A Look Into Our Week (last week-I'm a little behind!)

We started the week off with another birthday celebration!  It was for Mark's brothers, dad, and cousin.  We had dinner, ate cake, and the kids played.  Happy birthday to the Watson men-we are glad we could finally celebrate your birthdays!

 

To start the week off, I let the kids come to school with me.  They normally come later, but they hurried and made it out the door in time.  They liked eating breakfast in my classroom.

Our evenings have been busy since we haven't been going outside as much....and Lincoln found lipstick.

We have been braiding Avery's hair so it's curly in the morning.

Then on Friday the preschool class joined our class for some painting and buddy reading.  I LOVE being able to spend that time with them!  Avery likes the older girls.

Mack likes our new class pet-Fruit Loop.

Fruit Loop is a snake...

Another evening activity-dressing your brother up like a princess.

Then on Saturday, before we headed to the lake, we had a friend birthday party-a Cinderella party.

Then we made it to our final celebration for the week (until Tuesday when it's Mark's birthday) Papa's birthday!

 We had an amazing dinner-eggplant parmesan!!!  YUM and we got time with my brother's family!!

 When we woke up in the morning we had a big breakfast, ate homemade carrot cake, and then opened presents.

 Happy birthday Papa!!  It was a whirlwind 24 hours, but we were so glad to celebrate with you!  We love you SO much and can't wait for many more celebrations!

 

It was a busy week-the kids are changing so much and they make our evenings and weekends full of excitement.  We have one more special birthday to celebrate tomorrow!!!  Then only a few more days until I have an entire week of with my babies!  I can't wait to soak in every minute with them!

My Cousins

 

I have written before how much I love that my kids get to spend time with their first cousins.  We are lucky because there isn't many weekends that go by they don't see some cousins. 

 

Last weekend my cousins came to town to hang out.  Not only did I get time with my cousins, but my children got to have special time with their second cousins!  I think we are up to 17 right now!  They all get along great and these girls LOVED coming to the "country".

They collected wood for a bon fire with their dump truck. 

 Then took a long ride around the yard.

 Before the adults went out to eat, we let them roast marshmallows.  It's a messy process, but it's fun to be outside by the fire. 

 I left my camera out and Meme got a picture of them all eating dinner.  She even got them all pj'd and put to bed!

It was GREAT to have time with these two!  They are two of many we love spending time with.

Now if we could just get the rest of the cousins to come visit...until then we will see most of them for our family Christmas party. 

Mum's Birthday!

September-November are filled with birthdays for us.  We have all our brothers, Mark's dad, My parents, and MARK!!

Unfortunately, we haven't shared any birthday celebrations, but we did go to the lake this past weekend because it was my mom's birthday and we spent time just hanging out.

 

 Friday night was spent playing and tackling Papa!

 Then Saturday we spent the day shopping, getting pedicures, had dinner out, and ate cherry pie at home.

 

Avery loves getting her nails and toes done!

This sweet boy was hooked on mommy and I took advantage of it.

Have I mentioned how hooked Lincoln is with mum?

On Sunday we spent the day outside warming up around the Bon Fire.

The trees have been amazing this fall!

Then we discovered walnuts...

Mack and Papa spent a lot of time cracking them open. Hopefully we can enjoy them over Thanksgiving.

Happy Birthday Mum!!! We love you and our time at the lake with you!

The Real Halloween

 

We had a lot of Halloween celebrations this year.  The day before Halloween I read an email that said the kids could wear their costumes... at first I was against it-too much work for the morning.  It ended up being fun and Avery wanted to be a different princess.

So I braided her hair-this was something my mom always did to my hair to make it curly.

It turned out so cute!  She was excited to wake up in the morning with curls.  Then we sprayed it with glitter, put some blush on and added a dab of lipstick.  BAM a princess!  I hope she wants to be this in the future-it's easy!

Mack was a race car driver.  He was the one who wanted to wear his to school the most.  He did and even had the hat on at times.

Since Lincoln stays at home with Meme she decided to dress him up.  I had him in green pants and an orange shirt, but then Meme mentioned having a pumpkin outfit at home.  She couldn't find hers so she borrowed one from a friend.  He got to have breakfast out and come by school all dressed up-it was SO cute!

When we walked in to school I couldn't help but LOVE seeing all these kids dressed up and most of the girls were princesses!  They were all different ones.  I love how Mack and Lincoln jumped into these pictures with all the ladies.

Then at about 1:00 in the afternoon I had several missed text messages about Mack.  He had another fever.  Off Mark went to the ER.  I immediately started to cry because we were at that exact hospital the year before.  Luckily, we had our special nurse Kari to take care of him (or to stuff him full of candy!)  They gave him an antibiotic, some Tylenol and LET US GO HOME!!!  This was so rare AND we were only there for few hours.  He does however need to stay home this week.  Whatever is floating around needs to stay away from him!  Back to his bubble he goes.

We still made the choice to have Halloween.  We headed to a few neighbor's houses-they had special treats ready for our kids, but since we live in the country and only have a few neighbors, we headed to Mark's parent's house.  Here we had dinner, handed out candy, and went to a few houses to try out Trick-or-Treating.

They loved all the candy and had a fun evening.

We tried to get a family photo as usual!

Our next door neighbors had these cake pops ready.  Miss Andrea's mom is in town and was experimenting with gluten and soy free treats.  They were amazing!  Even though we don't have many neighbors we are glad we have good ones!

I am thankful we got to have this holiday!  It was fun...and now we can rest!