Saturday, November 7, 2009

Fall Leaves

A couple of weeks ago Brenner went out in the back yard to rake up leaves so he could jump into them. As you can see, we don't have a lot of leaves at our house.

So finally this week we went to our friends house to play in the leaves. They have a lot of leaves. I took super cute pics of the kids which I will post after I do a little editing.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

our 1st Parent Teacher Conference

We got to go to Brenner's Parent/Teacher Conference yesterday. He's is doing great in class! He got on the Citizenship and Academic Honor roll. His teacher said he is the best reader in his class!!! She said he has also made huge improvements in making friends (and not being shy). Way to go, Brenner!!!


Sunday, November 1, 2009

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from the GI Joe guys, I guess!

(I don't know what Joren is doing)

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Kinderbear

Meet Kinderbear... he is Brenner's class bear. The kids in his class get to take turns taking him home for the week. They bring him home in his cute little backpack. He has different clothes to wear. They get to do fun activities with him and write in his scrapbook about the activities. Brenner was so excited for his week. I signed him up for the week of Halloween because I thought that would be fun.
Kinderbear got to help us carve pumpkins.
Kinderbear got to play in the first snowfall of the year.
Kinderbear (dressed like Santa) got to help Brenner with his homework.
Brenner insisted on sleeping with Kinderbear in a sleeping bag in the family room every night.
Kinderbear got to dress up in his halloween costume (thanks Sam) and go to the Halloween reading time at the library.
Brenner gets to take Kinderbear back tomorrow for his Halloween party at school. He is sad he doesn't get to take Kinderbear trick or treating with him but Mrs. McKenna gets to take him home on the weekends (I'll bet she takes him trick or treating:)

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

First Snow

When I saw the sprinkling of snow on the ground this morning, I was hoping the kids wouldn't notice (I just wasn't sure I was ready to have snow gear all over my house). But, they noticed:)
They love playing on the playground in the snow... and coming inside for hot chocolate 5 minutes later.
Terek had a conflict of interest.... He HATES Clothes, but he LOVES to be outside!!! So all day I had to deal with him screaming because I wouldn't let him go outside with his brothers. After school some of the neighbor kids went outside to build snowmen, so I caved and got Terek all dressed up. He did not like being all dressed up in his gear and he couldn't even move!
Brenner played outside forever with his friends...

They tried to build a snowman, but gave up and had more fun kicking it instead... so many more fun winter days to come!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Pumpkins

a few weeks ago we went to the pumpkin patch with Shellie and Legacy.
My rule has always been that they can't get a pumpkin that they can't pick up themselves.
Brenner is getting pretty tough and got a pretty big pumpkin.
He's just a cute little pumpkin:)
(side story.... Shellie took all of our pictures for us... because I forgot my camera. You see, I love my SLR, but it is big, so I don't like to carry it around. I have always had small camera that I can carry in my purse. I or one of the kids broke my little camera, so I have been doing without for awhile. Well, my sweet hubby spent his hard-earned money to buy me a cute pink camera so I don't miss any of these memorable moments any more!)
The rest of the story... we forgot to get a pumpkin for Tagg. So, Brenner insisted that we had back to the pumpkin patch after school last week to get Tagg a pumpkin. I don't know if Tagg could pick this pumpkin up by himself, but it was the smallest one we can find. Brenner says he's going to help Tagg carve it... I bet Tagg would love to eat it:)

Friday, October 23, 2009

Soccer

It's going to be weird to not have a soccer game tomorrow.
Brenner had a lot of fun playing soccer this fall. It was fun to have Cami as his coach and his friends Ella and McKay on the team.
He isn't super agressive and spent more time chewing on his shirt, but he still had fun.
We had nice weather for most of the games... except the one that grandma came to!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Cute little booger boy!

Cute little booger boy is 14 months old today. Boy does he have quite the personality! He loves what he loves and totally wants what he wants!

For instance, he would not let go of that umbrella to save his life. He also loves to play with brooms.
He loves books and especially this elmo book. He will crawl across the house to bring you the book to read to him.
He hates clothes!!! He's really not loving all of these long-sleeved shirts and he's constantly trying to take them off. He also takes off his shoes and socks. However, he spends a large portion of his day standing at the door screaming to go outside.... and I mean screaming.

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And that boy loves to dance!!! This was a rare occasion catching him dancing with all limbs... usually he just has one hand going!!!

He isn't walking yet and has no desire to walk. But he can stand up all by himself to body slam us.

We love you big T!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Mark your Calendar for the.....

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Story of my life

Ryan brought this to me this morning and said, "this is the story of your life." I have to agree... although I'd probably forget what it was I was doing in the first place.