The Colt Clan

Braxtons Baptism

2009-12-21T15:01:00.000-08:00

Our oldest son just got baptised. Boy do I feel old! He was really nervous and had to breathe in and out ALOT of times! It was cute. We are so proud of him! I wish that I would have been more with it and have gotten a picture of all the people that came to support Braxton and his big day! He felt so good that so many people came to see him. We have such good friends and family. Thank you all for coming! Here are a few pictures of him on his Baptism day.

We got one picture of him and some friends. (Left to Right) Hunter, Braxton, Kaylee, Taylor and Haydon.
Wow they grow up fast!

Halloween - Better late than never!

2009-12-06T20:35:00.000-08:00

I know that it is almost Christmas, but I have been obviously slacking in the blogging department!! I am not good at keeping up on my posts, and I have almost given up on this whole blog thing all together!! However, my little sister has talked me out of it, so here is my attempt at starting to catch up. Here is our Halloween pics. and our pumpkin carving.

This is my lovely Kaylee aka Hannah Montana.
This is the cutest little dragon ever, aka Kohen.

This is Wolverine aka Braxton.
And last but not least my pretty Snow white aka Ella.

Kohen love love loved playing in the pumpkin goo. He thought it was the best thing ever. It did help entertain him while we helped the kids carve thier pumpkins!
Kaylee is getting the carving party started!!
Nate had to scoop out all the guts because I was not very good at it! He could get those babies clean. The ones I started had all the nasty hangy strings in them still. Oh well, that's the husbands job right!! :)
I had to put at least one picture of me in there to prove I was invloved! lol It seems that the wife's are always the ones taking the pictures and are never the ones in them. My contribution was the cutting. I did all the faces and Nate did all the degutting!

Here are their finished projects. They all picked what they wanted on the front, and helped draw them on first. Ella wanted a sun.

Braxton wanted a bat, which he drew all by himself!!

And Kaylee wanted a funny face which she helped draw also. It was fun, but I can't wait until the can cut them out themselves!! lol

Misc. Days

2009-10-29T21:58:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to put on a few fun pics of what my kids do. Currently this is the girls favorite thing to do, push Kohen around in the doll strollers. He fits just perfect. Kinda snug so he won't fall out. And he LOVES it! They won't be able to do it much longer so I say what the heck!

Kohen has officially figured out how to get the chair out from the table and push it to where he wants to get something. He has learned this of course by watching his older siblings!! Now I have to keep my ears open to make sure he doesn't go in there and climb on the counters! He makes me so nervous! He's a busy boy for sure!
Kaylee and Ella love to make marker swords and towers. I kind of remebering doing this as a kid as well. But here they are in all their glory with their marker swords and tower!

And last but not least. Kohen and the Rock Band drums. He looks like a natural don't ya think?! He thinks that he needs to bang on them like everyone else. And he does. We almost can't get them out when he's awake because we can't really play it! I just think he looks so darn cute here! :)

Fun at play

2009-10-29T21:49:00.000-07:00

So this is a glimps at what my kids like to do when I am preoccupied with a project, or cleaning, or just not paying attention to what they are doing!! This is their "fort" they said. We had strict orders not to wreck it. It is made out of every pillow and every blanket out of all the bedrooms, minus bedspreads. It is on the landing between the 2 levels stairs. Before I knew what they made Braxton came down stairs and said "this is the funnest day ever." They were sad to have to pick it up when the night was over. They wanted to sleep there. But that made me nervous!! Here are different views of their "awesome fort!"

Linder Farms Ward Party

2009-09-19T12:23:00.000-07:00

The people that own Linder Farms are in our ward and were SO KIND to share it with us for a ward party! They kids thought that it was the funnest thing ever. They did not want to leave!! This was the Hay ride.Braxton, Kaylee, Ella, and Kohen on my lap.

Nate and Kohen. He didn't want to sit the whole ride. It was hard to contain him. He wanted to walk around.

This is Kaylee and Braxton in the hay maze.
Ella and Kohen in the hay maze.
Ella in the hay maze.

Braxton and Kaylee on the cow train.
Ella on the cow train.They had these swings behind this gate that they didn't have running for this night and Kohen wanted in them soooo bad. This is him trying to fit through the rails to get into the swings. It was really funny!

