Owens a big boy... and more halloween

My little boy is a big boy now. He is now officially potty trained. He even went to church today in his big boy underpants (with church clothes over top) and stayed dry. We did have to take him to the potty three times. I am so happy. He has been the longest to potty train. Now we have no kids in diapers! What am I going to do now. Maybe it's time for another one... or maybe we will just enjoy this for awhile.Here is Emma at her school Halloween party. The kids and I were at school all day with Noah and Emma having parties. It is going to be crazy next year with three of the kids in school.

Here is Emma after Trick or treating. The kids had fun looking at all their candy and trading what they did not want. We all slept downstairs that night and watched movies. It was the best Halloween ever.

The managers of our apartments are awesome and set up the club house with a fog machine and strobe lights. The kids had a ton of fun.

It took us about 5 minutes to talk the kids into going into this house to get some candy. In the end I think only Noah and Emma went in!

Here is Owen all dressed up. He is so cute!

Here are the kids walking up to grandma's house. They had so much fun!

Here is our dinner table all set to go.

Here is Libbie with her pumpkin sandwich.

The day after Halloween is always fun. We let the kids smash their own pumpkins. Some kids that live next door came over and told us we were the coolest parents ever, and Matt said that he would have to agree.
Owen tried and tried. In the end Matt had to help him.
Emma did a great job and needed no help from mom and dad this year.

Twas the night before Halloween

Here are the kids before we start cutting into the pumpkins. We had a lot of fun!Here is Libbie. All of the kids used their hands to clean out the "guts" this year, something that they would never do before.Owen wanted to do it on his own, but the little safety cutter just couldn't do it.Emma was really proud of her pumpkins guts. She got right in there and cleaned it out.Here is Noah putting some cinnamon in his pumpkin. We also used some all spice and cloves. When we lit them it smelled so good!Here they are all lit up.Matt has never been satisfied with a tea light in a pumpkin. . . he prefers butane :o)Here is the cake I made for our day before halloween party.

The kids had a lot of fun and so did Matt and I. They are growing up and doing so much more on their own. We love having them and it will be a sad day when they aren't carving pumpkins with us anymore.

Here is our little Hannah. She is so tiny we thought that she would fit in our pumpkins. We had to put her in one of the smaller ones. She is about 2.8 lbs now. She is half the size of the other puppies in her litter. She is going to be really small (even for a chihuahua)

A lot of stuff we've been up too!

Emma and Noah just got their school pictures. I think it is so fun to go back and see how much they have grown in the past year!Noah looked like a baby! Here are his pictures K-2nd grade.

The fire department came to our apartments and did a fire safety thing. The kids had fun.

Here is Noah going out the window!

Here is Emma in her flip flops, not the best shoe to have on when climbing out the window!

Here is Matt trying to get out but he was so affraid the kids had to help him :o)

The kitchen filling up with smoke. The little kids were a bit unsure of what we were doing.

Poor Noah, he had to have four teeth pulled because he has no room in his mouth for his grown up teeth. He did really well at the dentist. They love him and talk about him every time we go!

Here is Noah's Family Home Evening craft.

Here is Emma's.

And Libbie's too.

Here are the kids hard at work.

Here is owen and his bat.

Noah and his bat.

Owen and his cookie. He didn't finish frosting it before he was eating it!

Libbie did such a good job on her cookie.

Noah and his cookie.

Hard at work.

Libbie and Owen trying to cut out sugar cookies.

This summer in Washington Mom Walker took me out and showed me how to make earrings. It was so much fun. Since I am in the young womens program at church and young women in excellence is coming up I thought that my project could be jewelry making. I have been twisting and beading like crazy. I have more earrings and necklaces and bracelets than I know what to do with. I love it so much, and I am so happy to have something fun to do. So thanks Mom for starting me on something so fun! Here are a few things I've made.

Our first snow of the season. Here is Noah in mid-air!

Owen wanted to pick up the snow but it was so cold. He wouldn't put on gloves.

Noah did this on his own. We were inside eating breakfast and he was so excited to go and play so we let him. 10 minutes later he came in for a carrot. He is so grown up. This might be the best snowman ever!

The day before the snow came the kids and I made cinnamon rolls. We were hoping to wake up to snow and eat them with hot chocolate for breakfast. It worked out well and the kids had fun helping.

Here is Owen cleaning up. And yes he is in his underwear (we are working on the potty thing)

The kids putting on the brown sugar.

Even the dog got messy! It was a good day.

Matt got me some flowers after a long and hard week (ya I am so lucky) When the girls saw them they said "Dad got us flowers" They got to pick their favorit one and have it in their room



And there is nothing sweeter than a sleeping two year old to end it all :o)