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:

We took our 3 little monkeys to the...

ZOO!

We went to the Kansas City Zoo this weekend.  I havent been since I was pregnant with Brylie!  We had the perfect weather for it.  We brought the wagon, so two kids could always have a ride.  Here is a collage of some of the animals that we saw.  I think Jaren liked it the best.  We would show him the animals and he would say, "pet, pet, pet".  He just wanted to get in there and pet all the animals.  Brylie really wanted to see the Sea Lion show.  So we did that, and now the Sea Lion is Brylie and Kaden's favorite animal! 

On Sunday, Kaden gave her first talk in Primary.  She told the story of Daniel and the Lions Den.  She says she "felt weird inside" when she was done.  She read her whole talk with little help from mommy, and we just wrote it the night before!  She has a new BFF that lives down the street and is in her primary class.  Life couldnt get much better for her!

Also, I started volunteering in the Library at Brylie's school.  I got to see her in the hall the first day.  She is so excited to have me there and I really miss working at the library in Maryville, so I am happy to come and help out for a while.

My one hard class at school is starting to get busy.  I have a huge research paper and two presentations that I have to be busy working on.  I am nervous about all 3 of these tasks....but hey I just need a C in the class to graduate, so that shouldnt be too hard!!  My other classes are really easy and I just have busy work to do, but its all stuff that I have already learned in my other classes.

We are halfway through our pregnancy now.  We just have the belly-growing part left now!  Thank you everyone for your prayers for our baby.  We did get told that she might have a heart defect, but today we did a higher level ultrasound and found out that her heart is completely healthy!  It was a long 5 days, waiting to know for sure.  We are so thankful that Heavenly Father has blessed our little baby to be healthy.....so far :)

This week we have a schedule full of girl scouts, gymnastics, friends coming over to play after school, and spirit week at school. It should be a great one!

Baby Girl Dombek

It seems like I am just getting bigger and bigger these days.  We have made it half way since I am 20 weeks!  I will have to take another picture soon.

Our Baby has become very active and I can feel her moving around in there now.  I feel her the most at night when I finally get to lay down and relax.  Greg has gotten to feel her move already too!  She is a strong kicker!  Greg is finally excited to be having a daughter.  He has been so involved and supportive in my pregnancy every step of the way.  This is his first time getting to experience every little pregnancy detail, as circumstances didnt allow him to be that involved with his sons birth.  I am so greatful to have a partner that has been there for me (I didnt really have that my last two pregnancies either). 

We have our "boppy" pillow still out from Jaren and the girls use it for their baby dolls.  I was telling Greg that we are going to need a new cover for it since its blue, and we need pink!  I told him we will have to put that on our wish list and let people know.

Well Greg went to Babies R Us and picked out a pink cover with flowers on it.  It was the cutest thing ever.  That was our first purchase for the new baby, and he went and did it without me expecting him to.  He also got us a new diaper bag!  Why is that the cutest thing ever, to see your husband baby shopping, or holding a baby?

Next week we are going for our ultrasound here in KC at our new doctors office.  I am hoping that they have the 3D ultrasound!  We will get to check on all of babies body parts :)

We think we have her name picked out, but its not 100% sure yet, so I wont post it until we have finalized that decision.