Random

These last few weeks have been filled with all the usual fun Christmasy things.
Here are a few pictures or some other randomness.

Colton loving on Max. He absolutely adores his brother, sometimes to Max's detriment. And anyone who messes with Max better watch out. If one of us makes Max mad in anyway Colton is not happy about it.


Max has now entered the climbing on the table phase. Does every kid do this or just all of mine? It seems to be his very favorite thing in the whole world. Having marshmallows on the table for a few days definitely didn't help.

They Called Her on a Mission!

After much anticipation Grammy finally got her mission call! She was called to serve in Cape Verde which are a group of islands off the West coast of Africa! We are very excited for her, and we know she is going to make a great missionary!





Even though we love her and will miss her lots!

Kirsten talked about Indians in school a couple weeks ago. She had to make a model of an Indian home. She chose a tee-pee. She did this mostly by herself (which was really hard for me to not take over I think I may have some control issues I don't know...) and she did a great job!


Here is her family totem pole.


Kirsten took pieces of one of daddy's old shirts that he was sick of and ripped to shreds and had everyone wear them as scarves.


Watching a movie.

Thanksgiving Break

We had such a nice Thanksgiving break. It was so relaxing and fun I did not want it to end.

Wednesday: We decorated and Jonathan put up our Christmas lights. Kirsten has really been loving pretending like she's cleaning the pool. We had really nice weather so we hung out outside picking the last of our vegetables, riding bikes, and watching daddy put up the lights. Then we relaxed by watching some Elf and I baked. Perfect day.




Thursday- Jonathan played football and I did a 5k with some girls from the ward. We met Grammy for Lunch and then went over to some friends house for dinner. Kirsten loves playing with their little girl, Rhyan. They were born in the same hospital 2 days apart so there's a chance they've known each other since birth. The kids played so well together and it was great to hang out with friends.

Friday- We bought a tree and decorated it. Kirsten had been dying to decorate our gingerbread house so her and Jonathan did that too. Seth and Rachel came over that night. We played Ticket to Ride and hung out. Which is always great!


Kirsten's side with "magical snow"






Colton could not resist.








Max has started walking. He's still super unsteady so it's so cute.


Saturday we relaxed. Grammy came over to watch the OU game and took Kirsten to see Happy Feet 2. Max got a hold of some banana and threw up all afternoon. Kirsten started to get sick. So we just relaxed the rest of the day.

Such a good weekend. I hate when weekends like that end!

She Made the Paper

Every month Kirsten's school emphasizes a certain character trait and the students who exemplify that trait are given an award and their picture is in the local paper. This month the character trait was kindness and Kirsten was chosen from her class to get the award!

When I told Kirsten that she was chosen she was pretty nervous because she knew that meant she had to get up in front of all the 1st graders and talk, she did great though!


When it was her turn she said what the trait for the month was and said the quote of the month which is, "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice." She did great and didn't seem nervous at all. We were definitely proud of our sweet little girl.

Halloween

So we're a little late on these. Our computer has not been working. Anyway, here are the Halloween costume pictures.

As you can see they all wore different costumes on Halloween.

Kirsten was a ballerina.


Max was a little gentleman.




Colton was a football player.


Halloween has gotten so lame. There are way to many trunk or treats on Halloween! When we went outside no one was out there are no lights were on. So we had to drive to another neighborhood. It was really fun once we got there. When we got back home lots of kids were out so we trick or treated this neighborhood. So it ended up being a really fun night!

The kids got to wear their costumes last night because we had a trunk or treat for church.
Ever since I saw the pacifier mustache on Pinterest I had to use it for Max's costume. So we went with Hulk Hogan. He looked hilarious until he pulled off one side of it.




It was really hard to keep Colton to put his costume on unless he had some candy in his hand. So this is the only picture I got of him.


Kirsten originally wanted to be a bride. She told me she decided she wanted to be the bride of Frankenstein. After spending about an hour getting her ready she told me that she was "just kidding" when she said she wanted to be the bride of Frankenstein.


She did look pretty awesome though.




By the end of the trunk or treat she looked like this.


Some other random pictures from the week.


Kirsten was having a blast jumping off the couch.




Colton kept saying "yuck", "disgusting", and "ooh gross" when we were cleaning out the pumpkins.


Kirsten liked doing it all by herself though.

Fall Break

Today is the end of Fall Break. We had such a great weekend.
We made some witch's hats.


The weather has been so nice here for a few weeks. So after a too too hot summer the kids have loved playing outside on the swing set. Max loves to watch them out the window.


Kirsten pushing Colton on the swing. I had to take the picture through the window so I didn't knock Max over.


Kirsten loved "making cakes" with Max's present.


Kirsten has been wanting to go see the Buffalo at Wooleroc. So we met daddy for lunch in B-ville and headed down to see the Buffalo.


The kids actually loved walking through the museum. I thought they would think it was boring. But they loved looking at all the skins and stuff.












Their favorite part was the little playground. They could've stayed there all day. After we had been there for about an hour I told Kirsten it was time to go and she said she didn't want to because she was "having a blast".












The kids had so much fun playing together. Colton was being really sweet and holding Kirsten's hand when we crossed the street (which he won't normally do) When we got to the car Kirsten said "I like Colton". Phew, I'm so glad!

We said goodbye to the buffalo and headed home.

Thursday we met up with some old friends, Rachel and Darin. I didn't bring my camera. We have 9 kids between the 3 of us and it's kind of weird. I haven't seen Darin since she had her first so it was great to catch up with them. It's fun that we all live here at the same time. The kids all had a blast playing together.

Friday we went shopping and hung out at "daddy's office".

Saturday we played outside most of the day. Kristen went to a movie with Gramie, and then we watched that horrible game last night. Other than that it was a really great weekend!