Labor Day Weekend

2009-09-14T11:57:00.000-07:00

For Labor Day weekend we decided to do something layed back but out of the house. We went with our friends the Madisons to Swan Falls to have a picnic. They had some rocks on the side of the hill that the kids loved climbing on. They found a couple lizards too. They thought that was pretty cool!! It was a fun relaxing day.
Cute Nevaeh eating a cheeto from lunch.

Ella and Aliya were being adventure some and were looking at the water. Too cute!

Kaylee was juming off the rocks.

Jay was helping the kids climb higher and also posing for the camera like everybody else!! :)

This was Kohen and Navy thinking that they were big kids and wanted to climb where the big kids were.

Ella and Aliya trying to figure out how to climb rocks in flip flops!

You can barely see, but to the right of my cute kaylee posing for the camera, Hayden was crawling through a little crack that went from the front to the back. He was the only one who braved it, with a bit of daring from his dad!! :) Good job Hayden. There were a ton of spider webs in it, I wouldn't have gone!! :)

There is Braxton posing for us.

Kaylee, Hayden and Braxton.

First day of school

2009-09-11T12:00:00.000-07:00

The first day of school is always an exciting day. Kaylee was a bit nervous. Once she met the teacher and saw all the kids that she didn't know she didn't want to go anymore. Which I thought was wierd cuz she is my outgoing girl that loves to make new friends. However she did survive and hasn't complained, so it couldn't have been too bad.Braxton new what to expect and was good to go. Which made me a bit sad. Once they grow up and everything is "cool" they don't need you quite as much anymore and makes me wish that time would slow down a bit.!

Here they are all excited and ready to pose for me!! I love it. :)

For my Braxton

2009-09-10T11:12:00.000-07:00

Braxton has always thought that I only painted things for the girls, so he asked if I would paint him a Pokemon canvas. So here it is. He painted the little pokeballs next to the name of the characters. He thought that was pretty cool.

Baking Soda

2009-08-19T12:38:00.000-07:00

Kohen loves the lazy susan because it's the only cubbard that isn't child locked. This time he got into it while I was upstairs and dumped the baking soda everywhere. My poor little boy is crying cuz I told him "no no". He just started whaleing! I felt really bad afterwards!! And since this picture he has done it 3 more times. I always say, it's a good thing he's cute!! :)

Colt Family camp out!

2009-08-17T09:33:00.001-07:00

Nates family went up to Warm Lake for a family campout. And I must say, it was a very good spot for a big group to camp!! We had our own private camp area with a pavilion to eat at in the middle of the camp sites. It also had a volleyball area just for us. It was an excellent spot. Braxton caught his very first fish. He was excited!!

There was also a rope swing at the swimming area. The kids loved it. It was really shallow at the end, so the older kids had to be careful. However it entertained them for a long time. Kaylee wouldn't do it, she had to be handed into Uncle Patrick and she doesn't like her head going under, so she was then carried back up. It was kinda defeating the purpose of the whole idea!! My kids don't love water in there face!!

Braxton is getting braver though, and once he finally tried it, he loved it!!

Kohen loved just throwing the sand all over!! Just put him in the sand with a plastic spoon, and he's ready to go!! lol

This is my kids just playing in the water.

The first morning was kinda chilly, so the kids helped Grandpa gather wood. But to me it seemed more like they were watching Grandpa gathering wood!!

Kohen didn't sleep well AT ALL!! So we will see if we make it next year.! lol

You gotta love popsicles!

2009-07-22T15:20:00.000-07:00

We LOVE summer! And during the summer what would we do with out popsicles?!

Ella and Kohen sporting the chocolate push up face!! It looks quite nice on them I must say!! :)

They were so sticky after these we had to hose them off!! Literally!

4th of July

2009-07-22T15:05:00.000-07:00

My Camera ran out of batteries before the fun stuff, but here are a few pictures of us during the day of the 4th. My parents brought my kids some silly string, so here is Nate covered in it. He's always the good sport that gets all the tricks pulled on.

Nate stole it and tryed to get Kaylee back. But it didn't last for long!!

There's Ella with good old pop its!! Every kids favorite!

