Since it's Thanksgiving..............

Guess I should post about the last holiday we just had!

I neglected to post pics of my cute kids at Halloween! Halloween was a busy one for us this year, with all three kids now in school (or preschool) we have lots of parties and activities. And to top things all off, I decided to sew the kids costumes this year-----FYI making your own costumes DOESN'T save you ANY money. It does, however, create an addiction to creating and I now find myself looking at fabrics and wondering what I can make next!

Scott and I helped out in both Caden and Sarah's class parties this year. I was actually the room mom for Caden's which was a lot of fun! Caden has such an awesome teacher this year. I just helped out with whatever I was assigned in Sarah's class. It was fun to participate in her first class party.

Caden at his class party.

Sarah really wanted to be a cow girl this year. Her and Hannah's friends all planned on being Strawberry shortcake characters together, but all those who know

Sarah's personality know that once Sarah made up her mind, she wouldn't budge on her decision, despite the plans of all her friends. They all went on as planned and Sarah ended up a cute little cow girl.

I have to admit, I love the way her costume turned out! I made her the skirt and vest.

Can't be a cow girl without your sheep dog by your side. (Shy is a lady bug)

Caden couldn't decide between several different costumes. In the end he settled on a wizard. He went through a really quick phase where he really liked wizards. He i even writing a book about a wizard boy right now. We went to the store together and he picked out the fabric. Grandma Waggoner ended up sewing it though because it was taking me too long to make the girls costumes.

Hannah was thrilled to join in with her friends as Apple Dumplin' (from Strawberry shortcake).

Hannah and Anna (Blueberry muffin)

Hannah had fallen asleep right before trick or treating so she was more of a sour apple!

Blast from the Past!!!!!

I know that a lot of people do "flashback Friday's" on their blogs, only they go way back into the past. I am not as interesting. Before my recent post, I hadn't updated my blog since the spring break nerf battle. It's not that we don't have an interesting life, cuz believe me, we do!

I'll just use my pregnancy as an excuse......this has been my sickest, hardest pregnancy.

Anyhow, my goal is to highlight every month I have missed since March, and I will do that on Fridays! Hopefully I can catch up with the present before baby comes. ( I will reveal the name in a post I am sure to write soon!).

April

Spring is always a really busy time for us. We celebrate Sarah's bday, Hannah's and our anniversary (and St Patrick's day (Sarah's bday) and Easter).

This year Scoot and I went to San Francisco for our anniversary. It was a beautiful place. I found out that I was pregnant right before we went and the sickness came on so early this time so I was sick the last few days. We ended up coming home a day early. Quite honestly, I was missing the kids terribly (maybe because I was feeling so sick, and I think Caden would have loved all the sights we saw).

It was really nice to be with Scott. He truly is my BEST FRIEND! He is my favorite person to be with. I am a lucky girl to have such a great guy!

Some of the fun places we saw. Click on collage to see pics bigger.

Hanah's preschool birthday party

Hannah shares a birthday week with her good friend Anna who is in her preschool class. Since they are so sweet , and love sweets, we did a cupcake theme. Karin made the aprons and I did the invites and hats.

All these cute girls made their own pizzas and ate lots of sweet treat. It was a lot of fun!

Hannah's Birthday wishes......

1.A few weeks before Hannah's birthday we were driving out by the desert and saw some cowboys roping cattle. Hannah was so amazed by the process. When we asked her what she wanted for her birthday, one of her requests was to go and watch the cows get branded. Scott just happens to work with someone who works on a ranch and they were needing someone to help with branding on Hannah's birthday.

We're all about making wishes come true here.

2. Hannah also wanted to go 4wheeling. With the time crunch we were faced with we just went over to Grandma and Grandpa's house (near the branding location) and rode out in their field. Grandpa was nice enough to build up a little bumpy track for the kids to ride on. Hannah thought it was so fun to help with her little shovel.

3. Hannah's 3rd wish (sorry, no picture) was to have a cherry. She is often very random like this. We went out to dinner at red Robin where the y sang to her and gave her an ice cream sundae with a bowl of cherries on the side.

She was a happy little three year old.

True Colors!

My good friend invited us to go along with her to Kuna to take pics of our kids (who'd a thought Kuna would be a good location for a photo shoot). My goal was to try and capture their personalities so I didn't pose them much, I just started shooting away.

Here they are, showing their true colors. I think they turned out pretty dang cute. I am a bit biased though.

P.S. click on collage to see pics bigger

Just a couple more of my favorites

Back to school!!!!!

These two cute kids stared school a couple weeks ago.

The night before school started we had a little fashion show where Sarah and Caden could show off their new clothes for the year. Caden willingly participated in the fun, although not with quite the same enthusiasm as this little kindergartner.

Sarah was totally hammin' it up for the camera, striking pose after pose as if she was on a real fashion runway. I honestly don't know where she gets this stuff!

The kids hopped right out of bed (probably the only day out of the whole year they will get up without me having to drag them out of bed) and got ready for their first day. Caden was so excited to start 2nd grade. He asked me if their would be more complicated math and science. He loves science. He's super excited for a new challenge.

Sarah was excited for school to start back in June. She wanted to skip summer break all together and get on to school. I had to make her a calendar to help keep track of the time because she was so excited.

She went right in to her class with out a problem. I was kind of hoping she would want me to follow her in, but she didn't. She just recently noticed that full day kindergarten is available at her school and asked me why I didn't put her in it, because she would really like to go all day.

When did I tell her she could grow up so fast?

Up, up and away!!!!!!

How do I choose just one?

We took the kids to see the hot air balloons at Ann Morison Park over the weekend. It was a beautiful sight and I am so glad we didn't miss it. We have taken the kids almost every year to this fun event in Boise and planned on it this year but on Friday night, after the kids first week back at school and a late night I didn't think we would get up for it in the morning. Our little Sarah made sure we made it though. She came running in our room at 7AM and said,

" Mommy, Daddy, wake up, did we miss the balloons?"

Our kids NEVER wake up on their own before 8:30, so we knew she must be excited! Scott could not say no, so he decided he'd get up and take her. I didn't want to miss out on seeing the kids faces as they saw such a beautiful sight so we all ended up going. I am so glad Sarah woke us up!

Scott's favorite balloon. He was so offended that it was not mine too. I just couldn't get good pictures of it because it looked so dull against the blue sky, that's all. GO BRONCOS!!!!!!!

There was this whole family of unicyclers at the park and we were all so fascinated by them. Scott decided that he wants us to all learn to ride unicycles because they would take up less room in our garage and it would be easier to fit them in the car.

Later that night we went down to the park to see the balloons lit up in the night.

Sugar and Spice............
By December Caden and Scott will officially be seriously out numbered! We will be adding a little girl to the family. I have to say that while this came as quite a shock, I am so excited for all the cuteness that comes with girls. Because I already have 2 of them, I assumed that another girl wasn't in thecards for us, and Caden wanted a brother so bad, that I assumed that is what we would have.

Caden was quite shocked! It broke my heart to see him cry, but I know that he will be a wonderful brother to his little sisters, all THREE of them.