Thanksgiving at the homefront

Brent and Steve got to go pheasant hunting and Daddy got one and the girls were just mezmorized by it. They even watched him gut it and Cloe just loved seeing the heart. "I got to see a real heart!" she's been telling eveyone.
We went out and played dodgeball for thanksgiving what a blast until...

Daddy hit a too hard and see that irritated look on Paige's face, that was a stop it look.
Cloe really got into it
Our thanksgiving table we had all the traditional stuff, turkey, green bean casserole, rolls, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pies, stuffing, cranberries..we had the missionaries for dinner and then we had friends and Uncle Steve and Aunt Ruth over later for Pies and games it was a great day!

Sweet Sweet Graduation!

Yeah!!!! We are so excited to have Brent home he graduated just before Thanksgiving and we got to go down and see him graduate we got to celebrate with dinner and a candy gram.
When we got home we threw him a surprise party he figured out something was going on but we still had a good time and he even got an oreo filled and topped cake made by yours truly.


We are so proud of him and all his hard work! Way to go Hunny!

HeadStart

Looking out the window waiting for the bus! For her first day of Preschool!

Paige says,"I do"

Kota getting on the bus!

Yeah!!!!! we got the call last week that there was an opening at the preschool for Kota and she started Monday. She loved it and fit right in, her teachers said it was like she was there all year. That morning I went in to wake her up and get her ready for preschool she was already awake just laying there she said she had been awake just laying there waiting for me to tell her it was time to get ready, she was so excited! The bus brings her there and brings her home. She said she already made new friends she eats breakfast and lunch there so she is gone half a day and everyday except every other friday! So we missed Kota! First Paige cried because she wanted to go to and then Paige didn't know what to do by herself but now she is playing dress up and having fun without having to compete with anyone at home.

Halloween!

Princess, and witch! Cheer Leader

Fairy, witch, bumblebee..... :)

We had dance class and danced like halloween costumes and had cookies and candy and then we went to the trunk or treat and treated at our neighbors houses who seemed happy to see us. Then we watched a cartoon halloween show and handed out candy. Cloe or Kota would pass out the candy and then paige would grab one more candy and give one more to only one of the trick or treaters it was cute!

Candy apples and costumes for the harvest party, girls kept changing their minds on the costumes and time was running low so we had costumes and not alot of make up or hair but we had fun!

This year's harvest party we performed thriller as a flash mob it was a lot of fun! I'm back row second in on the right side. My friend Tina put it all together. and we also mobbed the haunted house the night before!

Kota Featered at the pools floating pumkin in the paper!

Cloe's bday Extravaganza!

Cloe's Birthday, we had our traditional waffles and ice cream for dinner and left over cupcakes from the ones cloe brought to school.

She even got to blow out a candle.

Kota signed the card from her and poor cloe thought it was too kota. whoops!

The cupcakes I spent hours making for cloe to take to school I think they turned out nice.

Cloe's saturday celebration, cloe talked me into having some friends over for jackolantern's and cake and ice cream. She was very specific about how she wanted her cake and when I finished she said,"You did it just like I wanted!"

I loved her faces of her poening hte gifts it was priceless!

So Cloe's birthday felt like an extravaganza this year becuse it felt like we celebrated it awhile. We had our family party on Saturday when brent was home and then I saved a gift for her birthday and we made cupcakes for her to take to school and let her blow out another candle on her actual birthday so it was a fun time for her. Saturday we went swimming and got some floating pumpkins for her birthday and she wanted mcdonalds for her dinner and we carved pumpkins and had cake and ice cream and gifts. It was a fun day!

Casper

Brent is about halfway through the academy! We met in casper and we surprised brent with a hotel room and my mom watched the girls for a night and we all went swimming. Brent and I had a really nice date. Typical Dinner and a movie and it was nice not to have to worry about getting back to a babysitter and we also wondered the mall and got some cute date pictures it was a lot of fun!

TeamWork!

The Girls Played soccer this year and they had a lot of fun! Kota was so excited that she was old enough this year. She did a great job was aggresive and scored some goals during practice scrimmages and even one in the game, course I didn't have the heart to tell her that she scored it for the other team though. :)

Cloe and Kota are in the blue jersey's with the pink shirts.

Cloe twirling her hair which she did a lot of when it first started but she really got into playing this year. And really trying hard. Which is what her teacher said about her at teacher conferences too. She does always try very hard to get things right.

One day Cloe and I were talking about work. She said, "Dad has to go to work," I said, "Yes." She said, "You have to go to work." I said, "Yeah sometimes." She Said," Well I don't have to go to work." I said, "Well yes but you work sometimes too like when you clean your room and help mom with the chores." Cloe Said, "Mom that's not Work, That's TeamWork!"