Kaylee and Braxton striking a pose.

We also went to the parade in down town Boise. (For those of you who didn't go, you didn't miss much!) It was HOT and super short.!

This is Kohen for the 2 seconds that he actually sat down and watched!

Ella and Braxton were trying to take a nap. The heat was taking away all of their energy!

And here they are patiently waiting for the parade to start. All in all, it was a nice relaxing 4th!

Bedroom touches

2009-06-29T21:18:00.000-07:00

I finally got Kohen's room painted. Most of you have seen it, since I painted it in my last house, but I'm gonna post it anyway. It was all inspired by pottery barn. Everybit! The cork board, the canvas's, and hat hanger were in the magazine. I made and painted my accessories to match. I love that magazine for the ideas!!

This is a shelf that will go on the wall. I made to of them, Nate just needs to hang them for me.

The top canvas I copied just like the one from the magazine, but the bottom one I kinda put together myself.
This is what the walls look like.

I pained these 4 canvas's to look like the one's in potterybarn also. The first picture are the one's in the magazine and the second one are the one's I painted and hung in my girls room.

Gotta love garage sales!

2009-06-26T12:38:00.000-07:00

I don't go garage selling, because I know I would find too many deals and just want to spend too much money, so I just stay home!! But my parents found this cute horse at one for 3 bucks. Kohen and Ella absolutley love it! Thanks mom and dad!

Meridian Dairy Day Parade

2009-06-26T12:18:00.000-07:00

For the past 3 years we have gone with two families to the Meridian Dairy Day Parade. The Dicksons and the Fischers. It's about the only parade I can drag Nate go to. It was raining during the parade this year, but my kids LOVED it anyways. We would just put our hoods on when it rained, and then pulled them off when it stopped. I had to keep reminding Nate that we were building memories sitting in the rain! It was worth it, look at the smiles!! :)

Braxton, Ella, Kaylee, Haylee, Brooklynn, Lexi.

Ashlee, Gerritt, and Ethan Dickson.

Kathy and Olivia Fischer.

Waiting for candy!!

Eating candy!

He was a good sport!! He sat in his stroller the whole time. I thought for sure he wouldn't!

Nate hiding under the umbrella. (My camera is slowly dieing, that's why it's 2 colors.)

The End! :)

My girls new look?

2009-06-08T14:16:00.000-07:00

My girls LOVE to dress up and their favorite items to put on are Kaylee's old dance clothes. However, now they have added boots to their favorite dress up outfits. Which in some cases the boots work great, like with a cute dress or skirt, or jeans even. But with this outfit I feel that it makes them look like "toddler skanks." I'm laughing histarically as I type this. But I'm a little embarrased to have them run out in our front yard in these outfits. The outfits alone don't bother me, but with the boots I'm not so sure! What do you think?

Two big milestones!

2009-06-08T14:03:00.001-07:00

Our big Kohen is now walking. And boy does he love it. Just walking around the house entertains him now. You could tell that he feels so big. It's quite nice because I was worried about his little knees getting all scraped up this summer crawling around outside! Time flies! What comes next!?!

And our other milestone is that Ella is finally potty trained!! I'm not sure that I should be posting a picture of my child on the toilet, but here it is! It's so nice to have just one child in diapers! GO ELLA!!

Braxton lost another tooth

2009-04-28T12:16:00.000-07:00

He's lost his 3rd tooth. It has been loose for at least a month and last night it was hanging by a teeny corner. Nate finally helped him get it all the way out at 10 p.m., yes 10. Two hours past his bed time. He kept getting out of bed saying "feel it now, feel it now." Crazy kid. It's all about getting his name on the tooth chart at school!!

Who wants something?

2009-04-22T20:43:00.000-07:00

One of my friends did this on her blog, and I was one of the 5 to get in on it- so now it's time for me to repost it on my blog. I'm excited to see what she makes me and I hope people want something that I would make!
Here is the deal: The first five people to comment on this post will get something made by me. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make. ( but I will try hard to make something you will like)
2- What I make will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year.
4- You have no clue what it's going to be.
5- I reserve the right to do whatever I want!
The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must re-post this on your own blog and offer the same deal to 5 of your own lucky blog readers.
So, the first 5 people to leave a comment telling me they are in, win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it. Let the games begin!
Disclaimer - I was reluctant getting involved in this, being greedy and all. I wanted something from my friend because I've seen what she makes, and I love it all. So I'm kinda of nervous, but I'm excited too!!

