Mckiela Visits NY

This past Monday my beautiful niece flew in from Utah to spend Thanksgiving with our family. Bean and I picked her up from the airport. It was absolutely wonderful to see her! I love her so so much! She is a sweetheart. When we got home it was the cutest thing ever. Chief ran up to her and jumped into her arms and just held on to her. The whole time he kept going up to Kiley and saying, "I love you Kiley." It was so sweet. I had no idea that he had such a special bond with her. My mom sent Kiley and Bean matching pajama's. It was so kind of her. The girls immediately got into them and spent so much time lounging around in them. I love my mom and these darling girls. After we gave hugs and got beds made we headed to Wegman's! Of course the girls wore their brand new pj's. It's going to be a fun week!

Walmart

When we walked into Walmart, Toad hopped on the motorized cart and was all ready to start driving it around.

Bean Babysits

Bean went on her 1st "real" babysitting job. She loved it! She babysat the Dayton's children and the Haws children. She actually team babysat with her friend Ella. They watched 5 children for a few hours while the parents went to the movie. When I called to check on her she told me they had just got done reading to the children and putting them to bed. She also told me that had swept the kitchen floor and took the garbage out. I was proud of these two girls! Bean was so excited to go. She spent the day collecting items in her "babysitting kit" she also printed off some coloring sheets to take along with her. She had another babysitting job this past weekend and has another one set up for this upcoming weekend. She is loving earning a little cash. Oh how I love Bean. She is growing up so fast and beautifully. 

Tough Mudder

Ladies Curls are a few of my favorite things. 

She loves this headband and puts it on every day! Oh how I love her. 

Toad

The Hungry Caterpillar is one of Toad's favorite books. He loves to pretend to gobble up all the food on this page. He can be heard saying, "Yummy, yummy." It is the cutest thing ever! Whenever there is food in a book he pretends to grab it and say, "Want some? Is it nummy?" He also pretends to grab me a cookie from the book, "Give a Mouse a Cookie." I want to gobble this boy up!

Ella and Lady

Lady loves loves loves Ella. Often times in Sacrament meeting you can hear Lady call Ella's name out. A few weeks back they were snuggling on the couch and Lady fell asleep on her. 

Chief is an Artist

I was impressed with Chief's Spiderman. He is kind of my favorite. Both Chief and Spiderman. 

Fall

This Fall has been absolutely beautiful and glorious!

Lots of days with no shoes or pants for that matter. 

At parent teacher conferences I saw this pumpkin hanging on the wall. Chief is thankful for his treehouse. I love Chief! He has spent many of afternoons make believing in it. 

Random

Me and My Girl.

Trip to Shriner's Hospital to get more X-Rays on Bean's back. Toad and Lady love this frog despite the looks on their faces.

Mandatory trip Chick-Fil-A

Bowling for Miss Ella's birthday. 

Go North!

Heading to the game to watch Noah play volleyball! 

Noah's Eagle Project

Jer has been working really hard with Noah on his Eagle Scout project. Here the youth are at the cemetery on Halloween taking pictures of headstones to upload to Family Search. We have an amazing group of youth!

Girls Night

We said goodbye to the Christensen family. So sad to see people move. There children came over and hung out while their parents packed the house up. They made pizza and cookies and played "Just Dance." We will miss the Christensen family.

Portrait of Mrs. Brown

Nearly every day Chief comes to me and tells me that he has drawn a picture to give to his kindergarten teacher. This was Tuesday's drawing. A portrait of Mrs. Brown

Goose has a doorbell

In the 15 years that I have been a mother this is a first....While tidying up this a.m. I noticed that Goose installed a doorbell outside his bedroom door. Not sure when installation happened. I seriously died of laughter. (note: it does not work as of yet)

Upon further investigation I entered his "pad" to find that he went ahead and decorated his room. He hung some scout accesories to his closet doors. In fact, I noticed that he even stapled a few. :)

In his closet he attached a birthday card that Grandma and Grandpa "Tractor" gave him along with a Temple picture and some other old medals and his arrow of light. 

I love this boy so much. He has my heart. 

Loader

Sometimes Toad flushes loaders down the toilet. 

Looks like he's getting wax rings for Christmas. 

Coke

Sometimes I escape to the garage gym and have a beverage.