Family Night

Last Thursday night we had a fun Family Fun night for Braydens Preschool. There are only 12 kids in his class with 2 teachers. He loves going and can't wait to go back! It was fun to see him playing with the other kids and the interaction. Although he refused to sing or dance with the other kids when they were singing as a group. Alexis was so excited to go see her old teachers.

I am getting forgetful in my older age:) I forgot my camera. So I only took these shots from my cell phone camera.
Brayden writing on a calender

Princess Alexis

Coloring and cutting at the art table

Singing and dancing-notice Brayden just standing there in the red

More singing-Alexis remembered this song from last year.

Ohh Brayden is an Aligater:)

David and Alexis were in preschool together last year. They were having fun!

A finished project- the kids made turkeys

On Friday we also had Family Night at Alexis school. It was crazy busy there so I never got my camera out. But Alexis had a blast. Brayden had a little fever and a stomach ache that afternoon so he stayed home with Grandma until Dad got home.

Lazy Saturday

My little Bella loves her mama:)

We had a very lazy day today. Alexis had gymnastics in the morning because she had missed it on Thursday. Brayden had his preschool family night that night and she wanted to go to that instead. I will post pictures of that when I get a chance. I went to my friends book party which she had booked from my party. We all met back up at home by 1:00 and we decided to just vege out for the day and have a movie night. We are all in different stages of an icky cold so we thought it would be best. We had fun, we watched Dr. Doolittle 3 something we had never seen, it was on cable. We also had popcorn. Here are some pics from our afternoon:

Bella found a warm spot in the sun and Pumba still isn't quite sure about this little thing running around taking up his space. They are at the stage of smelling noses Pumba hisses and Bella tries to hiss back and Bella could really care less:) Pumba usually just walks away but keeps an eye on her!

Pumba sleeping on the couch earlier

Pumba never lays by my legs I think he is a bit jealous that little Bella wants to be on top of me:) Even right now as I type this she is on my lap:)(Edited to add picture which is at the top)

Pumba again notice we are all relaxing very well! Just what we needed.

Jason and Brayden watching the Gophers. Alexis took these last three pictures.

A new addition:)

Isn't she cute:)

So, a couple weeks ago there were 4 or 5 kittens running around at my parents house and hiding under their deck. They wouldn't even come out. We fed them a few times. This last weekend it was very cold, windy, snowy. Sad to say there was only one left and I just couldn't let her go to kitty heaven. We spent the weekend with my dad's sisters and one of them said they would take her home and give her a place to live.

However today when my friend brought her to her vet clinic and checked her out it was a little more than my Aunt wanted to pay and yes I kindof got attached to this little kitten. So needless to say we are the proud parents of a little girl. Not quite sure of a name yet. Maybe Bella, possibly Cali(for calico cat).

Mom and Dad you can lift your jaws back up:) It will be ok:)

Here she is: She is actually calico grey, orange and white

Trick or Treat

Friday was a very busy but fun day. The kids were so excited to put on their costumes and celebrate the day. We started out the day by bringing Brayden to the doctor. Nothing too serious. He had 4 spider bites on his fingers that were/are infected. His doctor put him on meds and we are hoping that will help out. I also decided that it would be a good time to do his flu shot since his big sister wasn't there to scare him. I can't wait for her to get hers(NOT)! She is going to scream going in and coming out:(

I dressed the kids up in their costumes(Brayden, Riley and Abigail)
Here's our turtle:

I dug out Alexis pumpkin costume she wore and put it on Abigail. It brought back many memories:)

and we picked up grandma for a little help. We were on our way to the doc, lunch and then to Alexis school for a parade of all the kids. They had the kids walk in with their teachers(Alexis is the white Unicorn)

We sat by Laura and her daycare kids(the ones I watch once in awhile)

Around 5:00 we were on our way to a couple houses around our neighborhood and my parents and then we were going to drop Riley and Abigail off at there house

but we decided to go trick or treating together in town. So we found a newer neighborhood and walked up and down the street. We had a great time. The boys did really good until the way back. Their little legs were getting tired so we ended up carrying them. Everyone enjoyed their night and ended it with a few treats.