A bit of an accident!

2009-04-22T20:26:00.000-07:00

Because we have no grass in our back yard yet, the kids love to go out and dig. Kaylee was shoveling along, not watching where she was swinging the shovel of course, and smacked Braxton right on the top of the nose. It gave him a bit of a black eye, which doesn't show up here really, and his cut was oosing blood pretty good. I didn't think to take a picture until a day later. Needless to say, I bought them little tiny kid shovels that they are only allowed to use!!

Kaylee's Barbie House

2009-04-21T21:21:00.000-07:00

I really wanted Nate to build Kaylee a barbie house for her birthday that we could have forever and pass down and so forth. However, Nate's ever so nice dad built it for us instead. He did such an awesome job!! My pictures don't do it justice!! It has room dividers that aren't in it in this picture, so that all the levels have two rooms. If you pull up on the chimney it's an attic/storage space. He put vinyl shingles on the roof too. He put alot of work into it and we are very grateful for it! My girls absolutely LOVE it! Thanks Ted for all your hard work.

Easter Morning

2009-04-21T21:14:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pictures of our kids on Easter Morning.

Our darn camera is going out, but here is Kohen munching on yummy candy.
And then the three older kids with their baskets.

Chuck-E-Cheese

2009-04-15T17:57:00.000-07:00

Because we didn't do a friend Birthday Party for our kids this year, we told them that they could pick something fun to do as a family, and Kaylee chose Chuck E Cheese. We had to post pone it for a few weeks which made Kaylee sad, so to make her ok with it we told her she could pick one friend to bring. She chose Amelia Sommercorn. She lives around the corner and was in Kaylee's dance class last year. This is Her and Kaylee with Chucky.Braxton is playing a game. I told him to smile for the camera, but as you can see, he couldn't take his eyes off the game!!
This is Ella in the big truck ride. However, she only wanted to sit in it! She wouldn't let us put any coins in it because it scared her!
And cute little Kohen strapped in his high chair so I didn't have to chase him around. There were so many people there he would have got trampled on!!
We had some friends meet us there, which made it extra fun for my kids!! So here is Haydon and Aliya with Kaylee and Amelia smooshed in the monster truck ride. Thanks for coming Madisons'!

Setting our frogs free!

2009-04-07T10:56:00.000-07:00

Braxton's kindergarten class (last year) learned about frogs and watched them change from tad poles to frogs. Once they were transformed his teacher gave them away to who ever wanted them. For anyone that knows me I'm antipets, however I thought, they are free and heard from my sister in law that they are low maintenance. Little did I know that I really had a different frog! They have grown to big for our tank and the tank needs cleaned more than I want to clean it, so we talked to kids into setting them free into their "natural environment". AKA the pond in our old neigborhood. So here are some pictures of us letting them go!

Braxton and I being silly.

This is Kohen asleep in the car missing out on all the excitment!

We were all trying to skip rocks.

Bye Bye frogs, you won't be missed, I mean we will miss you!! :)

One last good bye before we let them go!

Just some random pictures!

2009-04-02T21:19:00.000-07:00

I don't know about anyone else, but I love taking pictures of my cute family! And I don't take nearly enough! I also love looking at pictures, so I just wanted to post some cute random and silly pictures that I've taken recently!This is Ella with her puckered up kissing lips. Her lips never close. She keeps them cracked open like this. They are nice and wet too!! :)

This is just cute little Kohen!

Nate with Braxton and Kaylee before bed one night.

Me and Ella with our stylein' dress up glasses on!

Braxton saying "Take a picture of me", and then making a silly face. My kids always want me to take pictures of them everytime the camera is pulled out so that they can see themselves on the camera screen afterwards, gotta love digital cameras!

I just thought this was super cute! Gotta love those girls!

How sweet is this picture? They got these silly hats from Krispy Kreme and wanted a picture with them on. They posed themselves. I thought it was sweet!

