ONLY HOURS AWAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATRICK!!

Today is Patrick's 4th birthday so here are 4 of the many things we love about Patrick.

1. He is such a sweet, loving guy.
   
2. He's a great helper.
   
3. He loves to cook. When Dot runs out of bones Patrick is there helping from start to finish.


4. He is a wonderful singer and knows a lot of Primary songs by heart.

The list could go on and on. We love you Patrick!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLIN!!

Today is Colin's 4th birthday so here are 4 of the many reasons we love Colin:

1. He gives the best huggin's around.



2. He is super smart and always thinking about everything!



3. He is an excellent builder, Lego's, Lincoln Logs he can build with it.



4. He very artistic. He can draw our family, write his name (almost), and just this morning he made a "sculpture" of me out of Playdoh (complete with ponytail).

I could go on and on, he's just a great guy. We love you Colin!!!!

The Boys Birthday Party

Today we had the boys birthday party. The boys saw this cake in a magazine and loved it. I think this a pretty good recreation.
The boys got some great gifts.
Thanks everyone!!

Patrick blowing out candles.

Colin blowing out candles.

This is the twinkie cake I wanted.

1st Snow of the Season

Impressive!

Pretty Patrick

Today is laundry day. Never Patrick's favorite day because his favorite clothes are being washed.

This morning he needed a pair of his "pretty paints". By some miracle I found a clean pair in his drawer. A few minutes later I went into his room and he was on his bed whining. Why? Because he couldn't find "a beautiful shirt" in his closet. I looked and was able to find this shirt, a duplicate of his currant favorite.

I feel so lucky to have avoided a major melt down first thing in the morning and to have such a pretty and beautiful son!!

We Voted

In an attempt to teach the kids about voting we had a family vote for election day. On the ballot:dinner choices of pizza or haystacks, for desert: root beer floats or cake, and Samantha's proposition (prop. 1) computer use at meals. Pizza and root beer floats won and prop. 1 was voted down (sorry Dale). I even got extra stickers for the kids from when I voted.

Happy Birthday to Me!!

Enjoying a day of leisure. Yeah right!!

But who can complain with gifts like these??

Who knew baby Gouda wax was an art supply?

GOAL!!!

Samantha has been having a great time playing soccer this year. She played last year but this year she's really getting it. She's a fast runner and is always up by the action but she's not very aggressive, she doesn't get the ball very often.

That all changed today. In the last half she got the ball, ran it down the field, and scored!

It was so great, she kicked the ball at the goal and it rolled right up to the goal. I was afraid it was going the stop or the goalie would pick it up. Dale and I were yelling for her to kick it in and it just kept rolling and went in. She was so proud of herself.

O.K. so I'm sure you noticed she doesn't have the ball in the above picture. I was too busy watching the action I didn't even think to get out the camera. Oh well.

Happy Halloween!!

Commander Samantha and two of the cutest aliens in the universe!!
I don't think I'll win any make-up awards.