"A SPECIAL THANK YOU & MERRY CHRISTMAS"

Yesterday me and the boys made some almond & peanut clusters, pretzels dipped in white chocolate with sprinkles & decorated some sugar cookies then we packaged them all up pretty and headed down to our local Fire Station to say "Merry Christmas" to the fireman!! My mom joined us along with my two neices Alyson & Cortney. I have to admit that on the way there while I was driving I started to feel a little stupid (especially after everyone I talked to was like "sure you're just taking the kids to see the fireman and say merry christmas"!!) hahahahaha, but once we were there I was very glad that we went. I cant even begin to explain how good they were with the kids ... they gave them a complete tour of the trucks and the station including sounding the alarms, showing them their rooms, letting them put all the headphones on and talk to each other in the trucks, I could go on and on!!! Such a wonderful experience .. the boys are still talking about it!!

Rilyn even kept her "fire chief" hat on!! Very surprising being that she is not a fan of hats!!

The smile on Rhett's face says it all (wish I could figure out how to rotate this pic)!!! He was probably the happiest little boy in the world!!

Cortney and Alyson!!

Dippin and dippin and dippin and dippin ..... pretzels!!!

"SCHOOL SPELLING BEE"

We are sooooo proud of Charlotte Rae who made it all the way to her school spelling bee after winning her class. Grammy and I went and watched and she did an awesome job!!! She got put out by the word "penguin" however the guy who was pronouncing the words for the kids to spell, in my opinion, completely said the word weird and thats what threw her off ... all in all she did a great job and we are very proud of her!! Goooo Charlotte!!!

"A CHRISTMAS SHOOT"

My cousin and her family came to visit us for a long weekend which turned out to be one of the most amazing weekends filled with baking, a little early christmas, ranger ride to look at christmas lights and lots of hang time with the kiddos!! While they were here and we had Rilyn & Colton together (with a little extra time for once) we decided to get some pics of them together!!

A CLOWN .. A FIREMAN .. & A WITTLE WABBIT!!

Trick or Treating was a blast this year .. the boy's finally didn't get all shy and go mute as soon as the door opened .. hahahaha .. we got a "trick or treat" and even a "thank you" out of them at pretty much every house .. Rilyn was waayyy to cute, she was a very determined little wabbit who refused much help dragging her trick or treat bag behind her .. lol .. although her hat (ears) didn't last long which daddy ended up wearing (a sight to see in itself)!! We hit the spot this year in Clay's bosses neighborhood ... the whole entire hood was DECKED out with deco. and almost everyone was home passing out candy and in costume which made for an aweome atmosphere!!

Bozo The Clown, aka Trey Mo. Bozo was very worried about his face paint all evening and continued to ask if it was still on and if it still looked ok!!! Mr. Perfection!!! The painted on smile along with his natural big ol' smile made for a GINORMOUS smile for us all to enjoy!!

Mr. Fireman, aka Rhett Man. I have never seen a more proud fireman, he kept saying "they'we pwobably gonna think I'm a weal fireman guys"(with the famous Rhett big serious eyes and eyebrows)!! He wanted a cardboard fire truck to carry along with him so bad but thank goodness we talked him our of it cause we didn't even make it home with his hat or his water pack, the last thing in the world we needed was one more thing to carry!!!

The Wittle Wabbit, aka Rilyn Awnry. So as you can see the attempt for a pink nose and whiskers ... failed (there was nooooo waaayyyyy little miss thang was accepting that) and although we were able to ditch blanky & bear bear for the night, we had no such luck with binkie who tagged along with us all evening!!!

Trey, Aiden & Rhett trick or treating!!

Everyone is already talking about next year's costumes and I keep telling them ... lets get through Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Birthdays, etc etc .... then we'll start planning next years costume ideas!!! LOL!!!

RILYN'S PAINTING DEBUT!!

For anyone who hangs around us or who has read my blog .. its pretty obvious how much my kids love to paint .. hahaha .. they are pretty much painting fanatics!! Well Rilyn finally got a chance to join in on the madness and painted momma my very first picture which of course I dated and will display in her scrapbook, after it comes down from the fridge of course!!! She loved every second of it ... of course!!!

ANNUAL PUMPKIN CARVING PARTY

This years pumpkin carving party was awesome and we ended up with some pretty rockin' jackolantern's!! All the kids did a great job on their pumpkins as well as the adults who participated!! Although I am still finding random pumpkin seed's around the house, LOL!! All the food turned out amazing as well ... we had "mummy" meatloaf, mashed taters, veggie casserole & some homemade pumpkin bread along with many other snacks and goody's!!

Hangin' out by the fire after the pumpkin carving festivities!!

The line up: Corey, Riley, Charlotte, Alyson, Kaia, Trey, Rhett, Ashlynn & Cortney!!

Trey hard at work, who refused ANY help!!

Grandma & Aunt Lacey!!

Rhett man did an awesome job and also required very little help!!

PUMPKIN PATCH #2

For our second pumpkin patch trip we did the annual Tolmachoff Farms, which the kids love!! Grammy & Grandpa John joined us and we had a great time and even daddy got to come this time!!!

Here is our attempt at a family photo ... hahahaha ... impossible!!!

Grammy and Rilyn checkin out the pumpkins!

The infamous corn pit ... every year we manage to bring home atleast one piece of corn some how some way ... this year was Rilyn's shoe, last year was Charlotte's ear!!! LOL!!