! I wanted to cry, and he was so happy he picked them out himself! Then we went bowling I actually got in the 100's I was so happy but he still won! Then we went and got ice cream at spoon me really great yogurt with fruit! Yum. It was a great night and lot's of fun. Then on Sunday in between conference we drove down to visit Rob's grandpa and take him dinner with Robs parents the kids had a great time with grandpa!

Grandpa.

Rob playing with Ryan on the floor!

Ryan, Grandpa, and Great Grandpa! (Just missing daddy for 4 generations)!

A first taste....

October 2009

Wow the little guy is eating rice cereal. 4 and 1/2 months old he sure does love it!!! This was his first real food!

Yummy!

More???


All done and tuckered out!

Bottling, bottling, and more bottling!

September & October 2009

This has been a busy fall but I hope to have a nice storage room when I'm done. Look how pretty the colors are of all the jars. I didn't take pics of everything but here are some. I have done Tomatoes, salsa, peaches, pears, chicken, roast, apples, and apricots. I did some bottling and freezing of all of them. I still have more to do but haven't had the time to do it. Hopefully I can get to it when my kids are feeling better!

Tomatoes

Salsa

Pears

We're getting closer!

September 2009

I am so proud of my handy husband. He has been so diligent this year working in our basement trying to finish it so we can move the kids downstairs and create an office for Rob. With a little help from others he has done some great work. We just passed our 1st inspection and are close to being ready to sheet rock! Here are some of the pics of Rob working hard!

Hall and 2 closets!

Office and bedrooms!

Getting the ceiling ready for sheet rock!

September 2009

Some fun random pictures of the kids!

Katie playing with Ryan! She loves her little brother if he is ever sad or needing attention Katie will run over and play with him. And she can sure get him laughing more than anyone. He loves her.

Katie, Megan, and Ryan playing in the laundry baskets while I was doing laundry!

Megan, Katie and Ryan! I love this photo of them! I think they are so cute!

Megan!

I took this picture while out shopping for the girls in JCPenney. I thought about buying these for them for their Christmas dresses. I ended up getting others but I still liked the photo!

Off track fun at skate park

September 2009

While off track I went with my friend Tracy to the skate park! Our kids had a great time! Here are some pics of them!

Justin (sorry it's sideways I tried turning it several times)

Megan on her horse!

Katie on her scooter!

Megan with her hat on backwards, silly girl! We got it right before we got to the park!

Happy 7th Birthday Justin!

September 21, 2009

I can't believe my little boy is 7 wow the time has flown by. He is my grown up first grader and we are so proud of him! He had a fun filled birthday.

Justin with his Rocket cake!

Closeup of the cake!

Justin really wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese and play the games and eat dinner. So we went there that evening. All the kids had a really good time. Here they are with Chuck E!

Justin eating pizza!

Justin opening presents in his Spider man costume of course! Justin was so cute this year some years I know months in advance what my kids want for their birthdays but not this year. I finally took him to Toys R Us and told him to walk around and let me know what he wanted. Here he is with his Spy watch from brother Ryan, I got this a few months ago because I knew he would like it. He did. Megan picked out popcorn for him and Katie bought him chips. They were so cute out of everything they could get him that's what they wanted to do!

Justin opening his race track from Rob's parents!

Justin with his Marble toy! This is such a hit all the kids have had so much fun with this. I love all the creativity that goes with it. Endless ways to put it together and he can do it all by himself! We got him the more advanced one but it wasn't until we got it home and I started to put it together that I realized that was not what we wanted. It said it would take 4-6 hours to construct! No thanks we took it back and got this one! Much better!



Justin with all his birthday gifts.


Justin with aunt Shannon and uncle Brandon at my parents for birthdays! He got Lego's from grandma/pa and is loving them!

Soccer Fun!!!

September 2009

It's fall and that means it's SOCCER time again! Which means fun but busy too!!! This year Katie and Justin wanted to play, they already had a coach for Justin's team and he's great so Rob is coaching Katie's team! It has been a lot of fun a little crazy at times when both games fall at the same time, but still fun! Katie is trying really hard to be aggressive and get in there but seems to enjoy herself. And Justin is enjoying a coach that is really pushing and teaching him. They are learning to play positions and it has been really fun to watch him learn so much. Keep up the great work kiddos you're doing GREAT!

Justin on picture day!

Rob with Katie!

Justin's team and coach. Justin is playing with his friend Kelsie, Bailey, and Jackson a friend from school!

Katie's team with dad! She is playing with her best pal Brooklynn!

Justin playing goalie. He told me the other day "mom it's a lot harder now to get goals because they have a goalie and they get to use their hands" I agreed that this made it more difficult. But he likes it.

Justin throwing in the ball!

Rob with Katie and Brooklynn!

Justin waiting to go in!

Katie excited to play!