Landon is 7!

 Happy birthday to our big 7 year old!  SEVEN years old.  I just can not believe it.  Landon is looking and acting more grown up every day.  He is still the sweetest boy around with a heart of gold.  I just can't get enough of him.  I would have loved to keep him home with me all day to celebrate but he was excited to go to school and share his birthday treats!  Arin bought Landon the pictured shirt and tie before school and he insisted wearing it on his special day.  It made him look more adorable than ever.  I panicked a little when I realized the tie was a real tie and I didn't know how to tie it.  Saved by Google yet again!

 He enjoyed his special birthday treat before school!

 So excited to open presents!  Love this little boy to pieces!

Harvest and Celebration.

We went to the farm for the weekend so Ryan could help with harvest and we could have a little birthday celebration with Landon.  Ryan usually tries to get back to the farm to help with harvest for at least one weekend so it seems as though we have celebrated quite a few birthdays with Landon there.  Sue had got Landon a Vikings cake and he thought that was pretty awesome!

 Who doesn't love a little birthday cake?

The kids and I entertained ourselves with riding with Ryan, Gary and Sue.  The kids sure thought they were "helping!"  I am glad they get to experience a little bit of farm life!  Landon spent the most time "helping" and Kadence had the most fun playing on the walkie talkies!

 Grandma was driving tractor in this picture and one of the kids was with her, hard to tell.

 He puts people under anesthesia and combines corn…all in a few days work.

I really wish I would have had my camera for these pictures but I guess some shots from my phone are better than nothing!  It sure was a good weekend at the farm even if we hardly saw Ryan!  The kids had a lot of fun with grandma and papa!

Just a cute blurry shot of my little Eskimo.  Had to include it!

Halloween 2013.

The kids had a great time trick-or-treating around our neighborhood.  There were a ton of people out and they had a blast seeing all the costumes.

We snapped a picture of just some of the neighborhood kiddos.  It is crazy how many young kids there are in our neighborhood.  After we were done trick-or-treating we came back to our warm house and handed out candy to a few of the later trick-or-treaters.  I think Landon has just as much fun handing out the candy as he does getting it!  And…now we have a bunch of candy that we don't need and definitely won't let our kiddos eat.  At least it was fun!!

Kindergarten Pumpkin Painting.

 Kadence had a pumpkin painting party at her school and Kenzie and I were lucky enough to join her.  It was really fun to see her in her element and how much she enjoys Kindergarten.  I had brought a little pumpkin for Kenzie to do hoping it would make it easier for me to help Kadence which worked out pretty well.  She was dressed up as Cinderella for their "storybook dress up day."  It was pretty cute to see Cinderella in her paint shirt creating a masterpiece.  Love her so much!

Spooktacular Carnival.

 We got our cute little witch, Franky (Monster High), and Optimus Prime all dressed up for an early Halloween carnival at Veterans Memorial Arena.  It was a great way to get out of the house on a Sunday after another weekend with undesirable weather.  The kids were excited to wear their costumes since they are not allowed to dress up for school.

The carnival started out with a little "haunted" maze.  Then we moved on to the face painting.  Definitely amateur but fun nonetheless.

 The kids decorated and then ate their pumpkin sugar cookies.  I think this was Kenzie's favorite part!

 We had to wait in line for a long time for some games and a visit with the witch.  Luckily the kids were entertained with a hockey practice!

We ended with a quick picture with the witch and a bag of treats!  All ready for halloween!

Somedays...

Somedays there is just nothing better then curling up with your baby and a blanket on the trampoline…

and then falling asleep on the couch.  It is extremely unusual for any of our kids to fall asleep anywhere but their beds so obviously she wasn't feeling very well.  It was adorable nonetheless and I enjoyed not having to fight her to get her to go to sleep.  Precious.

Pumpkin Painting and Cookie Making.

As another colder, rainier than normal October weekend was upon us, I decided to start our Halloween activities for something to do.  For the last few years we have painted our pumpkins instead of carved them.  The kids (even Kenzie) can do their own pumpkins totally independent and have so much doing it.  We will save carving for when they get a little older and can actually participate.

 Normally we area able to paint our pumpkins outside but the weather was too bad for that this year.  I think Kenzie had the most fun painting her pumpkin.  It she used every color and mixed them all together which turns into a pretty gray color.  I think she was just excited to do it all by herself!

Kadence also had fun painting her pumpkin and used A LOT of paint as well.

Landon is much more organized about his painting.  He doesn't use very many colors and always tries to make some sort of picture on it.

After pumpkin painting was done we made some yummy Halloween cut out cookies.  It is quite the project with 3 kids helping but they had fun and the cookies sure were yummy!  Here's to hoping we have some nicer fall weather soon...