New Glasses

2009-04-02T21:11:00.000-07:00

My Braxton got glasses. The poor guys has what they call "Lazy eye". Which I learned was inherited by my mother. He can see perfectly out of one eye, and pretty much not at all with his other. I feel so bad that it took us this long to find it out. His good eye has compensated for the eye that doesn't work so he hasn't complained really. However it still broke my heart to have just barely found out. However, he does look very handsome in glasses I must say!

Toilet Paper

2009-03-24T12:59:00.000-07:00

This is what happens when I forget to shut the bathroom door!! :)

......but don't worry, we make our kids clean up after themselves!!

I was of course kidding! This was a different day that the door was once again left open! Who would think that the bathroom was such a fun place?!

Ella's Makeup!!

2009-03-19T08:38:00.000-07:00

Ella was being so quiet one day. And we all know that quietness usually means they are doing something they aren't supposed to be! And look what Ella was doing. Her makeup all by herself. And mascara taboot! She's a professional wouldn't you think. She so nicely dressed herself in nonmatching clothes too. I screamed at first and then just had to laugh of course! And told her she looked so pretty so I wouldn't hurt her feelings!! Kids make life less boring that's for sure!! :)

My sweet little Kohen

2009-03-19T08:27:00.000-07:00

Kohen had the flu on his birthday. And not just a fever, he threw up for 7 days. It was aweful! His 1st birthday was right in the middle of it too. So this is a picture of him opening a few gifts for his birthday. Good thing he's too little to even know or care!

This was Nate and Kohen. They had the flu together and Kohen would just lay there and not even move. I put him on our bed and he just layed his head on Nate forever. It was sweet and sad at the same time!

After looking through my other kids pictures I realized that I have no pictures of Kohen in the tub. I have a picture of everyone else as babies in the tub, but not Kohen, so here it is!! :) This is one of those classic pictures that you must have of every child, right?!

And the dice. Kohen, like all babies, puts anything and everything in his mouth. But for some reason he LOVES these huge plastic dice. The ones from Old Navy. I'm sure all of you either have one, or have seen them. The ones in the quarter machines. I hate those things! It's hilarious to see those huge dice in his mouth. If my kids get them out and leave them on the floor he darts for them. What a funny kid!

Cousins

2009-03-19T08:21:00.000-07:00

Every time cousins come to visit I forget to bring my camera where ever we go. So these are a few pictures of the last day they were here! My kids absolutley love their cousins and want to spend every waking minute with them. The ones in town and out of town!

This is Kaylee and Chloe flashing their lovely polly pockets!

This was Ella playing with Brytan outside. I didn't get Brytan Because my camera card was full. :(

And last but not least Braxton with Jonah being "cool!"

Rewind!!

2009-03-19T08:12:00.000-07:00

Kaylee's recital was clear in December, but I never got these few pictures posted. But even though it's a little late, I have to so show everyone how cute they are!!
After going to my neices recital, I've learned that it's an unspoken rule that the dad gives the daughter flowers after the recital. Which what dad wouldn't want to do that anyways right!? So here's Nate with Kaylee.

This is Kaylee back stage waiting to go out and dance. She is supposed to be an iceskater. She had little iceskate covers that went over her tap shoes. Isn't she a doll!!

Our New Home!!

2009-03-10T15:14:00.000-07:00

I have had many people ask me to post pictures of our new house, so here they are. I just quickly took a few pictures of the down stairs, so you can get the an idea of what it is like. This is obviously the front of the house!

This is the kitchen, and the only reason it is painted already is because my nice friends Callie and Carla came and helped me bust out the kitchen before we moved in.

This room is the next that will be painted!! I wish that I could just do it all at once, but slowly, one by one my house will be how I want it!! ( Just in time for me to want to change the first things I've done I'm sure!!)

This is looking from the family room to the front door. Just on the right is the stairs, and on the other side of the stairs is the living room.

This is the living room, once again very plain, but honestly, I have no clue what to do in here, so until I figure something out, It will remain that way!

This is the view looking from the front door.

So that's it. We really miss our old neighborhood and house, but we are looking forward to making this our new home!

