New Pictures

Here is a picture of the kids lying on the floor watching tv. I love this picture.

This is the best one I could get of JA in this outfit, but I call her sporty spice. She just loves that jacket and wears it with everything and the shoes. So cute.

Grumpy soccer player

Here are the pumkins we carved.

Here they are lit up without the flash, sorry it is a little blurry. We really need a new digital camera.

And just in case you have never seen IA at her finest. 3 has been a very emotional age for her.

Here is a picture of JA's shiner, although it is sort of fading by now.

If you look closely, you can see the bruise on JA's forehead. But it's a great shot of the girls.

Stay tuned for halloween pictures.

Shiner #2

So I don't have a picture yet but JA has another shiner. She got it at the sitter's last friday and it is in the exact spot the other one was in. So much so that my mom thought it was the same one from the picture.
In between the 2 shiners, she fell and got a goose egg on her forehead. That one was barely gone before the fall last week. I am not sure yet if she is just klutsy or adventurous.
I will try to post a picture later.

Pumpkin Patch

We had a very busy last weekend. The weather was great and we took full advantage of it. Saturday, after CA's 8 am soccer game (yes it was early and it was frosty!!), we headed to the zoo. It was a great day at the zoo. Cold and sunny, the animals were very active and we got to see the new baby elephant. It was super cute. I forgot my camera though, maybe next time. Then the girls stayed at Nana's and we got to have the rest of the day with CA. Now that he is 5 1/2, daddy says he can watch Empire Strikes Back. However, he got a little scared when Luke got to the swamp to search for Yoda so he didn't get very far in it but I am sure he will be wanting to try it again sometime soon.
Sunday, we went to the pumpkin patch. Again it was beautiful weather and the kids had a lot of fun. Here are some pics:
No this isn't the pumpkin patch or is it CA's halloween costume, it's just him getting ready to go work in the yard with daddy. This was after the zoo on saturday.

Here we are at Heiser Farms. We had a great time and all the kids loved riding the toy tractors.






Taking a hay ride back from the pumpkin patch



The girls peeking at each other.

I guess this is a pumpkin pig.

Picking the pumpkins.

Shiner

JA received her first shiner this weekend, falling again keyboard tray of our computer desk. She's no worse for the wear though. The picture doesn't quite do it justice.

Kindergarten

I know we are three weeks into it but here are some pictures from the first day. I didn't get a shot of him at school at his desk though. I should have done that because now he doesn't even want us walking him into school, we just drop him off.

I don't remember why we had him growl but he seemed to enjoy it.

Along with Kindergarten, he has started soccer. I never knew it would be so involved for 5 year old. Practices 2 days a week and games on saturday. Lucky me and the girls get to take him every tuesday and thursday. Here are some pictures of his first game. If I had had my video camera you could see him running around acting like a shark while chasing the ball. (His team name is the Sharks)

Hanging out at the goal.

Running after the ball (he is number 5)

And more running after the ball.

A few more shots. JA felt a little left out that her brother and sister got new clothes and not her so she had to try on her brothers new shirt.

IA finally decided to put her princess stuff on. I think she looks like a cross between a princess and a 60's housewife.

Princess birthday

Before I can show talk about the first day of kindergarten, I suppose I should catch up on IA's 3rd birthday. We had lots of fun with grandpa here and Cousin C stuck around an extra week so he was able to come to the party.
First, I set the bar a little high with CA's pirate cake so here is IA's cake. She asked for a princess theme and then when we went to get stuff for the party she wanted Ariel so I had to change things a little and add water and a beach scene to the castle. Still, I think it turned out pretty well.




Grandpa decided to dye his beard pink for the occasion but JA wasn't quite sure what to think of it. This was one of the few moments she actually let him pick her up while it was pink.

Here is our party girl getting ready to open her presents.

She wasn't cooperating very well putting on her new stuff, so Cousin C decided to put it on. I warned him it would show up in the blog!

Here she is with her new bike.

Here she is having help blow out her candles.

Catch Up

We have had a busy couple of weeks with AA's sister and son here from Alaska. Cousin C ended up being here for 3 weeks and the kids loved him. CA also had soccer camp and we headed south to Papa's house to canoe, play in their pool and go to Wildlife Safari. Here are some pics:

The only pictures I got of CA at camp were of his back but at least this is an action shot.

Here you can see the adoration of JA on Cousin C. He was really good with her.

Here we are at Safari Sam's which is a lot of fun and exhausting for everyone climbing through the gigantic jungle gym.

Here we are at Wildlife Safari. If you have never been and have small kids, you should go. They had such a great time. The animals were really active when we were there. It was fun as you can see from JA practically trying to climb out the window.

This giraffe (and one not pictured) were so close to the car you could touch them.

In the bear section, you have to have your windows up which makes sense considering how close they are.

Finally, a camel ride for CA and I.

After all this, grandpa came up from Utah for IA's 3rd birthday. I will post pictures of that later.