Sophia's Birthday and Stuff

Sophia with her Cinderella cake, and I guess on your birthday silverware is optional.


The 3 blondies (Aunt Kathy, Sophia, and Cinderella).


Max in Sophia's new princess snuggie from Aunt Donna,Uncle Steve and Heidi.


The family complete with Randy trying on Sophia's Princess Presto's crown.



Last Monday Alex and Max had their rain gutter regatta. They had a good time building and paining them and then raced each other for their first race. Alex won the race, but even so Max took it in stride. They both had a lot o fun.

Last Wednesday

Here's one of the kids in front of part of the lake. (Henry's with me in the pack)


All of us at the end of our little hike.




Here are some photos the kids wanted to include because they took them. (Alex took the middle one, Max did the other two.)

Last Wednesday Alex and Max had the day off school for Veteran's Day. So the kids and I headed out to Beaver Lake for part of the day. We had a lot of fun, tromping through the woods and checking out the (used to be alive, now stuffed)animals inside.

Henry is sitting!

Henry sat by himself Wednesday (and happened to be in the same outfit Alex was in the first day he sat by himself. I remember the picture). He was also up on his hands and knees today but fell as soon as he tried to move. So he has almost begun crawling!


Oh, yeah and it snowed here Friday!

Happy Halloween !

Max, Alex's and Sophia's pumpkins(she said "I want a super spooky one".)





Carving and posing with their pumpkins. You see, Henry had a pumpkin, but the squirrels got to it right away and almost half of the back of it was eaten, so his didn't get carved.


All our trick-or-treaters. It has become traditon that our friend Holly and her daughter, Clari, trick or treat with us most years. So Clari is the rock star in the group. Sophia is Cinderella, Henry is a ghost, Alex is a clonetropper and Max was a stormtropper.

Happy Halloween !

While the big kids were trick-or-treating, Henry was swinging.

Randy's Birthday

Last Friday was Randy's birthday! Now he's 35! We took him out to eat and had angel food cake for desert. The kids made him a birthday sign and here they are with him on his big day.

We also started giving Henry baby biscuits and he LIKES them! We're pretty sure we saw his first temper tantrum when he dropped one and wanted it back.

The last few weeks

Here's a sneak peek at the boys in their Halloween costumes. Just last Monday they had a little party for boyscouts.

We were back in Iowa at the beginning of the month. Randy and I were honored to be Brady's (Nick and Join's new son) godparents!

I got the best present for my birthday- being in Iowa with family! Randy's little brother got married that weekend. Yeah! I didn't get many pictures but here's one of the kids before the wedding.