Welcome to our World

This girl is a hoot at the orthodontist! And she really likes to help bake for obvious reasons. M still loves my dad and D still loves football!  A nice gentleman told me he thought my boy really understood the game and complimented him so nicely. The children have had me going to the library a lot lately -- definitely reading more with the cooler, darker evenings. M and I went to a Laura Ingalls Wilder birthday party and had a great time.  Pictured here is M in front of Affolter Cabin, built in 1860. We got to babysit 2 members of our ward while their parents were out of town for the weekend.  I could totally have 6 kids if they were that well behaved! Playing at the park and celebrating M's half birthday with owl cupcakes. A dragon M made during hardworking. I absolutely love watching K play volleyball! Homemade pumpkin spice play dough kept my kids entertained for days! And they behave so well when we have the missionaries over f...

Girl Scout Day at a new pumpkin patch led us to explore a new place and come home with some great produce!  Perhaps the best part was trying to stack as much as we could in the wagon for a flat fee. Our lovely renters moved to TN so we spent a couple weeks fixing up the old house to rent out to a cute newlywed couple from KS.  New paint, new carpet, and we got to enjoy the leaves while Hubby and the electrician tried to fix a very pesky ceiling fan. Our maple is my favorite at our new house and I like the way our Ash looked out the window, especially with K's pumpkin she made at Activity Days.  Her leader is doing such a good job!

Since M's new school doesn't do school picture day, I hired a good friend of ours to take portraits of the children for us and we ended up with some family photos as well, even though my brain was still sore from a migraine a couple days before.  The following should give you a great idea of what it was like to try to get those 8x10 children's portraits on my wall.  lol. This was when she had Katie say poop in her Mickey Mouse voice to get N to laugh.