Thanksgiving

This is the only picture I have from Thanksgiving. We went to my parents' house for dinner. It was very yummy! We are thankful for all our family!

Sewing Projects

The boys have sewing time once each week. It usually ends up only being about 20 minutes long so the projects go very slowly.

 Jackson made a bag for his ukulele. He had to design it himself since we couldn't find a pattern. It's a lot like the golf bag I made Doug last summer.

A little witch flying around. 

Jordan made a piano bag for his and Jack's piano books. 

Picture Dump

In the boys' dance class they do planks as part of their warm up. They try to do it as long as they can. Jackson has won every week. A few of the weeks he has tied because Miss Mallory will tell them to stop after it's been several minutes. Jackson is in the corner by the door and Jordan is in the green shorts.

Coleman spelled his name out of our magnet toys. 

Then he decided to spell all his sibling's names too. I had to tell him which letters came next. 

Then he added mom and dad too. 

Colie got to bring Spunky home from preschool for a week. He loved getting food for Spunky to eat. 

Kenzie wanted to have a picnic with some of her animals. Coleman brought Spunky to it. 

I got a donut to make hair buns at a girls' night I went to. Kenzie loves wearing it. 

Jackson's been wearing jeans more lately. It makes him look older to me. None of my kids have ever worn jeans very often so it's weird to see one in them :) 

Coleman taking a picture of himself. 

I bought the kids some new feety jammies since they were on sale and Jackson's and Jordan's had lot of holes in them.

One day I was making dinner and Coleman asked if he could eat a carrot stick. He usually will only eat a bite or two of them for lunch or dinner. I gave him one and he ate the whole thing. Then he ate a couple more with dinner. Since then he usually eats them pretty well. Some days he still won't eat more than a bite or two, but he's doing better at eating them. 

I love calm moments like this. They don't happen too often. The boys working hard, Kenzie (the tiger :)) and Coleman painting. 

We started taking turns doing family home evening (which is so much better than me just doing it each week!) Jackson did a great lesson. He told us a story about being grateful and found a scripture about being thankful. For the activity he drew a tree and cut out leaves and we wrote down the things we are thankful for. I was surprised by the amount of effort he put towards it.

We bought a new car! Our old one needed a new transmission, radiator, and probably tires soon. We had wanted to get a new car somewhat soon, and decided to just do it now rather than wait several more months. We chose a Sienna and we love it!

Can you find Kenzie? 

Coleman loves helping me make dinner. 

Coleman loves yogurt. He usually eats its for breakfast and for his snack before bed. Whenever he eats it does the color game. He hides while we get it ready. Then he guesses the color of his spoon. He also makes everyone else guess a color. The kids love to guess every color and ROYGBIV (the colors of the rainbow,) and mystery color (which they tell after they see the spoon, and it is always the right color.) Coleman will sometimes tell them only one person can say every color, ROYBIV, or mystery color. If he sees on accident he'll say "pretend I didn't see." Then he guesses they right color. He'll sometimes tell Doug and I to pretend we didn't see. One time someone asked what I guessed and Coleman said "She didn't pretend to not see" since he didn't tell me to pretend. We love this boy!

Halloween

We had a great Halloween!

We had a Halloween playgroup.  

Jack made this box guy costume. 

Box guy, Luigi, vampire, a superhero

We went to the Science Center the day before Halloween. It was a Halloween day so the kids wore their costumes.

We carved pumpkins Halloween morning. The kids did a lot more of the work than they have before.

Jack being sad like his pumpkin.

Coleman said his was Santa Claus. That's why he made hair on it.

We had our ward Trunk or Treat. They kids played games, won lots of treats and toys, and since it was raining, walked around inside the building to get candy.

Colie was a wolf (even though everyone called him a fox.)

Kenzie was a kitty cat. Since this day she loves painting doggy and kitty face on her with our face paint.

Harry Potter. He finished reading all 7 books and loved them! As soon as he was done he started reading them again. 

A scary vamire

Kenzie with some of the toys she won. She said stuffed animals were better than candy. I was surprised. She loves candy!

Coleman loves his kitty, Blacks, that he won.

Jordan took longer than the others to finish his pumpkin and I realized I never got a picture of it. He said it was Count Olaf (from A Series of Unfortunate Events.) It has one eyebrow that you can't see.

It was a very wet night. Ashlee, Konrad, Alli, and Camryn came trick or treating at our house. It was the first time we've done our whole neighborhood (which isn't very big.) Cam only lasted a few houses, then wanted to go back. She refused to accept any candy from anyone. Ash, Cam, and I went back to the house. Cam played puzzles while we waited for everyone to finish trick or treating. They said there weren't a lot of people handing out candy, but those that were gave them a couple handfuls each.