Halloween Ward Party!

I only have this picture...not having a camera is truly ruining my blogging...Ryan has a camera on his phone, but it never gets downloaded to the computer and when I am ready to post them, he is no where around. They had a photo booth at the ward party Friday and I got this one off of facebook. The kids were so fun this year. Emma was a hoot. She had her "beautiful princess dress" that once on she never wanted to take off and we sprayed gold glitter on her hair and she was in heaven. "I am an angel princess" she kept proclaiming! She has so much attitude. I love her. Max was thrilled to be a pirate, a recycled costume from our overflowing box of costumes and Caleb, true to character was a dead rockstar, because "just a rock star is not that great for Halloween." Noah was a totally cool Frankenstein and Mara was an adorable bunch of grapes and Sam was Dracula for the ward spook alley that the young men (translated: I) was in charge of. We had such a great turn out and there were so many fun games for the kids to play. I didn't dress up, but when we went to eat, my plate broke and the chili dumped all down the back of my leg. I guess a chili dog was what my costume was for the rest of the night. The night ended with a trunk-or-treat and the kids got so much candy. It was great!
Saturday we had another costume party to attend and after costumes, hair sprays, and makeups for six kids two days in a row, my bathroom is covered in glitter and the fun has gone out of dressing up, so no trick-or-treating tonight since it is Sunday. But the kids haven't complained, they have enough candy to last until next year. No Joke! Hope your Halloween is a great one!

Happy Haunting!

{Puppy Love} 2010

All good things must come to an end...sometimes not fast enough! Love this one where Mara is losing hers.

They were fun to have around

Just got licked!

The kids are loving the puppies. Who ever gets these puppies will get puppies that are used to being carried and loved and kid handled. I think it is great. They are so tame and loving. What great puppies to get. They are sadly leaving us. I say sadly only for the kids...me not so sad, Miya either, she is so done with them trying to nurse everytime they see her. The kids all had their favorite, and each wanted to keep their favorite. Noah still says that he is going to pay us $50 for the one he really likes. I am just not up for another puppy. Sorry kids...not this time! So please someone, come get our puppies!

{October Update}

My Camera broke, and I am not technologically efficent to upload pictures from Ryan's "Droid", but I need to post about Noah!
Noah was chosen with three other 5th grade boys to run in the track meet in Great Falls. Four boys from each school got to run. His coach told him that he ran the mile in 7:35. At the meet he ran the mile in 7:48 taken 14th overall out of 43 5th grade boys! That is great considering that he has never ran much before. With a little training... i.e. running with mom...he could be really fast! I am just glad to have a running partner!

In other news, Mara and Emma started dance and LOVE love LOVE it! Emma is head and shoulders below the next shortest girl, but can shake her booty like no other! She stays focused and loves it! It will be so fun to have them both in the recital next year.
Sam made the piano player for the Jazz band and has started taking piano lessons again. He does such a good job, and can pick out any song he hears. Ryan thinks that is the greatest talent ever since it is usually RuSH and Coldplay that he plays on the piano. He is loving middle school, and will be in the science olympiad in Billings in November.
Noah is taking violin lessons as well and is doing really quite well. Caleb and Max are loving school, but will start speech since they both are having problems saying their "r" sounds....I think it's quite cute....who says that they need to say "wierd" instead of "weeiod"? Surly they will just outgrow it sooner or later...but they think speech is fun, so once a week for 30 minutes they will go.
That is my update...not a lot of exciting stuff...Ryan will have the next two weeks off...reapply for the job he has already been doing and hopefully have a job still at the end of the interview process. In the meantime he is plugging away at our basement. We ordered carpet today and it should be here in a week or 10 days! Halelujah to have that behind us soon!