Talented Kaden

The 2nd grade put on a musical concert called:

"This is MY Country" in song

They sang lots of cute patriotic songs. 

They honored our soldiers and veterans. 

The program listed all the childrens relatives that were in the service.

Kaden honored her Grandpa Scott and her Uncle Ryan.

Kaden has been singing these songs at home for weeks and was so excited to get to perform them for us.  The Platte County 2nd graders did a great job!

Going Private

I think its that time again.  I have decided to make my blog private so that we can post more details about our family, especially with the new baby coming.  I just want to be safe and not announce to the whole world that we have a newborn living here (in a few months anyways). 
Anyone who reads my blog currently is invited to keep reading it.  Just push the comment button on this post and type me your email address, that will add you to my "private list".  No one else will see your email because I have to read all postings before they are published, and I wont publish that.

Thanks everyone, I look forward to lots of future blogging!

Happy Halloween!

We are done trick-or-treating and its not even bed time yet!  The girls were shy when it came to trick-or-treating.  We went around the block and they wanted to be done.  They both filled their buckets though.  It was windy and starting to get cold.  Here are some pics of:

Princess Tiana and a cute witch!

                                                    

Picture Preview

We got our family picture taken for our holiday cards this year.  I wanted to do it early since I am only getting bigger!  This is one of the pictures of the kids, we got a REALLY cute family picture taken, but you will recieve that in the mail with our Christmas card.    We also got our pictures taken early so that hopefully I will get them sent out by the time it is Christmas.  Since I am graduating in December, I might be a little busy with research papers, presentations, and finals!

Fall Fun

Another fun weekend has come to an end.  We went on a hayride, and roasted hot dogs and smores around the camp fire at gma & gpas farm.  It was really fun.  The kids had a blast running on the tops of the hay bails and riding on the four-wheelers. 

We also went to chuck e. cheese. (I think we should buy stock in the place since we are there so often.)  Kaden had a friend spend the night, so we wanted to take her to do something fun.  We won over 900 tickets this time and got lots of prizes!

We had a great weekend.  It is always awesome to spend the whole weekend together as a family.  We have been blessed to have all that we have!

Birthday Notice

Happy 25th Birthday (again)

MOM!!!

I know, this is a day late now!  But my mom celebrated her birthday yesterday and is another year wiser.  Although she still claims to only be turning 25.  My kids no longer believe that story since their mom is older then their grandma now! 
I hope you had the best birthday ever! 

We Love you,

Heather, Greg, Kaden,

Brylie, Jaren and Ellie

Faulkner's

This weekend we went to Faulkner's Pumpkin Farm in Kansas City.  I looked online for a pumpkin patch that also had lots of fun kids activities and this is where we decided to go!  First of all, I cant remember a time ever picking out my pumpkin and sweating!  I thought we were in AZ again!  It was a hot afternoon in October for once.  Good thing they had fresh lemonade for us to enjoy.

The kids had lots of fun.  They fed animals in a petting zoo, jumped in a bouncy house, went on a train ride, and a hayride, went through a corn maze, milked a pretend cow, had duck water races, climbed through a caterpillar, played on a playground, and did other activities.  We didnt even get to do everything because after a few hours we were all hot and tired.  Everyone fell asleep in the car on the way home except for the driver!

Then for family night last night, we carved our pumpkins.  The girls drew their jack-o-lantern faces on and we helped them cut them out.  Brylie, my wild, not afraid of anything kid, really did not like touching the "pumpkin guts"  she would not use her hands, she would only use a spoon, and she ended up having everyone help her with hers.  Kaden on the other hand liked helping everyone clean out their pumpkins.

I think the kids are getting excited about Halloween.  Kaden is going to be a "cute witch" this year and Brylie is going to be Princess Tiana from The Princess and the Frog.  She has been waiting since last year to be Tiana!

 Our finished projects: