Our Annual Santa Visit

The kids were excited to go see Santa. Maddox got a little sad, but then was fine. He wasn't to sure about what was going on. Sadie told Santa that she wanted a leapster (she already has one...she couldn't figure out what she wanted), Savanna told him that she wanted her very own calculator. He asked me if he heard her right. Yep that's what she wants. She keeps telling me that. I think Santa might have something else in mind for them though.....DISNEYLAND. I haven't been asking the kids alot about what they want Santa to bring them because we want to surprise them with Disneyland this year. We are going with most of my family. Its going to be fun to experience Disneyland around Christmas time, I've always wanted to do it. It's hard to keep it a secret from the kids though, because I want to get them excited about it.

Halloween/Fall Fun!

We went to Schnepf Farms the other night and had so much fun. The kids loved it, especially Savanna. I didn't realize they had so many things to do there. We rode the rides, went to the petting zoo, and played in the pumpkin patch. It was actually a lot of fun. The kids did not want to leave. We stayed until closing. Savanna woke up the next morning wanting to go back. This was a huge slide. They had a couple of these there.

This rollar coaster was pretty fun. Savanna went on it 3 times and wanted to go more. Sadie didn't want to ride it at first, but decided later to give it a try. She ended up liking it.

These things were cool. You had to peddle them and steer them around a course. I want one of them for myself.

Riding the airplanes.

On the bumble bee.

Savanna wasn't so sure about this. She's not really an animal lover. She likes them from a far.

But Sadie liked them.

Maddox was a trooper. He was so good while we were there.

Check out that death grip he has on Dale's hair.

Pumpkins


HALLOWEEN

We went to a Halloween party a couple of weeks ago and did a Halloweenie Roast. They had games for the kids, and it was fun getting to know some of the people in the ward. We had our Trunk-or-Treat last night and came home with buckets full of candy. It was fun to see all of the costumes.

Sadie, the butterfly

Savanna the ladybug

Maddox was a spider....a grumpy one.

He wasn't very happy. His costume didn't seem to bother him though, he was just grumpy.

He is getting 4 teeth right now, I guess that could be the cause of that.
Hope everyone had a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Chairs..

I've been looking for 2 matching chairs to put in my living room. I found two of these on craigslist and spent $50 for both. They were both in good condition, minus the staining. I thought maybe I could get the stains out, but decided that I would get them recovered instead. The Bishops wife in one of our last wards reupholsters furniture and I asked her if she would like to take this project on, knowing there is no way I could ever do it myself. To check out some of her work go to www.salvagechicfurniture.com.

Here is the before....

I painted the wood frame part black.
AFTER
I love them. They are perfect size. Thanks Diane, they turned out awesome.

Thanksgiving version of "Keep Calm and Carry On"

I have this haning in my family room I got a couple years back and I really like it.

I found this one on a blog, and thought it would be so cute to frame for Thanksgiving.

You can print off a copy here-

www.craftily-ever-after.blogspot.com/2010/10/thanksgiving-version-of-keep-calm-and.html

Kindergarden

We had a parent/teacher conference last week with Sadie's teacher and she told us that Sadie is very quiet in class. Which really surprised us, because she is not quiet at home. Her teacher thinks that she is just sitting there absorbing everything in. Her teacher is right. When she gets home everyday from school she plays school. She has imaginary students and of course Savanna to teach. She acts just like a teacher. It's funny to watch her :) She loves school now. It took her about a month to get use to it, and two straight weeks of her crying when I took her in the morning. She is making so many new friends and a lot of them are in our ward, which makes it nice.
Here is her Kindergarden picture. She looks so grown up in it.

The Birthday Girl

Savanna turned 3 on the 9th of October. She is getting to be such a big girl. She has been so excited for her birthday this year and kept singing "happy birthday to me." On Thursday we went to Kids Club and she got to sit on Dewper's lap while she got sang to, then she danced with Dewper. She loves Dewper and the Chik-fil-a cow that we get to see every Thursday at Kids Club.

Of course a carousal ride. Another highlight of her week.

We like to take advantge of this on Thursday's since it is free.

Maddox loves riding on the carousal.

He smiles, laughs, and kicks his legs the whole time.

On Saturday was her actual birthday and when she woke up that morning she had to reminded me of that, like I would forget. I had a boutique that morning so Dale took the kids to the zoo by himself. He seemed to handle it pretty well. After the zoo they came to visit me at my boutique and got to jump in the jump house there. Savanna was in heaven.

Maddox kickin' it in the stroller at the zoo.

