Cookie Monster...Fairy.....Puppy!!!

Kymberly was lucky enough to end up with two costumes and she was just so cute in both that we decided to let her be both. She started the day off as out little Cookie Monster and by lunch was really good at pointing at the cookies on the front and saying "ookie"Kathryn wanted to be a fairy after having attended a fairy birthday party. She told me that I needed to take her picture with her standing just like this! I guess that fairies stand like this everyday....all day! She was just so cute!
Kymberly ended up the day as a cute puppy for our ward trunk or treat party. She was tired so this was the best picture that she would give me.

Alex for Halloween

Alex tells me that he wants to be a headless horseman so after consultation with some other great minds we finally figure out how to make that happen. Alex reminds me the morning of the 31st that "Mom I have to have a horse" so I manage to find a horse that he can wear yet he tells me that the horse is too cute. He let me take a picture with it, yet I was susposed to delete it.

Then had to take a picture of him WITHOUT the cute horse.

This is how we made it so he could see behind it all. It was black spider web lace that we used to make the V neck on the outfit. He could not give up the vampire teeth sucker while I was taking the pictures....I told him that it looked like a binky
The idea to use cardboard to made the sholders for the horseman was an AWESOME idea and we found the best cardboard thanks to Grandpa Michael!
Luckily even though it was too cute for the headless horseman Kymberly thinks that it is the bestest thing ever and loves to wear it and dance with it.

Soccer Fun

Kymberly was playing with one of the soccer balls and the coaches youngest daughter decided that she did not want her to play anymore and so took it away. Kymberly is actually pretty good at dribbling the ball....not so good and remembering that you do not use your hands in soccer. I guess that we have a little while to work on that one though.
Alex is warming up for a game in this one. Often I would forget to take a picture during the game as I was having to make sure that Kymberly was staying off the field as she wants to be right out there with the big kids and play not just watch.

Kathryn loved finally being able to be old enough to play soccer this year. She did take a hit to the stomach once this season and came to the side lines to cry and was telling me that she was going to wait a little while and then go back in the game. I told her that there were only about 2 minutes left in the game if she wanted to play. The tears quickly dried up and out she went. I think that she was overly stressed about running correctly as she had heard Alex's coach talk about running on the "balls" of your feet and so I often would watch her run with such a look of concentration while she was way behind the rest of the kids. Yet I think that she had fun and I know that she loved getting the medal at the end of the season.

Cub Scout Alex

Alex had do help prepare and cook an outdoor meal for Cub Scouts. With a little encouragement from me we decided to do tin foil dinners. We borrowed the portable fire pit from Grandpa Bud and so we were able to just sit out and enjoy end evening while we waited for it to cook. Alex loved this picture of the "arrow" flame.

Kathryn just being cute!

Alex and Kathryn watching the flames and the steam coming out of the dinners.

Parker our neighbors son came by to show us the nights catch from the pond. They would have thrown the smaller one back but the silly fish swallowed the hook. Wayne and Alex with the help of Kathryn looking on check to see if they are FINALLY done...

My little ones

This is picture was taken a while ago, but I loved it and wanted to get a picture on here that showed Alex as well as the girls. I loved how this picture had turned out. Thanks Amy!

Soccer Mom

Well I guess that I am a little out of it. Alex is now in his third or fourth season of fall soccer and Kathryn is LOVING the fact that she is FINALLY old enough to be "in the game" and it has only just occured to me that I am a "Soccer Mom". I had to laugh at the fact that I had not come to realize that status change a few years ago. I will add pictures when I am able to take some. First game was tonight and I spent most of the time trying to keep Kymberly off the field...she wants to be out there too. She loves to kick the ball, pick up the ball and sit on the ball and run away from me.

Joyce - Cancer

Well I am now a brest cancer advocate for my mother in law. Joyce just found out that she has Breast Cancer. Her tumor is already 6cm in size so she is at a stage II or III. Exactly what stage she has will not be identified until we get more test results. We met with the surgeon yesterday and have the next group of tests on Monday to get more results. I am suddenly learning a lot about cancer and learning how much I did not know.

Cute Kymberly

Kymberly just looked SO cute that I had to take a picture of her....ok several pictures of her. but will only post the cutest ones.

She is growing up so fast! She will start going to nursery in just over two weeks.

Day One of Head Start

Kathryn started Head Start today. She looked so little sitting in the bus this morning, yet seemed to do just fine. She came home telling me that it was her "funest day ever"! She loved it and so wants to go back "right now" yet has resigned herself to the fact that she can not go back until tomorrow morning.