Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween! I love Halloween it's so fun to get the costums made and see what our family is going to be, dressing up, and gong trick or treating. This year Thea asked to be a Indian so I jumped on that. I thought the boy and Corey would be Cow boys and the girls could be Indians, but when Donovan saw a picure of and indian boy with a head dress he was set on that.

Logan is a cow boy. He wants to be a farmer every day and being a cow boy was heaven for him. My mom had a leather vest and the start of leather chaps that her borther had as a kid. I so Logan and I fitted them and then he helped me sew them. He loves loves loves it and I'm sure he will live in it for the next few weeks.

 Luckly we had a boy Indian coustum that my Grandma Geroge made for one of her boys and had passed on to my mom who passed it on to me. It fit him just right and he loved it one night h was a mountan man and the next he was an Indian.

 

 

 Mine Thea and Anna's costom I made and all trunded out really cute. Thea Loves hers and really love having a fether in her hair.

 Getting ready to go trick or treating

 Anna my little Indian Princess

 

 Anna's dress is by far my favroit. and she loves to spin around in it and watch it twrell around her

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weekend Plans

 This weekend like most weekends was a busy one. I was up at 6 with the kids, darn Anna wakes up at 6 am every day even weekend, she doesn't' know that weekends are for sleeping in. The kids and I did some early morning cleaning and had cold cereal, which is for Sat only at our house the kids love the treat and I love not having to cook for one day in the morning. at 10 our baby sitter came over and Corey and I left to go mini van shopping. I loved my big SUV but it was time to triad it in for a van with better mpg. I took us 5 hours to find and get a van. it's nice enough for a van not my favorite car but it will work for out family. We spent a small fortune on our great babysitter, but it was worth it not to have to drag the kids with us for 5 hours. Then we took the kids in our new van, that they love and think is so cool, to go to the pumpkin patch. We had lots of fun finding pumpkins Thea got the smallest one she could find while the boys found the biggest ones they could carry. I found a cute blue one and hopefully tonight we can carve them up.

Life Keeps Me Busy

 

 This month we have been busy. Busy with life and all that comes with a house full of kids. Thea has girls on the run 2 days a week, This is her sport running! She is training to run a 5k! She LOVES it she love the coaches and the girls on her team and loves running. At the end of Nov she will run her race 3.5 miles, after training for 12 weeks. I have to say I am impressed I don't really get running but she love love loves it. I can't wait to share about her race. We go to the library once a week for getting books and then the little one and I go for story time a one or twice a week, we have play dates and School for Thea, Donovan and preschool for Logan. so that is 3 drop off and pick ups most days. Thea and I have activity days a few times a month this is the 8-11 girls activity for our church. I am one of 4 leaders I am loving it and Thea loves going. I have PTO( parent group at the kids school) board meetings and meeting for every one meeting with different groups and meetings with the principle... so lots of meeting. But I am loving being the PTO president and being so involved in the school. I also have a few different woman groups from church or with friends for talking about faith to talking about being a mom to crafts, that I go to each month. Corey works each day, is a scout leader for the 11 boys at church once a week and is busy with hunting this month to. Our life is full and busy but I am loving being a mom of busy kids and having lots of friend and activity's of my own. Some how this month we found the time between running off to some activity and keeping house to do some canning. I canned 4lb of bean. Black, kidney and white bean, I use them so much for cooking but I don't want to pay $1.50 per can and dry bean are cheap so I just can them up so they are ready when I need them.

 I also canned Plums for the first time. A friend of mine had a 5 gallon bucket full and wasn't going to use them so she gave them to me. I made plum jam and plum syrup both are so good! I ended up with 23 jar from the plums.

Another friend gave me 3 huge bags of apples, that she had got from her in laws. So far I have canned about 1/3 of bag of apples and made 15 jars of applesauce, it should have been 17 but the boy ate a whole bunch right as I made it. I am going to do more applesauce some pie filling and some apple butter. Hopefully this week I can get it all done, fingers crossed. I love canning and leaning how to make my own things for so much cheaper.

Pumpkin problems

Donovan's class went to a farm to learn about the life cycles of pumpkins on Friday. He learned all about how pumpkins grow and want to plant some next year. He also go to bring a pumpkin home. But poor guy tripped coming out of the bus and drop his pumkin. He handled it really well just told his teacher his mom knows how to make pumpkin pie so he needed to bring his pumpkin peaces home...his teacher let ,thankfully so I didn't have to get it to it with her again, any way the boys pulled all the seeds and gross stuff out and then we cooked it , and Donovan and I made pie mix. Some went in the freezer for pie at thanksgiving and some made pumpkin French toast but most went to make pumpkin almond muffins. Mmmmm..... The kids love muffins for breakfast or snacks or with lunch so I always make a huge batch and freeze most of them. Donovan loved that he could use his pumpkin for muffins. I think we might buy one more just for muffins. :)

Anna's Art

Anna has found coloring, and she loves it coloring paper, herself, my wall.... Ugh. She loves to show you what she did and if you don't say its pretty she keeps showing until she get the praise she wants...silly girl...i hope she out grown the wall and self art part of coloring