Later that night we decided to eat out. We asked Savanna where she would like to go. She told us the pig place, also known as Famous Daves. For some reason she remembers this place and the sparkly thing they do for birthdays that she saw the last time we were there.

As we were driving there Sadie was complaining of a headache. I noticed she looked so tired and she wasn't going to be able last to eat her food. So she ended up laying on Dale's leg. She started to cry and said that she felt like she needed to throw up. I thought oh great. She sounded like she was about to, so Dale rushed her to the bathroom. She threw up all over Dale's shirt on the way to the bathroom and some more in the bathroom. One of the workers was kind enough to give Dale a spare shirt to wear home. After that our food came out and we just took it and left. Savanna was sad that she couldn't do her birthday sparkly thing. Oh well, I'm just glad that Sadie didn't throw up where everybody could see her in the restaurant.
Maddox enjoying some cheerios Famous Daves while we were waiting for Dad and Sadieto come out.

THe Birthday Girl

I guess this is her new smile these days.


Sadie resting on Dale's knee.....little did we know she wasn't feeling good.

On Sunday we did a little family party. Savanna could not stop talking about her party.
She got everything she ever wanted plus some. She is set on toys for a while.
The cousins who came.

Blowing out her candles.

Oh and another thing to add to her day, she gave herself a little haircut. She's been obsessed with doing her barbies hair lately. She went into my craft stuff and found my scissors.

She only cut it in one spot but all the way to her scalp. Its a good thing she has curly hair and you can't really tell unless you really look.

Maddox These Days.............

Maddox is EVERYWHERE!! He crawls everywhere and pulls himself up on everything he can. Hes been crawling really good since 6 months and has been pulling himself up at 7 months. I hope hes not an early walker.... I can already see him into everything 10 times worse then the girls ever were. His new thing is to pull himself up on the toy basket and pull out the toys.

I'll start worrying once he gets himself up on the first step.....

Playing with the girls...Hes always in the middle of everything.

Instead of going to sleep he pulls himself up in his crib and plays or cries.

Um... yeah...he still uses his swing. I know his feet are hanging out, but he still likes it. The swing still holds him...hes probably about to reach the weight capacity. Somedays its the only way he will take a nap.

His two bottom teeth have finally popped through...Yay a much happier baby. I've been blaming his crankiness the past couple of months on teething. Now what do I blame it on?

First Day of School!

Sadie was excited to start school today. When I woke up this morning she was already dressed. She was a little nervous once we got there and I have to admit I was little nervous too.

Lining up to go into class...

Here's her seat, she was trying so hard to keep it all together...
she was doing thses faces to keep herself from not crying.

It was a little hard for me to leave her like this. I have to admit I cried just a little bit. She was fine once we left and started to read the books on her table.

She had a fun day at school today though. She told me that she saw some of her friends that weren't in her class at recess and at lunch. Savanna didn't know what to do with herself without Sadie telling her what to do. It was a little quiet around our house without her here all day. We missed her when she was away at school. We will see how tomorrow goes. She already told me that she doesn't want to go tomorrow. Its going to take her a while to get use to it.

Maddox at 6 months

Maddox had his 6 month check up and here are his stats....

Weight: 18lb 7 oz (68th percentile)

Height: 25 1/2 (30th percentile)

He's a big boy! His Dr. was showing me his percentile chart and she said that she thought he would be in the 90th percentile for his weight and was surprised that he wasn't. She thought that he was a big boy. I love my Dr., I have had her since Sadie and Savanna were born and she remembers everything about them and kind of compares them when they were babies. When she was checking him he would not hold still and kept turning over to his stomach, he doesn't like his back as much.

I can already tell that he is going to be a very active boy. He reaches for everything in sight and is wanting to crawl so bad. He gets up on all fours and trys really hard to move. I know its all over when he starts to crawl.

Its time for a little trim...don't you think?

He's getting his first hair cut. As you can see he's not very thrilled about it.

All Done With Preschool

Sadie had her preschool graduation on Friday and is all ready to start Kindergarden in the fall. She is really excited about that and so is her mom. (but I still can't believe I have a 5 yr old)

She was happy that dad, mom, Savanna and Maddox could all come and watch her graduate.

Eating pizza at her graduation party.

The graduation was very cute. The kids started off by saying the pledge of allegiance and then sang a couple of songs they learned. Then that was followed by a slide show of all the things they did throughout the year.
Preschool Kids
Throwing off her hat...

Receiving her certificate from Ms. Nicole
Our little graduate

When it was all over we had cupcakes.