A little update before the Big Thanksgiving Party!!

Kelton was honored at the school assembly for showing Gratitude at school. His teacher told me she was so grateful to have Kelton in her class because he is such a great student. She said she always uses Kelton's work as the example because he always fully completes all his work and does his very best! She also said that Kelton is very smart and is very good at staying on task. Good job to our little Kelty! Grandpa took this picture. I think the picture tells the whole story about life at the our home!

Kelton and his fellow grateful students.


Hayden also had a great week at school. He was in his class room play! He did an outstanding job. There were a total of 9 plays and they voted his play as #1! His teacher also told us we should take Hayden to Hollywood!! Hayden had a lot of fun doing the play and was so proud of there play! He memorized all his lines in about 1 day! Boy do I wish I had his memory.

Lexi, Kerri, Grandma, Grandpa and Lexi's friend all came to Hayden's play. He loves an audience and he was so happy to have them come. He was beaming from ear to ear! They also went and watched Halle do Ballet and participated in our school running day! We definitely had some happy kids. We were so lucky to have them!

Kelton's class covered all of their bases by having the kids not only be pilgrims, but also Indians!

Kara's class also feasted on Turkey sandwiches. She reminded me about 100 time about her feast. Right after she ran out the door to catch the bus she peeped her little head back into the house with one last reminder, "Don't forget the cheese mom!!"

Halle's little preschool class also had a feast. I missed it though with all the other feasts I was going to, but as we walked across the street to her little class she said, "mom look at all the frosting!" and then added "even though there is frosting all over the grass we can't eat the grass!"

Oh what fun it is to be a mom! I wonder what other things are not what they seem to my 3 year old. What else have I confused my sweet little child with? I don't know, but it sure is fun finding out!

Cute Things!!

I follow a friends blog and she tagged everyone with the title cute things! So I have been over analyzing the cute things in my life! I could think of lots more cute things, but only got pictures of a few! When Kara is really excited about anything she claps her hands really fast like this, I think it is cute!
While Halle plays she sings and talks to her dolls and animals! I think it is cute!

I think it is cute when little girls shrug!

I think it is cute when Halle stirs pretend food like a crazy woman!

I think it is cute when Kelton spends so much time making a special gift for grandma's birthday!

I think it is cute to watch two three year olds play so nicely together!

I think it is cute when friends dress up together and love each other. When I came up the stairs Halle's little friend reached up and tucked Halle's hair behind her ear for her. It was really sweet!

Kelton is a perfectionist and he could not get his fingers traced just right so he was so frustrated! He cried through the entire process!! I think he is cute even when he is frustrated!

Well what is'nt cute about that! That is exactly how I feel today! I wish I were just laying on my bed with them!

2 more cute things. Brent said to Hayden the other day "someday you'll grow up and get married....." Hayden replied with "No I don't want to." Brent said something I can't remember his exact words and Hayden said, "I don't even want to think about that right now!!" I thought it was funny! Hayden does not want to be bothered with any thoughts of girls unless they want to play some crazy game he has come up with!

Halle was singing the song "Sally the camel has 3 humps......" when Kelton came in and said, "there are no girl camels!" I said, "who told you that?" he said, "I have never seen a camel with eyelashes!" Well there you have it! Criteria for being a girl according to Kelton "Eyelashes"!

What are the cute things in your life! I'm tagging all of you, and please do better than I did!

TRICK OR TREAT

This year for Halloween I decided to throw away all the Halloween catalogues that came to my home before the children got a hold of them. My motive See No Evil buy no evil! I wish I had taken pictures of all the costume ideas Halle had! She ended up being Cinderella. This is her Ballet recital dress, a new crown, and Kara's old shoes! She decided on this about an hour before we went out trick-or-treating.

She couldn't stop dancing around like a princess. Originally she was going to be Dorothy, then a Fairy Princess, then The Little Mermaid. She was a Fairy for Ballet and A Fairy Princess with a big Red Snow white bow and Dorothy shoes for her preschool party! I do love how excited she gets about everything!

