Halloween

I got to see the girls at their school for the costume parade!! Make friend sent me this picture!  Very cute!  Then I raced home and made a cake for a funeral and cupcakes for Paiges class.  I brought treats for her class. I came and watched Cloe perform a play for her Class.  It was really cute.  She was the Narrator and then I stayed and did some creative movement Halloween style with the Paige's class.  We pretended to be Monsters and ghosts and Cowboys!!  Paige loved having me.  I helped her pass put her treats and then sat and ate with her.  She even wanted to make the rounds around the school passing out all the cupcakes.  It was fun seeing her enjoying putting smiles on peoples faces.

Princess paige, cheerleader Kota, vampire Cloe, and butterfly Bristol!  

Bristols first Halloween!!  She did get a sucker with the wrapper on!  But other then that and the nerds she found on the ground she stayed pretty sugar free! She enjoyed going around the festivities and chewing on her butterfly antennae!

We went downtown did the trick or treating there and train ride and hayride!  

Then we went off to the retirement center haunted house and the church trunk or treat.  Then we hit a couple friends door to door and we surprised our friends the Hoffman's for a drop off and a nice Halloween visit!!!

Happy Halloween!!

Cloe's Birthday

 Cloe's birthday!  She turned nine!! I can't believe it!  I am so proud of her!  She is such a sweet, kind,  smart, and funny girl!  She has a wonderful teacher this year and she is just blossoming and finding herself.  I love to see her say what she is thinking!

 Her and her sisters made her cake.  I was attempting some marshmallow fondant and I didn't quite get it right but the girls made the best of it, had fun, and it turned out great!

We took her swimming and she took her friend Katelyn and then we headed to pizza hut.
We had waffles and ice cream for  breakfast and did gifts.

Pumpkin and Party

 Bristols First Pumpkin Carving.  She was checking it out and trying to taste the goo, it was really cute.

 We all got gooey!  Thanks to the Anderson's for Yummy Family Home Evening Treats of cinnamon rolls.

 Cloe made a cute cat, Kota made a horseshoe, and Paige made a one eyed pumpkin face!

 Face Painting at the Harvest Party!

 Kota and Mom

Kota with her warty witch fingers.

We also had fun at the costume skate this year.

Balls, Bucks, and Babes

 Cloe's first season of volleyball.  Dad helped coach.  She did awesome!

 Busy baby Bristol!

 Paige and Kalli fun friday!  Dress ups, cookies, Nail polish, pedicures, watching Frozen, and running around like crazy.  Awesome night we got to keep her until late!

 Paige and her buds at Muffins for Mom...Paige is well liked in kindergarden.  The girls keep fighting over her at school so I'm having to teach her to speak up and say what she needs and wants.

 Mom and Cloe at Muffins for Mom

Kota and Catcher at Muffins for Mom

 Brent helped pass out /muffins for Muffins for Mom and then on a run!

Cloe, Kota, Brent, Bart, and Ryan went hunting and Brent got his deer.  They had a lot of fun.

HOA BBQ playing in the leaves.  We also had a game of softball.  Fun Day!  Love the Hoffman's we're so happy we're neighbors.  Their daughter is so cute she kept chasing the girls saying, "Casey Girls, Casey Girls!"

Family Photo Shoot

I don't even know what to say except, "I love my family!"

Thanks to our friend Tenika we got family photos this year!!  We were grateful to be apart of her pay it forward experiment!  Read her blog for the details  http://tenikaleigh.blogspot.com

Bristol 6 Month

I have been really enjoying watching Bristol grow up!  She is such a sweetie and is just enjoying learning every part of life!  I was just thinking the other day how excited she must have been to come to earth and et her body and now she is just so excited to learn how it works and experience the world around her! I hope I don't squish that!  She is crawling!! She was getting up on her hands and knees all through month five and just bouncing real hard and then she would push forward and land on her tummy to see if she could reach what she wanted yet.  Then she's get back up and do it again and get up on her toes it is so fun to watch! 

                                   

She likes to jabber (talk) away!  She can't stand being still and forget cuddling unless she's asleep!  But when she is asleep she knows the minute you put her down and is awake. When she wakes up her eyes are wide awake there is usually no Inbetween.  She's gotta be right in the action. She fights  sleep so badly!  Forget about books and rocking and singing songs with this one! But she does love to be held and go around and do everything I do.  Not watch but be right in the action.  And I would just carry her around all day if I could.  I especially love it when she watches me walk around or cries when I leave the room for a minute!  I love her cute giggle and she smiles at me every time I smile at her!  She loves her sisters, in fact she's got the crawl down right at 6  months and she was crawling after them today!  I love her sleepy sounds, a quiet awwww.  

She loves her bathes and she splashes like crazy!! I think she is going to be left handed she wants to do things with her left hand.  She doesn't like food yet and spits it out whenever I try!  She also throws the spoon around.  So we will stick with breast milk for awhile.

Everything goes in the mouth to be chewed since month 2!  And no she is not teething.  She loves to play with toys and of course put them in her mouth along with paper. She just pulled herself up to the couch from the ground.  She is super smart and turns herself around and pushes herself off of her bouncy chair and car seat and then can stand and hold herself up without guidence or help. I could just go on and on and on!  We love her and feel blessed to have her.   

She hates the car but put in the soundtrack to frozen, track 4, and the crying stops.  Want her to sleep? track 11.  She also loves the wonder pets and everyonce and awhile she will swing and fall asleep to that!

                                  

                                 

What fun!!!

Thanks to my friend Tenika for taking the first four photos!  We were one of her first and so glad to help her get started and blessed to be a Guinea pig.  Check out her blog and get the full story!  It's a good one!  http://tenikaleigh.blogspot.com