Pumpkin Pickin'

We were a bit late in the season picking out our pumpkin and the frost two nights before left us with few choices. We decided that one large pumpkin would be what we could do this year so the kids did there best to find a big one that wasn't smooshie! :)

Yes my cute Everitt has a white nose. Face painting from at school -it's a ghost.

Corbin had a blast picking up all different kinds of pumpkins.

Corbin's Owie

Oh man, Corbin did it good this time. He was out on the deck playing and somehow gouged open his upper lip. It is the perfect shape of a smile, but no-one was smiling! I could not decide if he should get stitches or not. Of course this all had to happen when dad was out of town hunting. Finally, I decided to have my wonderful nurse friend help us out. He was already starting to heal so she taped it up. It all worked out well. He was even proud of his "bandaid mustache".  He was real brave and may end up with a scar but I am thankful we didn't have to go through the expense or trauma of Urgent Care and that it wasn't worse.

(I had to take pix on my phone and haven't been able to down load them. Hope to soon. But wanted to get the rest of my posts up. Oh, btw, he has healed well!)

Preschool Fieldtrip

Alayna's preschool group to a trip to the pumpkin patch. The kids had fun 'driving' the tractors and 4-wheelers, running the maze and we even went through the haunted house! Corbin was so happy to be included. It was a beautiful day!

Friends

Corbin and Macyee, Alayna and Ella

Alayna's 5th Birthday

Seems crazy that Alayna is now 5. She has been so excited for this birthday, I guess 5 is a pretty big deal. Well on the 11th she opened the family gifts after coming home from gymnastics. (This month is her first enrolled and she loves it.) She was excited about all the fun stuff she got. ;) Thank you.

We had to try out the roller-skates. She was getting the hang of it and we got distracted with Corbin and boom down on her bum. She decided it hurt more that it was fun! We'll try again later.

She wanted a Barbie cake for her party. I was so excited to try it out. I even used fondant for the first time. Well to complicate the event, and keep costs down, I made my own fondant. (I had never heard of this stuff before I started checking out cake ideas this fall.) Well it worked out pretty well. Not perfect, but she was quite happy. The wings help! I gave Alayna a trimmed off portion to decorate too, it was fun doing that together.

Party time! The girls were so excited. We had a great time eating cake, playing games and painting finger and toe nails! I can't wait to do more girl parties.

 Happy Birthday sweet Alayna, We love you!!

A few fun facts about Alayna. She loves pink and sparkles. Prefers to wear dresses or skirts. Even though her hair is long and I can do so many things with it she usually chooses to have it up in a bun! (I wonder if that is a Tinkerbell thing?) She loves Disney Princesses, Barbie movies, playing dress up, riding her bike, drawing and writing her alphabet. She usually wants to help me in the kitchen and plays well with her brothers always trying to be involved in their games. Her stats- 41 lbs and 3 ft. 10 in. (putting her in the 90%. ) It won't be long she will pass up Everitt. ;)

Happy Birthday Everitt

I think Everitt enjoyed his birthday celebrations. I made pumpkin muffins and took them into school on Tues. (his real birthday) and as a family that night we did presents. Then we had a real party for him Friday afternoon. It has been so unseasonably warm here that I figured we'd have our party at the playground. Right, so of course the weather decided to become stormy at the last minute. We celebrated indoors mostly and only went out for only a little bit.  Everitt is excited to be seven and a proud owner of over 150 new baseball cards and close to 100 silly bands!  Thanks :) He got about half a dozen good name player cards he is very excited over. Especially those Rockies.

Everitt is our little athlete, (he currently weighs 47 lbs and is 4 feet tall.) He always wants to be active/playing and is quite coordinated. He can't wait for basketball season to start and of course PE is what he likes most about school. He has also done great this first quarter in school. His reading and math are near the top of the class. We are so proud of him. Happy 7th Birthday.

Not sure what was behind me that had all the kids distracted, maybe the reflection of the flames in the window??

I was so happy with how his cake turned out. It was fun and Everitt was proud of it too.

Now on to the next one!