Braxton's New Room

2009-03-09T11:54:00.000-07:00

On this wall Nate is going to make a skate board

Shelf. It will look pretty neat once it is made, but

we'll see how fast that project will get done! It's

not quite at the top of the list! :)

Nate made the magnet board, and I made rock

magnets to match the colors in his bed spread.

It's pretty simple, but I think that it turned
out ok!

This was Braxton's room before we painted it!
We rearranged the bed a little, and I think it
looks alot better!

Finally, some more pictures!!

2009-02-06T21:24:00.000-08:00

So this whole blog thing has brought a lot of things to my attention. One that I'm not so good at keeping it up. And two I don't nearly take enough pictures! So since I haven't posted in a long time I decided to just add some random things, since nothing super fun or exciting has gone on! (And maybe so people will stop yelling at me to update my blog.) I'M SORRY!!

One morning Nate got his hair wet in preparation for going to work. Right after he got it wet he got a phone call from work and ran down to the computer to fix an issue. As he was typing away I came into the office to ask him something and had to laugh at his hair (of course), but when I felt it, it had dried that way. Which made me laugh even harder, so I had to take a picture and post them. I told him he is my Einstein at work!!

Braxton finally lost his second tooth. The anticipation was too much. It was loose, but not as loose as the first tooth he lost. But in his 1st grade class it is soooo exciting to loose a tooth so that you can write your name on a tooth hanging in his class room. So one night in bed he wiggled and pulled that thing until he got it out just to do the tooth task in class the next day. However when I picked him up for school that day I asked him if he wrote his name on the tooth and guess what. He forgot to do it. After all that pain of wiggling it out early - I had to laugh.

Kaylee is my big Kohen helper. I am constantly telling her to put him down. She can't hold him enough. And when she's not holding him she is asking me if she can hold him. So this is a pic. of her carring him around. Now the pic. on the right is what she sneaks up and puts on pretty much every day. The thing around her head is a scarf she got from a b-day party, the skirt is from her dance recital outfit, and the leotard is from dance class. I pretty much wash this outfit more than any clothes she has because she won't ever take it off.

My little Ella loves to help Kohen, especially when it comes to feeding him. I can't turn my head for 2 seconds before she has grabbed the baby spoon and is shoving food down his mouth. He doesn't seem to mind. However most of the food ends up on his shirt when she so nicely helps!! She keeps us laughing daily, she's our fun little girl.

Kohen was so interested in this doll one day. He crawled up to her and was just starring into her face. It was the funniest thing ever! He just kept smiling at her with his face super close to hers. I had to take a picutre.

The picture on the left is of Kaylee, Guiliana and Chloe. They have a lot of fun together! And on the right is Ella and Gabe playing together at Grandma and Grandpa Simmons house the day after Christmas.

Here are just a few pictures from Christmas morning! The kids are opening some gifts and then some are of Kaylee and Ella in the dresses that came in Ella's dress up trunk.

Candy Trains and Snow Days!

2009-01-02T20:58:00.000-08:00

Since we moved I've been absolutely horrible about my blog. Even before we moved, I got so wrapped up into the packing and all that I've fallen way behind!! So here are a few new things to add just to get me started again!!
We have had so much snow and the kids have LOVED it!! I hate driving in it, but it is so pretty, and I kind of started to enjoy my daily shoveling, believe it or not! Here are some pictures of the kids playing while I shoveled away. Kaylee was a trooper and pulled Ella around in the sled forever. She would do it longer than Braxton would. She is a good big sister to Ella!

We have started a family tradition of making Christmas trains every year out of candy. I made them every year growing up in young womens and thought that my kids would enjoy making them, and they do. They have to remind me every year to get with it and go buy all the candy to make them. They usually end up eating more than they put on their trains!! It is a yummy activity! :)

My Pillow Sham

2008-11-17T10:16:00.001-08:00

I know that for most this isn't much to look at, but I'm proud of my self. I here and there try to be crafty and sew things on my own, and this one turned out ok, and I don't think it will fall apart. I finally put Ella in Kaylee's room and got them matching bed spreads (which I also made by buying one duvet cover, picking it apart and making 2 out of it.) So the fabric I used for the pillow shams was from her old duvet cover. It was pretty simple, I just made it up as I went, but none the less I was proud of myself.

