Where, Oh Where.......

could my little girl be????   Where oh where could she be????

Oh there she is.....she was hiding from me!!!

And how about that sweet little boy of mine.................

well he was just chilling out.

Well it has been kind of a BAD week for me! One of those sick to my stomach, can't sleep kind of weeks, we'll just say that you really should listen when people say not to go into business with family and we'll leave it at that.

Anyway that is not the point of this post, the point of it is that despite having a bad week, I am beyond blessed to have 4 beautiful, awesome kids who never fail to bring a smile to my face. Even though one of those said kids peed in a tote of toys but that's a whole other post.

Man...I love these kids!

Today started out bad because I get up to get the kids ready and it seems really bright outside but don't think much of it until I was making the kids breakfast and realize all the clocks in the kitchen say 8:30 and I freak out. Apparently my self setting alarm clock decided it was sunday and daylight savings time so we got up an hour late. Enough of my venting, I wasn't going to let my bad week prevent me from sharing a very important milestone for the littlest of my crew.

My sweet little boy giggled for the first time on halloween eve, just a small giggle and then on halloween night I had him really giggling good. It just melts my heart and brings a big smile to my face so here are some pics of my sweet boy that always make me smile.

Little GQ, smiling it up for the camera.

Love, love, love this sweet face.

His new favorite toy (not the elephant, his hand)

                                                                             
And some more pics from October that make me smile...................

Me and my kiddos (notice Ry's grumpy face, she was mad at me for something.)

Going for a ride with Daddy in the bucket truck.

                                                                                  

Yes, my kids are waaaaaay up there, and there Daddy is the only one I would let take them up there.

Owen is the king of fake smiles so I loooove it when I capture a real one.

Hanging out in the sling, what a rough life.

The outfit so fits her personality, my crazy little girl.

I love this picture, Rylie looks so pretty and so grown up.

Rylie and Owen sound like an old married couple anymore but they still love each other.

Rylie and Katelin at the park.

What's up????

My little princess all konked out.

Go Chiefs!!!

Happy Halloween!!!!

We had a great halloween......all the kids dressed up as pirates this year. I didn't think they would all do a theme and dress alike but we picked out Katelins costume and Rylie wanted to be the same. Owen wasn't on board until he found out we would buy him a sword and he was all about being a pirate. We went to a halloween party at my friend Amy's last night and went trick or treating with Rylies best friend Abby and her parents around her neighborhood.  Living in the country means no trick or treating around our house.

My little pirates this is the best picture I got of the four kids because..........

one of my little pirates was in a very grumpy mood and not even bribery would make her smile!

                                              My little mama loving on our little Evan.

                                             Owen and the sword that sold him on the costume.

 Katelin in a better mood, she is my little candy lover and kept saying "momma, i'm getting a lot of candy!" I don't think she knew what to think about ringing all these door bells and people just giving her candy. She didn't want to quit, I think she would have gone all night if we let her!

 Evan slept the whole time we were out (about an hour and a half), he had his snowsuit, was in a sling against me and had a blanket so he was nice and cozy the whole time.

                                                 The entire crew at the end of the night.

  The kids got a ridiculous amount of candy, notice the little hand in the bottom right corner, i'm sure noone could guess who's hand that is,lol. Sadly she didn't get to eat anymore, i'm not one of those moms who let my kids go crazy with their candy. It will be put up and given out in small quantity here and there until one day several months down the road I throw away what is left.

 My sweet little Evan on his 1st halloween, no costume for him this year just a few cute halloween outfits!

                                               The cutest little pumpkin butt i've ever seen.

I wish I could say this was Katelin all tuckered out after a busy day but this is how we found her before we went trick or treating, and now it's nearly 11:00, the big kids are sound asleep but not my Katelin! That power nap and her sugar high have her going strong. I hope everyone had a great halloween, i'm going to go and get my little pirate to bed now.



Fall Parties and Pumpkin Carving

We had fall parties at school on Friday. Since they aren't allowed to have Halloween parties anymore (which I think is stupid but I guess my opinion doesn't matter on that), they have vocabulary parties. They dress up to match their vocabulary word! Kindergarten does colors but since Owen is morning kdg. they weren't in the parade so he wore his Chiefs shirt since it was also favorite sports team day!

Favorite sports team day. Go Chiefs!

Owen during his class party (notice Katelin by his side eating his treats)

Rylie's class made costumes out of recycled material during school and her word was "silly"! They had their parade and then we went back to her classroom for her party!

The treats I made for Ry's class.

Silly RyRy during the parade.

No outing is complete without Katelin doing something......she soaked herself in the water fountain,
gotta love my crazy little girl!

How cute are they???? She loves to show off her baby brother!

They raced in teams to wrap up a classmate as a mummy.

After a busy day at school we ordered some pizza and carved pumpkins the kids had a lot of fun.

We let Rylie and Owen draw their own faces on their pumpkins and they did an awesome job!

I love how Owen's is so unique to him, it makes me smile everytime I see it!

 Can we say Pumpkin head????

And we can't leave out my little pumpkin...
holding his little pumpkin!