Girls Night

Little Ash, just snug as a bug in a rug!

Introducing... ANNA!

Olivia's pizza of perfection!

Sage, Lydia, and Kira. I love how happy they are. Lydia just asked me yesterday, "Mom, when are we having another girls night?" I replied, "like a date for me and you?" Matter of factly, Lydia said, "No, like when Sage and Kira and Anna and Olivia come have a sleepover at our house." I guess we need to do it more than twice a year!

This was a spur of a moment date with Ethan and Lydia to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever play. I have to admit, it was pretty great. I cried and really felt the Christmas Spirit. I hope to make it a new tradition to go to a play with my little sweethearts.

Derby at Hollywood Connection

The fun carousal the girls could have gone on ALL night! They loved it.

Ash with her serious face with Grandma Jean.

Who would have thought to have an indoor roller coaster? Genius. As you can tell, the kids couldn't get enough. Elijah, Ethan, and Lydia.

Michelle coaching in her skirt and skates! This was the halftime break for the kids. Olivia taking her cousin, Maya around the skating rink.

This girl takes after her Mom and loves derby! Olivia smiling big. It was fun to watch and cheer them on. I'm sad I didn't get a picture of Vincent, but I'm sure his proud mama has lots!

Everyone loves Anna Banana!

Sweeten Christmas Party

Carson, Nixon and Ethan as Wisemen at the Annual Sweeten Nativity.

Belle just content watching, I tried to make her be an Angel with Ash, but that was a no go!

The beautiful Angels; Sierra, Ashlyn, Lydia, and Abby.

Brig is so animated! Love that kid. Cute cousins.

Cohort Christmas Party 2011

Bridgette and Brent

Libby and Josh

Alisha and her roomie

Matt and Janessa

Brady and Corinne

Me and Jared

Mandee and Jazlyn

Tara and Chris (I was eyeing that hat the whole white elephant party!!) I have to admit that Chris wears it well.

Natalia and Ty

Andrea, me, and Laura. Love them.

Not everyone was able to make it to the Cohort Party, we were missing quite a few. I feel like these girls are my second family! We spend a minimum of 3 hours everyday together in class, plus preparation for presentations and such. I am so blessed to be surrounded by positive people who inspire me to be the best teacher I can be! I heart you all!

Christmas Sing!

Ethan and Lydia just sang their hearts out at their school Christmas sing. I love how they love music, almost as much as Jared and I!!

Ashlyn and Brielle just love to go to E E and Lulu's school. They get to go at least once a week. We make it a priority to get a chocolate milk from the lunchroom. They can't wait to go to school!

Merry Christmas from the Adams kiddos. They are so stinkin' funny. I don't know what we did to deserve such a happy, silly bunch of kids, but I think we'll keep em'!

Gingerbread House Decorating

Costco made the gingerbread house such a delight. This year even the house was all glued together. Simple, easy, very little mess, fun for the kids... that is what I'm talking about. Ethan and Lydia took charge and had a blast decorating. Ashlyn and Brielle were just trying to sneak as much candy as they could.

They did the tree and their gingerbread men all by themselves.

Ash eating a treat.

Geez Mom! Just trying to sneak a "teat." She sure has a big, beautiful smile.

The finished project. We ended up having to throw the house away after a week or so, sad news. The fence slowly disappeared as did any piece of frosting hanging. Any time it was just too quiet in the house, you'd find Ash and Belle sitting on the counter picking off candy. Silly girls.

Thankful for November

Thankful for our Kooky son, always so loving and patient with his sisters.

We had birds that nested in the tree outside of Lydia's window. Jared had a hard time getting it out of the tree when he was putting the Christmas lights on. We enjoyed watching the baby birds eat from their Mama!

A nice Fall day playing in the leaves.

Thanksgiving day feast!

Lydia and Josh.

The wonderful host and hostess.

Hanging out right before Ethan barfed all over. At least he made it over the banister and not on the dinner table. Poor kid slept right through Thanksgiving day.

One of the beautiful fall sunsets. Taken from our front yard!

The bath loving girls. They are so funny in the bath. They put the bubbles on their chin and say, "Look at me, I'm Santa, ho ho ho!" They also love to slide down the back and splash water all over the floor. They are little giggle monsters.

In the month of November, we made 6 pumpkin rolls. The recipe says to beat the eggs for 5 minutes so we all have plenty of turns!

Notice Ashlyn's pretty dress. That was Anna's flower girl dress at our wedding. Such great memories. Ash always has to have her blue apron on. Sis sis usually gets red, this day she had none!

Halloween 2011

Thank you Amy for letting me steal this from your blog! Most of the cohort dressed up for Halloween day. We have a lot of fun learning together!

Jake and Aspen were in town a few weeks before Halloween so we had a fun party a few weeks prior. Ethan was a pea-shooter from Plants vs. Zombies. The cousins always play so good together.

The night before Halloween, Fran and Todd surprised us with their Mario and Luigi costumes. Simply HILARIOUS!

Isn't Granny's mask freaky? It gets me every time. The funniest thing of the night was when Granny said, "I knew that Jared wouldn't dress up." Ha ha. We were dressed like butt-rockers going to a concert!

Rock on!

Oh Saucy sauce. The girls had all of Lydia's old costumes to choose from plus these crayons I bought after Halloween the year before and they chose the crayons. Super easy and cute.

Me and my lovely Grandma. We always stop by so the kids can trick or treat. She always has candy bars and cookies for the kids. They look forward to playing with her wooden blocks.

Boo! Happy Halloween.

The part zombie, part pirate, part skeleton, part vampire and the little mermaid lovin' girl, off to the school Halloween parade.

Ashlyn was too scared to be in the picture with the life size super hero. Our kids love to play with the Mitchell kids across the street.

Brielle the RED crayon! She is super easy going and just goes with the flow. Ashlyn is more specific. Ash always wants the pink sippie cup and wanted the YELLOW crayon costume. "No biggie," thinks Belle.