Rylee's #5 Birthday

Each year the girls pick a theme and then I create a display, presents and all, for them to wake up to in the morning! This year Austyn stayed up and helped!

 

 

This year Ry wanted a pedicure party!  She is such a girl!!!! She chose all the frill from high heals and a ballet dresses to fingernail polish and lace! We gave pedicure kits in jars to the kiddos to take home!  It was super fun!

 

 

 

 

Fingernail polish cake!

 

 

Our tradition is hands free cake eating! The kiddos love it!

 

 

 

Nice work sis!

 

  Lucky us Payton and Gram on the Farm got to visit!

Food Bank Adventure

Austyn's class got the amazing opportunity to visit and donate food to the Marysville Food Bank!  It was a great experience for the kiddos and really opened their eyes to all the people out there that are less fortunate than they are!  The class donated almost 300 lbs of goods and got to help the bank prepare for its gifting!

 

 

My Favorite Holiday!!

 

I know I am late, but I live by "better late than never"!  I love Halloween it is so much fun!  My camera was missing so I didn't get good pics; I had to borrow Shane's hence the wrong date on the pic! But the scary food is my favorite!  Earth worm hot dogs, bat wings, spooky spider, broccoli and eyeball salad, creepy red velvet cake! Yum yum!   This year the girls made it around the whole block adding it to the list of "firsts"!

House Ransacked!!!

At this point you may be thinking "Oh dear did their house get broke into and ransacked?!":) So just to set the record straight, NO we didn't get robbed, just ransacked, and I seriously thought about donating all the toys!;)

 

 

 

The culprits!

Thing One...

 

 

...and Thing Two!

 

The crime was commited in a matter of minutes!

Annual power drilling and gutting night!

Ha ha! I say this because I leave this activity to Shane, and of course men find the fastest and easiest way to "carve" pumpkins! So it is now considered power drilling and gutting night!

 

 

 

 

Austyn and Ry gutted their pumpkins bare handed this year!  Chalk it up for a first EVER!

 

Then it was  pumpkin power drilling time!

 

Austyn actually did it the old fashioned way hence the creepy knife!

 

Tada! Pumpkin!

 

 

My style!

 

 

And of course the yummies!  Spicy roasted pumpkin seeds and deep fried candy corn!

Clean the room trick!

 

I try to have the girls clean up their rooms everyday so they don't turn into disasters!  Between Austyn and Rylee, Ry usually beats her sister as Austyn gets preoccupied in her own thoughts!  This time though was unusually quick, but like I said she is usually the fastest so I didn't think twice about it  until.... I went to put a pair of shoes away in her closet!  I am not sure how many times this has occurred , but it was quite entertaining!  Everything was stuffed neatly in her closet  with her stool to hold it all in!  What a trick! Little stink!! Gotta love it!

Austyn and Rylee-isms

I know every parents thinks their child says the funniest things, but they really do!
Austyn-ism: (just waking up in the morning) Ahhh my back is so tired from sleeping on it all night!
Rylee-ism:  I'm scared of beatles, but I'm not scared of tigers!  They don't make me shiver!!

Rys First Day!

After volunteering for two full days a week in Austyn's class last year, Ry was more than ready for her first day at her OWN school! As other kids kicked and screamed as their parents handed them off, Rylee skipped in, blew me a kiss and was off!  All grown up and doesn't need her mom at four!  Oh dear!(:

The First Day of School!

This year Austyn gets to go to a new school!  We are trying a different program which is run by both teachers and parents!  The opportunities for her exceed that of a traditional classroom, and I feel she will flourish with all of her new found knowledge and experiences!

 

 

 ... and she gets to ride the bus, which is always exciting for a second grader!

 

So independent!  Walked right in and got down to business!

 



 

Nice work kiddo you are amazing!

Labor Day Funfest!

We always try to cram as much as possible into Labor Day weekend!  It started with Ellensburg rodeo, then an old country concert at the Snoqualmie Casino, and finally a great day of recouping at the cabin and on the lake in Kachess.  Of course I didn't have kids! SO of course I didn't take pics!(: Bummer!  Anywho here is one of me and my girls before a night of broncs, bulls and county swing!