Right Now

This is what's up around here right now....

Buddy has made his reappearance and it is a HIT. This is our fourth year with our Elf on the Shelf. The girls have always been in to it but Heidi just LOVES him this year. She is all about him. She writes to him, talks to him, talks about him, analyzes why other people can't see their elves and just loves him in general.

Buddy hasn't been too feisty around here over the years. Maybe this year he'll do more things like this....

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 Taylor's Swift's album RED. I love it. I've listened to it approximatly one hundred times already. It's on right now. Kyla got it from Heidi for her birthday. (I've gotten the most use out of it). #s 9,11,13,14, & 16 are my favorites.

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Costa Rica. I hope it really looks like this. I will see soon. :)

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& Cheerleading.

We're all (Me, K, & H) are becoming first time cheerleaders tonight. That's right, the girls are starting cheerleading with a program at our church and I'm the coach of 10 Kindergarten-2nd Grade cheerleaders. Wish me luck.

DEFENSE!!!!

Heidi Hand-Me-Downs

Heidi 19 months

Molly 21 1/2 months

Tree Hunt 2012

So glad we waited and didn’t go (like tradition) yesterday in the pouring rain. We went today instead, to a U-Cut tree farm to pick out our Christmas Tree. Taryn searched out “an experience” for us. It was a super cute place with cider, a bon-fire, and a train for the kids. (Lots of Instagramming going on).  Molly wasn’t really into it this year. She did like the cider though. No “Choo Choo” for her. Too scary…not a good sign for any future Disney plans.

It’s officially the start of the merriest time of year….

P.S. Heidi calls them “never green trees.”

Happy Thanksgiving

A nice quiet Thanksgiving with those I am so thankful for....

(the cute turkey next door)

{Seven}

Kyla you are 7!

Seven seems old. 

I can remember being seven.

You are so sweet. The sweetest. 

You care about others.

You are very funny and make us laugh every day.

The stories you make up are adorable.

You are concerned and curious.

You love Jesus.

Your missing tooth is the cutest.

The other one will come out soon. 

You are our girl.

We love you.

Happy Birthday! 

We love you SOOOOO much!

Weekend Celebrations

 Kyla turns 7 on Wednesday! So this weekend was full of birthday celebrations. This year's theme...GYMNASTICS (more specifically McKenna and Shooting Star Gymnastics). She and her little friends had a great time and we capped off the weekend celebrating with all the family. So fun to celebrate YOU Kyla!

{Summer} Heidi

Just looking through some pics from the year and came across these ones of Heidi being Heidi this summer. I love these. In her get up just hanging out in the back yard posing.

To Keep

My kids are ALWAYS drawing and creating. I love all their little creations but saving them all would be crazy. Heidi has really been into drawing books lately. She will work on them for hours. She got one at the library yesterday and has been working on it all morning! I love these... defiantly to keep.

Back to the Blog

I haven't been blogging. I haven't really been taking any pictures lately either (except for my mom challenge photos and pictures of other people's families). Yesterday was the last day of the mom challenge...Molly took this photo. Cookie in one hand and remote in the other.

Hoping to have some fun posts coming up with Kyla's birthday and Thanksgiving. Stay tuned....will be blogging more (hopefully).

Mom Challenge Photos...

It's been fun. But they are all starting to seem the same to me. And Kyla is never home to be in a picture. :) 7 more days to go. Here are a few more from the last 13 days.