Do a better job

So I know that my blogging abilities have been less than awesome this past month. I promise I will do a better job. I miss my camera. I miss catching our daily life through pictures and sharing those. I promise. For now, this will have to do. We are all surviving. The girls had croup but it has now turned into something new. Something rattley and raspy and gross. Looks like we will be heading back to the dr. sometime soon.
Ryan and I enjoyed a nice weekend without the kiddos. And as much as I hated sending them away while they were supposed to be on the mend, I needed a little break. I only wish more moms had the option of taking a little break. I enjoyed spending time at home watching football games in our sweats :). But to see their little faces this afternoon was priceless. I won't allow myself to imagine what life is going to be like when they are gone, moved out, and moved on. It just isn't going to happen, right?
Chase is doing well and enjoying have a break from sports. He is enjoying school and loving all of this warm weather we have been having. I am excited to have him home for a few days this week to help in the kitchen. He is becoming quite a little chef. I am thinking some culinary classes are in store for him and I next month.
That is about all that we are up to. We have tried to stay pretty quiet and keeping all those nasty germs to ourself. More pics to come this week!!

Fall is here!

Oh how I love looking out our kitchen window to see frost sitting our patio. I just adore the weather today, cold and windy. Forces us inside to snuggle and craft :). I have many pictures from the past weekend. Chase has his last football game of the season and from what I hear it was one I was meant to miss. The ref's were not fair and towards the end of the game our own coach got thrown out. All of our parents were in an uproar. It is hard to see our boys play their little hearts out only to lose the most important game because of bad calls. But it is over and life has moved forward. And as mad as the parents were, I know we are all so proud of our boys and how they make our Saturdays so much more fun!!



On Sunday, we met our baseball team for some fun at the 'patch. We were treated like royalty and man did we live it up!! We were able to do anything we want for FREE and that included eating anything. It was so fun :).



Sliding on the rolley slide


Love the idea of a sandbox filled with corn.


wouldn't be a post without one of Kyndall screaming, right.






Here are the boys :)

Then we had to get those pumpkins carved and ready for Monday night. Here are the kids having some fun. It is always a good laugh to watch the kids pull out the guts. Ella hated it but wouldn't let anyone else do it for her.









Monday night was such a blast. The kids looked just adorable....ok well Chase looked all sorts of scary and the girls were adorable.




My little supergirl! You WILL change the world, I just know it.


Funny story with Chase. He wanted to be scary this year. The girls weren't too happy about this. Kyndall wouldn't even walk when we went trick or treating because she was scared of Chase. Towards the end of our t&t time, Chase had scared about 3 or 4 kids to the point of tears. After the 4th kid cried and was scared Chase came and stood by me on the street and took off his mask. His comment to me was "maybe I shouldn't have wanted to be scary". He was a little upset that he had scared so many kids. Sweet boy of mine :)

Then after some trick or treating we went to a friends house to enjoy some very good Idaho'ian food and watch the Chiefs play. I have been desiring much needed friend time with a family that is like ours. I think we found it :). We had a great time with lots of laughing.



We are all recovering from our crazy busy weekend and Halloween which means lots of coffee and playing on the couch. We had a good time last night bowling with Ryan's work buddies. The kids all had a great time and I just adore watching my hubby bowl. November brings us reason to reflect on our past and treasure those around us. We, as a family, are focusing on what we are thankful for. So far it has been a good start. I hope your November is starting out the same way :)