Our First Snow of the Year

This morning mother nature really caught me by surprise.  I guess I should watch the weather more often.  We were all getting ready to take Hans to school and did our normal routine, when we all looked out the window and saw that is was snowing hard.  Lets just say that I have never scrambled so much to find appropriate clothing for my children to walk out the door.  I was not ready for the snow, so therefore didn't have the gloves, socks, hats and jackets out.  It was definitely a fun morning trying to get out the door. 

Happy Birthday Mom!

Today was my mothers birthday and we had so much fun.  We went over to her house where Danielle my sister in law and my nephew where there, and we had a wonderful lunch with them.  After we played a game that required answering questions about my mother.  After that the kids spent time playing with their Lita.  The last thing we did was cut the cake and eat it.  I sure do love birthday!

My first pie of the season

Today was a great day for me.  I baked my first pie of the season.  That may not sound like something important to most people but to me, when I bake my first pie it signifies the beginning of all the fun holidays to come.  I love this time of year because the pies, the candle and the hot chocolate come out.  Not to mention that I love pumpkin pie, so whenever I can make it I do. 

No need for a play set

I have come to the conclusion that there is no need to pay for an expensive play set for outside when you have creative kids and trampoline metal.  My kids wanted to play outside for a little bit after school today and when I went out there, they had made this fun jungle gym out of the scraps from our old trampoline.  I was impressed that they had come up with this plan and very grateful that they could work together to entertain themselves. 

Let the Halloween month begin

Today was a fun day for us.  All day the kids were waiting for after family home evening so that we could start decorating the house for Halloween.  The kids loved putting up the spider web at the corner of our house that we always do and added some fun little spiders, goblins and skeletons to it.  We also picked the pumpkins that we had grown from seed in our yard to finish off the decorations.  The kids were proud of their creativity and I was proud that we had grown pumpkins to use for this month. 

Final product

It's a Boy!

Today Paul and I went in for our 5 month ultrasound and found out that we were having a boy.  We are so excited.  We will have two boys and two girls now and that is what we wanted.  We feel so blessed to have this baby and cannot wait to add him to our family. 

1st day of Ballet

Her first bun in her hair

This year we decided to have Liesl start ballet and tap.  She has been so excited to do this and to have something she can do on her own considering Hans has been in soccer and in school.  Today was her first day.  It was so much for for me to go and watch her do this because it brought back memories of my ballet days.  

Standing outside the door waiting to go in