The Stool

2008-11-17T10:05:00.000-08:00

Ella has figured out that she can get the stool from the bathroom, which is for my kids to use to wash their hands because they can't reach the sink, and take it any where in the house that she thinks it might come in handy. In this case it was to reach the cookie dough out of the bowl because I told her no more. I have many times opened the pantry door and there the stool is sitting on the floor. Which of course means that she was trying to reach some sort of snack when I wasn't paying attention. We are also semi working on trying to get rid of her binki. She is only supposed to have it at nap and bedtime. But that is not ok with her, so there has been many times that she has come walking into the room with her binki in the middle of the day and I always say "Ella, who got you your binki?" And most of the times she says "I did." Because she gets out the stool and gets it down all by her self. I guess maybe the solution to all of this is to put the stool up too? :)

Trick or Treat

2008-11-02T19:56:00.001-08:00

This year we got invited to 3 different Halloween parties, so my kids got to dress up quite a bit. Because of this they felt the needed to change what they were going to be almost every time. For Trick or treating, Braxton was a ninja, Kaylee was a cheerleader, Ella was a purple dragon, and Kohen just got carried on the front pack carrier. Also the last 3 years, our good friends, the Fischers, have come to our house and gone trick or treating with us. Her girls were Sleeping Beauty (Alexis), Wonder woman (Brooklyn), and a cute little flower (Olivia). My kids loved having their friends to walk around with. It made it that much more fun and exciting.

For the Halloween Parties that we went to Kohen was a spider, Ella was Minnie Mouse, Kaylee was Jasmin, and Braxton was Spider Man.

Right before we were turning the corner of our street, 3 houses down from ours, Ella got a burst of energy ran to catch up to everyone else. As she went to run she tripped on her little Dragon feet and fell straight on her face in the middle of the street. It was so sad. She cried pretty loud but recovered quickly. These are the scrapes that she got. Her "trick or treat battle wounds." But the candy was all worth it, right?!

My Little Cow Girls!!

2008-10-29T21:39:00.000-07:00

My older brother Brett and his wife threw their daughter a western birthday party. He brought his horses into their back yard and let all the kids have rides. My girls could not get enough rides. They would have lived on the horses if they could. There however is one thing missing from these pictures. Braxton, he was scared to death of them. He wouldn't even come outside. In fact he was in the basement as far away as he could get. He was so scared I didn't even push the issue. But with my girls, I think I have some natural born cow girls!!

Pumpkin Decorating

2008-10-29T12:32:00.000-07:00

We finally painted our pumpkins last night. After much begging from the children we finally got it done. We have been letting the kids paint their pumpkins instead of carving them because they can do it all by themselves. They don't really paint faces on them either, they just paint them however they want, but they have fun doing it. We love fall and all the activities that come with it.

Preschool field trip

2008-10-15T09:09:00.000-07:00

We are doing a preschool co op with kaylee and some kids in our neighborhood this year. She loves it, but still is wondering why she can't go on the bus with Braxton. They want to grow up too fast. I need to invent some growth potion to slow down our childrens growth or something. :) Anyways....This is our field trip to the pumpkin patch. They had fun.

Braxtons first lost tooth

2008-10-15T08:58:00.000-07:00

Braxton has finally lost a tooth. This day has been a long time coming. He is so excited and lately this new news is the first thing he tells anyone we see. It has been a few weeks since it happened, but because of his excitement I decided we'd post it. However he was not as lucky as the neighbor girl. The tooth fairy gave her 2 dollars for her tooth, and he only got 1. :) Congratulations Braxton. You are growing up too fast!!

Kaylee's Shiner

2008-10-07T13:18:00.001-07:00

Kaylee and Ella were jumping on the trampoline together the other day, wonderfuly entertaining each other when they jumped up and bashed heads. This is what became of it. Kaylee's first black eye. Not as bad as some, but it's worse than the picture shows.

I've finally done it!

2008-10-02T18:46:00.000-07:00

I've always said I was going to start a blog, but sitting down and actually doing it is another story!! But my good old friend Kari came over today and helped get me started. Now I'll I have to do is keep up on it! I know this is short, but I will hopefully get on the ball and keep this up!! Yeah me! Thanks Kari.