Family Pictures 2017

The awesome Melissa Young took our annual family photos again this year, we love how she captures our kiddos personalities perfectly! 

SO BLESSED!

November 2017

Instead of a Halloween Party, the kindergarten has a Saints party on Nov 1st, All Saints Day. The kids get to dress up like a saint, play games, make a craft, and have some yummy snacks. 

 Scarlett dressed up like Gianna Molla, the patron saint of Baby doctors. She got up and did a cute little presentation! 

 a little polar plunge for November...brrr

 a well dressed sleeper!

spent my birthday surrounded by my favorite people! 

we made Operation Christmas Child boxes to send overseas for Christmas

and got ready for our cousins to visit! 

Alice in Wonderland

This year we choose Alice in Wonderland as our 2017 Halloween costume theme! It was one of very favorites to date! 

October stuff

I struggle with one of my kiddos not loving the learning process like my other two, so I get creative when I can. Since it was nearing Halloween I had the kids make snack bags using all halloween colored snacks and counting out each one to the number each snack was assigned.

We celebrated this amazing guy's birthday

All Patrick wanted was a Sun Devil win for his birthday.....AMAZINGLY he got it! What a super fun game! 

the last two pieces finally got finished to complete the kitchen, our bench cushions and 2 pendant lights over the island. 

We have sweet adoptive pen pals who send the kids holiday cards and treats, Halloween cards arrived with Dairy Queen gift certificates! THE BEST! 

This sweet girl works so incredibly hard at everything she does. It paid off in gymnastics with her moving up a level. We are so proud of her! 

the BEST big sister there ever was

My friend Angela and I went to a Witch party, it was the weirdest thing I have ever been to! HA! 

 Caroline is really a great volleyball player, right now it is her current favorite. 

 Her cute team, Sugar and Spike. Patrick coached again for the second year. 

We made a few Halloween crafts

 Caroline had a Girl Scout Halloween event that the ASU sorority girls put on,

 the littles even got to tag along!

 Patrick took the girls to his schools varsity volleyball game one night instead of having practice, what a FUN coach! They all met up at our house first for pizza and treats. 

 I had a National meeting and was very blessed to win two huge awards.