Our Sweet Drooly Boy

A Garden Surprise

We severely neglected our poor garden this year. But we did manage to get some tomatoes, beans, lettuce, broccoli, & a few peppers. Today we cleared the garden & as I was pulling weeds, out came a carrot. Sure enough we found 6 all together. Amazing, considering that I didn't think we got any carrots. I was sure the seeds had all washed away with all of the snow we got during the spring here. It was a nice surprise. On a side note, since all the kids have been sick, it was fun to have Joseph feeling so well today. He was such a great helper weeding. I loved to hear him say, "I just love to work outside so much!" He is a great boy to have in our family.

Joy School Halloween Party

Joseph enjoyed another fun Halloween Party with Miss Jen. The kids did an awesome job singing their spooky songs & frosting some yummy cookies. We sure love Joy School.

Fashion Sense

Andrew is such an independent little boy. He likes to help pick out his clothes everyday. Most of the time he picks out everything & insists on certain things. On Sunday, he picked the blue shirt. Then he saw Rick putting on his tie & Andrew rushed to find a tie & insisted on putting it on & wearing it to church. Then Monday morning, he went to the dirty clothes basket & got his shirt back out, found his tie, & put it all on again. Boy is he handsome.

Let it Snow!

What happened to the 50 degrees the weathermen said it would be? I'm feeling really bad about the jacket Lexie wore to school.

He won't talk, but he will say...

Joseph's New Backpack

Joseph has been asking for his very own new blue backpack for a very long time. Today was the day! We headed out & he picked out his backpack & was so excited. He talked about it all day long! I'm glad he was so happy about it.

Primary Program

We are very happy Lexie & Joseph did such a great job in the Primary Program! They worked very hard on memorizing their parts & did a great job delivering them. (We're really glad Lexie was able to give her part. She was punched hard in the nose just a few minutes before her turn & Rick had to take her out while she finished crying.) It was also funny watching Joseph plug his ears while the cute little boy next to him screamed sang the songs. It's always enjoyable to watch these programs & even more so when you don't have to be in charge of it.

It's Autumntime

I have been getting excited for Fall, so when I saw this craft idea & I decided to do it with the kids. My hands got tired of punching out the holes, but it was well worth the excitement the kids had making their trees.

The finished product.

We were finally able to convince Lexie to take these down,
& put these up instead.

Happy Fall!

Happy Labor Day

We headed down to Castlewood Canyon to celebrate the day off from our labors.

The kids were troopers. We hiked, climbed, walked for 3.5 hours. But we think they really enjoyed it. After hiking we stopped in at Chic-fil-a for some free sandwiches & a pic.

We had way too much fun today!

ARRRRRRR!!

Here are the kids displaying all of their loot from a fun Pirate Birthday Party.

Posting Marathon

Sorry. We've been super busy & have not been able to get any of these posts up. We're only over a month late on some of them... Anyway, scroll down this whole page to see what you've missed. Sorry, there are like 9 of them.