Our Tree

This year because we are moving the day after Christmas we decided not to hassle with a big tree. So we found this 2 ft. tree and bought it so we could still have a tree to put our presents under and a easy clean up for the next day. It didn't take us long to decorate but the kids loved doing it. They are so excited for Christmas and then the move it will be a full weekend. We hope everyone has a great Christmas!

The tree seems really small once the kids are sitting in front of it, it just disappears behind them!

Our Halloween!

I know I am late on this but better late than never at all! We had a very fun Halloween weekend we first started off with a party at James' work, the kids were so excited to get to go into Dad's work. He works for Intel and it is a factory so kids are not allowed inside so the kids never got to see where Dad went to work everyday. It was a fun evening of games and a spook alley that the kids loved. This night Olivia went as Super Girl, Will was Batman, and Madalynn was Super Girl also.

On Halloween night we went Trick-or-Treating in our neighborhood and it was so crowded the houses are so close together so it is a place where people like to drive in to Trick-or-Treat at. We had a ton of fun and saw numerous friends from school as we walked around. For this night Olivia decided to be a witch she loved being able to switch since we already had both of Olivia's costumes she decided to switch it up.

It was very fun to see the kids come home and spread their candy out to see what they got and it brought back so many memories of my Halloween nights as a child spreading out my candy and trying to trade with my siblings for something I liked that they had. this was a fun thing that we did every Halloween and I love the memories of those nights

After everything was all done we let the kids choose some pieces for them to eat and then collected all the candy to put away for the days to come. This is what we ended up with....

WAY TOO MUCH! I guess when there are 3 kids getting candy it does add up, the good thing is when we put it up it is kind of out of sight out of mind. If they ask we let them choose some but we tend to not eat a lot of candy around our house, we still have over 2 and a half of those bags left so we are set for a long time. :o) We hope everyone had a great Halloween!

She's Legal........

To Babysit! In the state of Oregon 10 years old is the legal age to babysit. I can't believe she is growing up so fast, she is so fun, and caring of her little brother and sister. She really enjoys school, she struggles with certain subjects but very rarely do you see her not excited about going to school and what is going on in class. This year she has started going to a dance class a lady in our ward teaches and she comes home after every class so excited about what she learned that day. She is very excited for the Christmas recital for dance so we can see what she is learning.

Olivia is excited to get the responsibility of babysitting but a little nervous about it too, we are going to start out slow and help her get confident in what she is doing. My friend here told me she lets her kids babysit at home until they turn 12 and then they can babysit for others, I like this idea so we have decided to do this. We are so proud of her and I love the mother/daughter activities we are enjoying together.

Happy Birthday Olivia!
We Love You

My Baby Is 3!

I can't believe my little Madalynn is 3 today, it seems like just yesterday we were in Colorado and she was a baby. These last few months she has really blossomed and has quite the personality! She is so fun and a little trying at times but the fun and happy out weigh that.

This was Madalynn this morning right before church she was so excited to go to nursery on her birthday. Our camera is not the greatest at times and this picture is so cute I wish it had come out better. Anyway, Happy Birthday Madalynn! We love you!

Back To School!

This past week, our kids started school again! Olivia is now in the 4th grade and she loves her teacher and the friends she has in class. Here she is before leaving for school.

Will is now in the 1st grade and is so excited to be going to full day school. He is very happy to be riding the bus both to and from school with Olivia. Here he is before going to school.


Madalynn in the past few months has really gotten her personality and she would not be left out for pictures, and once the kids were dropped off she was not happy they were gone. She kept asking us if we were going to get Olivia and Will. She was very cute about it.

The morning was chilly so the kids had to put coats on before going, I was surprised I don't think I have had a cold 1st day of school before.

Coming home on the bus the 1st day some how Will got on the wrong bus, and he was fine he didn't care but Olivia got emotional because we told her to keep her eyes open for Will and she felt it was her fault. We quickly reassured her it wasn't her fault and there was just a mix up. She is fine now and Will gets on the right bus now.

I know it has been awhile since I last blogged, our computer broke so I didn't have Internet for a couple months so i will blog about our summer in the next weeks!

A Hair Raising New Park!

This picture explains the title! Madalynn was the hit of the slide, everyone thought her hair was so cool. It was a tall slide so she picked up a lot of static electricity as she slid down! And because her hair is still baby fine it stuck up everywhere. :)

This is immediately after the 1st picture so the static stayed as long as she was on the slide it was very funny!

Olivia loved this spinning toy and you can see the circle behind her that was a spinning toy too that they both loved. The spinning toy behind takes a lot of arm muscle that my kids don't seem to have a lot of yet. But we will keep going back to help build muscles.

Will loved the climbing things and there were a lot of them to play on, he also liked the spinning toys.

At the same park there was a water fountain that shot up out of the ground at different intervals. Will & Olivia loved getting as wet as they could, Madalynn however loved seeing the water shoot up but ran away every time there was a chance she could get wet. We loved finding this new park, we will go there a lot this summer.

New Glasses!

I can't believe it but it has been just over a year since Olivia got glasses so it was time to have her eyes checked again. We went and her eyes have gotten worse so we needed new glasses. The doctor said in a year or two if her eyes are still getting worse we might want to consider hard contacts to stop her eyes from getting any worse. Until I married James(he has hard contacts) I didn't realize your eye sight doesn't get any worse when you wear hard contacts. It seems weird to think I have a daughter that could be wearing contacts in a year or two.

Here she is in her old pair, she loved the purple but was excited to get a new pair.


And here she is in her new pair the shape is a little different but they look similar, the color is different too. These are black on the outside and on the inside it is a light purple/pink color, and on they have tiny rhinestones on the sides and a few on the top.(not sure if you can see them in the picture)

My little girl is getting bigger and so grown up looking! I am so happy she is my daughter.