Marty, field trip, bike, and snow

For Christmas Santa got me a puppy, a super cute pompoo, we named him Marty Mcfly!! He is a great puppy, Bruce took awhile to warm up to him but eventually they were playing together. He was doing great on potty training, and we were loving having him around, unfortunately after only a week we discovered that he was a bit more Pomeranian than poodle and the dander was making Malachi's nose run and our granny had an itchy rash all over from our Marty boy, so we had to make the very difficult choice to find Marty another home!! Mallory and I went on a field trip to the Tacoma Children's theater and "went on a bear hunt" it was a good show, they involved the audience a lot, we even got a little wet!! Andrew has been playing Lots of Basketball these days. Malachi likes to practice with him, the season is almost over and Andrew is really excited to Starr his new Baseball team! Mallory just got her training wheels off her bike and is still working on ballancing her bike! It's been really cold the past week so we pretend we are dragons on our way to the bus!! Have you seen "despicable me"..the unicorn picture is Malachi being so fluffy he is gunna die!! It finnaly snowed in Washington, so I sent out all THREE of my children to make snow angels, snow men and go sledding!!

Christmas Vacation

The kids have enjoyed not having school for a few weeks. We had lots of fun Christmas parties to go to, presents to open, and stuff to do. We had a wonderful and quiet Christmas Eve at home reading stories and singing songs. Christmas morning was wonderful, the highlights were probubly Andrew- basketball Hoop and legos, Mallory- Hello kitty sheets, pillow pet, Lego set, Malachi- coin collection stuff and Netflix, Layne- new puppy and cute new clothes and makeup. For the rest of the break we just played...Mallory had a tea party, so Andrew and I went on a mommy-son date. We went Rollerskating with the Chappells! It was fun but we are happy to return to a more structured routine.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

It's been a busy couple of weeks around here. Mallory and Andrew are busy in school, we've had lots of holiday parties, concerts and festivals to go to. My dad, grandparents and I took a little weekend trip to go to Uncle Howards funeral. Spencer boy is getting so big. I have not been very good at remembering to take pictures, I'll try to work on that.

Catching up

I got a new phone about a month ago and could not figure out how to download new pictures, here are some of the pictures about what we have been doing!

Not much going on...

I looked at my blog and realized I had not posted since school started...Oops!

 Malachi had his Annual "Silver Cowboy Poker Tournament" that he participated in September!

 Our Andrew boy turned 7- we kept it Very low key this year- just special pancakes, cupcakes at school and a special dinner with ALL the grandparents and (of course) presents!

 This picture was on my camera so the boys must have gone shooting sometime this month!

 The end of September we went to Court and Spencer's mom got custody back of him! Since she never really got to celebrate the pregnancy or birth of this special boy I threw her a baby shower to show her how much we all love and want to support her and Spencer! It really was great because she got some things she really needed to him!

last week we carved our pumpkins. Malachi and Mallory were on a team and Andrew and I were on a team. I will try to post pictures of the completed pumpkins when I post their Halloween costumes!

Besides that the kids go to school every day. Mallory is having a little trouble adjusting to all day kindergarten, but she loves school and has tons of friends- she is really turning into a social butterfly! Andrew is doing great! He is in the top reading group in his class and we just signed him up for basketball starting in November! Malachi is Very busy at work, working extra days and overtime. he just got a raise and overall really likes the people he works with! I keep myself pretty busy between my primary calling, cub scouts, trying to keep up on household chores, watching Spencer 3-4 days a week, volunteering at the kid's school and I've been trying to focus on loosing weight so I am at the Gym and walking outside as much as I can...We are all busy, but life is good!

First days of school, a Camel and The narrows

Here is Our Andrew boy on his first day of FIRST grade- when did he get so BIG?

 He was LOVING his Angry Birds shirt and Mario backpack!

 Mallory started Kindergarten the next day! She was HELLO KITTY from head to toe- Including panties!

 Granny bought her this backpack and she is in LOVE with it!

 After only a few days a school the kids had a 4 day weekend. We've had our zoo pass for almost 3 years now and for approximately 3 years the kids have been asking to ride the Camels- and I would reply "mommy doesn't ride camels you will have to wait for a time when daddy comes with us!" So since it was the LAST DAY until our zoo pass expired we went and daddy rode the camels with the kids!

 And we fed the Buggies! We saw our favorite animals the Elephants, polar bears, and sharks. Then we watched the show for the 105th time! I am going to miss going to the zoo all the time...

 Around our house we are trying to make some healthier lifestyle changes, and becoming a more active family. So Monday we drove over to the Narrows bridge and walked over and back- from where we parked it ended up being a 3 mile walk- with some monstrous hills! The kids did REALLY well, we are going on another family walk this weekend- stay tuned to find out where!