Family Pictures

I love this crazy group.

Halloween

My kiddos all ready to head out trick or treating.

The most handsome Elvis I've ever seen.

Nerdy Girl, forgot her pencils!

Zombie Cheerleader Ava.

Knight in Shining Armor

Beautiful Princess

I can't help but want the twins costumes to go together. A Knight who saves the Princess? So sweet.

I mustache you a question...

Don't you just love finding treasures in pockets of things you haven't worn in awhile? Paul found these gems in his suit coat the other day. They were given to us at a wedding we went to several months back. Kids LOVED them.

Sumo Bubble Wrestling

While Paul has been on light duty, he's been putting together new air packs for all the fire fighters. Afterward, he brought home all the bubble wrap for the kids to play in. Sumo Fun!


It's all fun and games until somebody got hurt though. Anna had a pretty hard hit to the back of the head. Now she has a nice goose egg.

My hairy boy

This is my sweet boy. Sweet, hairy boy. Thought he'd be funny and grow out a beard during the 7 weeks he was off from work. It's scratchy. I'm not a big fan, but he is so handsome anyway. Love this boy.

Day before he headed back to work he shaved! I spent at least an hour touching his baby smooth face. I found these on his phone though and had to share.
His dirty old biker stache.

the magnum stache.

Lazy Days

The twins and I have been having some lazy days now that the girls are in school.

1st day of school

It was the first day at a brand new school and I must admit I was quite nervous for my girls. Most likely, more than they were.

Anna is in 5th grade and has Mr. Bagley. One of the girls from her soccer team is in her class, so she was happy to know someone before school started.

Lainie is in 3rd. She found out at back to school night that Paul's brother's wife's brother's daughter is in her class. (did you follow that?) Just the week before we had gone to cousin Adyn's 1st birthday party and she was there too. She has Mr. Jones.

Ava is in 1st and totally excited to eat lunch at school, bummed not to get to ride a bus, but excited none the less. She has Mrs. Waldvogel.

Owen is stuck with me and Lils at home.

And Lils wanted no part in our first day of school pictures.

I took my kids to school the first day, of course. I get so nervous for them.

SHINGLES!

Around the first of August Paul got what we thought were a couple of bug bites around his eye. They started small, but then seemed to swell a bit over a period of 3 days. My sister said one night, "that looks a lot like shingles." Paul quickly looked it up online and agreed so we ran to the night clinic and it was confirmed. Shingles!! The next few days got progressively worse. Every day he'd wake up without shoulder pain and with excruciating head pain. He likened it with having someone constantly hit your head with a hammer. It dampened his spirits quite a bit. I felt really bad. He couldn't love on his children with a hurt shoulder and contagious face. They all had their chicken pox vaccine so we were fine but he was still very careful. It got worse for about 6 days before it started getting better. Here are a few shots of his worse days.

Sunday Walks

Another walk around the neighborhood. these two like to ride instead.

Pioneer Day

My sisters community puts on a parade and breakfast every pioneer day. Families are invited to dress up and ride around a few blocks before eating breakfast together. It was a very humble parade, but fun for all who were involved. Our whole family rode on a wagon and waved to about 10 spectators.

Getting ready for the parade to start.






On the wagon.


Eating breakfast. Homemade scones, yum!

1st week in our new place

It's been a whole week since moving into my sister's basement. Kids ask me everyday to go back to our house, but we are adjusting. Our plan is to save, save, save and find some land to build. (hopefully) My sister has been more than gracious and we have felt very welcome.
We take evening walks around the block, Paul joined us in the jazzy, but then decided it was lame and walked with us.

There was an awesome double rainbow in the evening too.