Kelton originally was suppose to be a Ninja, but he had seen this Skeleton on line and had his heart set on being something scary! Brent stopped at Wal-mart 2 hours before we went trick-or-treating and made Kelton a very HAPPY trick-or-treater!

Kara thank goodness stuck with the black cat idea!!!

Hayden was suppose to be a snow boarder, but changed his mind and decided to be a Zombie (I think that is what he is??) Brent did the face painting. His friend Zac and him layed in the rocks and scared people as they came to trick-or-treat! They said they had never had so much fun!!

Our trick-or-treating team! Cousin George, friend Zac, Kelton, Halle, Kara, Hayden, cousin Dillon, and cousin Reggie!

After trick-or-treating we got a visit from one of the cutest little golfers on the block!

Cousin Tiger!!! The kids love their cousins and probably would smooch on him to death if he would let them! Is he cute or what?

The big kids ran from house to house and Halle just could not keep up! Thanks to Aunt Natalie for running with the big kids! I know it is probably not fair of me to take so many pictures of My little Halle, but I'm not really a fair mom! Plus she was having so much fun! I just had to catch it on camera!!

Always a princess!

I tried to talk her into some more comfortable shoes, but she was unwilling to sacrifice beauty in the name of comfort!

Hope everyone had a very happy and safe Halloween!!!!

Party Time!!

School Parties are always fun, right? Kelton meticulously did every project. He definitely likes to finish his projects. He would not move on to the next activity until he was done! This pumpkin was colored in solid orange by Kelton he did not leave a single spot uncovered by orange marker.
I also took a trip down to Kara's class party!!! The kids love when I show up at the school! I always loved when my mom came to the school too! I remember thinking "I have the best mom ever!" Now I know I do(:

Every year I think I am going to throw a party at my house, but then I seem to get overwhelmed by everything. This year the kids invited friends over and so there was no going back! They each invited a few little friends and we played games and just had fun!

The mummy game!

Can't have a party with out some face painting by Aunt Natalie!! Aunt Natalie is an awesome face painter, and I am being serious. Her paintings always turn out so cute! I don't think I was blessed with the Art talent(:

Mr Party himself!! It wouldn't be a party with out the big Daddy! Brent always makes things fun! He always plays the fun music and does silly things for the kids!!!

He was totally worn out! Don't worry that is just a doll, not a real baby! I painted his face up for him! I told Natalie to tell him it looked good when she saw him. Do you know what she did when she saw him? She laughed hysterically, and if you've ever heard her laugh you know what I mean!! I also dressed up like a witch and painted my face green! Dang I wish I would have gotten a picture! The paint stung the heck out of my face and was a bear to remove! I had a green tint to my face and kept getting more green off every time I washed my face not to mention suffering through Natalie laughing hysterically at me!! The kids thought it was fun so maybe well do it again next year!!

Kara got invite to a little Halloween party and dressed up as Princess Leia. I had to stick this one in of her!

Football Ends!!

Hayden decided to try football this year in place of soccer. It was his first year to play, and he did pretty good. In the 1st game he even made an interception. He was a little surprised when he looked down and saw he had the ball!! He really seemed to enjoy the game and did great for his 1st time ever playing!
Hayden had a great coach that reminded me of his Uncle Brady! He had so much heart!! He just kept trying to get the kids to put there heart and soul into the game! He was so nice with the kids and really was very positive and good with the boy!

We are grateful to people who sacrifice their time to teach our kids and are good examples too!

When Hayden started playing he was amazed how much strategy went into the game of football! He told us football takes a lot of brain power!! The coach had them memorizing plays and running all sorts of plays. Here is the hand off play to Hayden!!

We can't forget about the support team!! Hayden absolutely loves an audience!!! He loves to have people come and watch (he did not get that from me, I hate an audience). He really appreciates when anyone comes to his games!!!

Grandma and Halle braved the weather for this game!!

Grandpa and Daddy (picture by Kelton)! Grandpa was definitely prepared for the cold weather!

Last but not least, Kelton also showed his support! It really does get cold on the sidelines! Brent told me one game I looked like I was going under cover! I hate to be cold so I really bundle up for the games and most of the times look so unbelievably silly, but no one recognizes me because I go incognito!!!