Our last stop was Aunt Kelly's. Here she is saying "wow this is heavy!" They ended up with quite a bit of candy(It's really good too:)) We are all enjoying it!

The kids also decided that they wanted S'mores to eat so we stopped by for a campfire at grandma and grandpas. Brayden fell asleep almost right away. Alexis enjoyed her S'more:)

1st Snowfall!

Can you believe it?! It didn't accumulate to much but our first snowfall of the year happened today. It was a beautiful day yesterday. I believe it was in the high 50's maybe even 60. Today brought cold, extremely windy, wet snow.

My friend Kim came today with her kids and husband. Kim helped us pick out the Usborne books for the party I had. It was fun to see them, because it has been a long time since we had seen them. My party turned out very good. I had a lot of outside orders so that helped.

After they left, Jason and the kids went outside to play in the snow. It took a while to round up all the snow gear, hats , gloves and snow pants, but before I knew it there was a snowman on the swing set, ready to go for a slide:) The kids had fun throwing snowballs at daddy too.

Starting the snowman

Brayden helping Jason put the head on

Jason and the kids with their snowman

Now it has eyes, a nose and arms:)

Our week

After all the excitement over the weekend. We were right back in the groove of things on Monday morning. I got Alexis on the bus and then I decided it was the day to get back in shape:) So I hopped up on the treadmill and said I am sorry to him for not walking on him for so long! And got back in the groove of things:) So far so good!

Our days kind of blur into each other. The kids keep me on the run between preschool, kindergarten and gymnastics. And everything else in between. So here are some pictures from our week.

I'll start off with little Abigail. She gets bigger everyday I see her.
Here she is sleeping peacefully

She has become a lot more alert these days

And gives the cutest little melt your heart smiles

Brayden and Riley posing for a picture after playing with their cars and trucks

Brayden coloring

And then the strangest thing happened. I think it is anyways. Brayden was writing his name of the opposite side of this color page and ran out of room. So he flipped the page over and started writing his name backwards and managed to perfectly write it so if you put it up to a mirror it would look normal. Hmmm. I wonder if that means something?

Then today we went back to the Apple Orchard because we ran out of apples, except we only had Riley, Abigail, Brayden and my Mom.

Riley hanging out in the wagon

The boys picking apples

Abigail slept the whole time. She had a great time!

Riley throwing the apple in the bag after I asked him to be gentle with them:)

Tomorrow we are going to do a little shopping, Jason and I might even go on a date, and then on Sunday I have my Usborne book party. If anyone is interested in any books just click on the link: http://www.ubah.com/ecommerce/main.asp?sid=E2049&gid=69886311&HID=HOS127335

FYI

There is a new post under the saturday one. I am not sure why it posted that way? But if you want to read about our fun Sunday just scroll down:)

A Sad Saturday:)

Saturday after Brian and Michelle left we spent the morning/afternoon outside. It was a beautiful Fall day. However it was also a sad day because the docks and boats were coming out of the lake.

Alexis found a frog when she was raking

Alexis' pile of leaves

Brayden got into the action. Alexis put him to work collecting leaves from around the bushes. He was putting them in the back of the tractor and dumping them in her pile.

A little dew on the grass.

Dad and Jason set out the weighters so they could get in the cold lake water.

A toasty fire

Brayden helped grandpa drive the tractor

I helped my dad mow the grass/collect the leaves while they brought in the dock. The kids helped me dump it out.

Later on Jason went to a Hockey game in Mankato. He met one of his coworkers in St. Peter, ate, and headed to the game. It sounded like they had a fun time.

A fun Sunday

Sunday afternoon was super nice. I decided to try to get in some last fishing for the year. Alexis wanted to try too. I caught a couple bass, one of which was over a foot long:)

Here is Brayden fishing with Jason and my Dad watching

Alexis didn't catch anything but had fun trying

While Alexis fished, Brayden started to walk in the water with his rainboots on. Well he realized that he had a hole in his boot:) He was having so much fun splashing in the lake that Alexis had to join in!

Both kids were soaking wet and a bit chilly. Luckily grandma had an extra set of clothes

We ended the day by cooking hamburgers over the fire. Another fun weekend at the lake.