Christmas decorating!

This year I decided to tackle decorating and putting up the tree without Elden's help! I do like to do it together as a family, however I had it in my head that the tree had to be put up that day. So Mitchell saved the day and helped alot! He helped me carry the tree in the house and stand it up. I was impressed! He also started putting on the lights without me having to ask him! He did awesome! The boys of course wanted to put the tree up already at 8 in the morning, so we settled on letting them put up their pencil trees at 8 instead. But by noon, we had the big one up as well! The kids did great with decorating the tree's this year and were a BIG help! I always look forward to decorating the tree's with them every year and will miss this age some day! Here's a few pictures of our fun day together!

Thankful Tree

This year I wanted to make a thankful tree. I've seen alot of people do it, and thought it would be a good lesson for the boys to learn and to remember what thanksgiving was all about. I went to the library and made some maple leaves from their die-cut machine and then had the boys tell me what they were thankful for and put it on the leaves. I hung the leaves with a paper clip so the leaves hung nicely. I just used a old vase and put some rocks in it for the base and used a branch for the "tree" that I found from the yard. Total cost: $0. I like to make things that don't cost anything to make but look cute in the end! I was happy how it turned out and the boys learned a valuable lesson!

Wild Kratts

Last week Friday Mitchell had "dress up" day at his school. My good friend thought of an idea of having her little boy and Mitchell be the "Kratt brothers". Connor of course didn't want to be left out, so he was "Jimmy". Mitchell was "Martin" and Skye was "Chris". The boys had a great time together and even made it in the school's newsletter! What a fun idea!

Halloween Party at Nana's house!

Addy holding Peyton

                                             The cousins in the costumes!

We had a great time at Nana Olson's house this year at trick-or treating! The kids had so much fun dressing up in their costumes...Papa was often thought of especially seeing Caleb's costume! Papa would have LOVED that costume!! We first made a craft with Mason canning jars. We cut out "leaves" from duck tape and let the kids put them on the jars whereever they wanted to . Then the kids painted the jars and put a battery operated candle in it. It turned out cute! We then put on our costumes and looked for candy down stairs. The kids had a blast finding it! We were going to make a halloween treat but ran our of time but our cousin Dawn brought us some yummy cup cakes to have instead! It was alittle crazy with 10 kids in the house that were 7 and under, but they all had fun playing together!Enjoy the pictures! 

Share Preschool Halloween party

Connor just loves preschool! He was so excited for his halloween party this year! He has lots of friends to play with but he playes mainly with Addison Van Maanan, and Lincoln Peterson mainly. He was a race car driver this year, so he was pretty excited since he likes race cars! One of his favotite halloween rymns that he learned was "Fly away boo, fly away boo, come back boo, come back boo(really loud)". He said that rymn so many times in the past few weeks. The Share preschool always does such an amazing job with the kids every year and we are blessed to have our child there!

trick or treating 2011

This year we started off our trick or treating by having nana Olson come and visit us! We couldn't wait to show her our costumes! After that we went to the hospital with aunt Angie and got LOTS of candy! And since it was such a nice night, we decided to go visit some members of our church. Here are a few pictures of Marv and Dena Gearhart, and Betty Ward. The kid's favorite part was going from door to door and getting candy! That was the first time they got to do that, so it was extra special! We ended the night by going to TJ's for supper, so life couldn't get much better for the kids that night!