November

Busy and beautiful, November has been a good month.  Cam learned out to do laundry and stole the show at Show and Tell time during PE.

We played with crazy straws, stuck things to contact paper and tried to make bouncy balls with borax (it failed).  Oh, and Cam FINALLY lost his first tooth!

These were all the random pictures from my tablet. It's handy to have about and to post pictures directly to Facebook but it does make my blogging a little tricky.

I am hoping that we can have a slow and relaxing December but that will be a big challenge. I'll let you know how we do.

Speaking of letting you know, my desire of this blog is to keep grandparents up to date with the kids but also to have a record of our lives for my children and their children.  Just wondering who, out there, is reading this. Leave a post if you are.

To my kids: As we close in on Thanksgiving, I want you to know that you are the light of my life. I am so very grateful that Jesus blessed me with such fun, energetic, healthy and beautiful babies.  Thank you for being my sweet children and making my life full beyond measure.  ~Love, Mom

Better sit down. This is gonna be good!

Oh my. We had family pictures taken last week from our dear, sweet friend and Pastor's daughter Payton. Here are some of my favorites. Well, except for one where you could see a major belly pooch of mine, they are all my favorites. After pictures, even Bren said it was pretty fun. Payton is quite the creative and spunky gal. We are so very blessed by her friendship (she is after all, Cam's best friend) and that she shared her God given talent with us, giving us these wonderful memories.

 See a few more here on Payton's blog.

Seriously, some wonderful fun!

Play, Learn and Work

 My sweet little children needed an activity to keep them busy on a cold day recently. We broke out the recycled cans, magnets and other fun items and the kids had fun. Cam made this "robot" for me.

 

Cait really thinks she's a big girl.  Do Not call her little!  

She even insists on serving herself breakfast!

 The girls helped me process a huge amount of mint from our garden.  And Cait dressed up in her pony dress and cowgirl boots from Granny!

 Great Gramma (my Gramma) has been teaching the kids art again.  This is our third project this semester!

 What a blessing for us to spend time with my Grandparents and for the kids to learn from a talented artist!

 Bren goes to our old PE group and the three littles go to a group that is closer. We are joined there by cousins Tae and Hinny.  It's PE + Legos! (and sometimes art and science)

 We love it when the UPS man brings up our Amazon orders. Usually the kids have fun with the bigger boxes but Lily had a blast with this smaller one.  She is such a stinker!

 And my last picture (see the boy's artwork on the wall?), Cait and Lily wanted to help me scrub stains on laundry. My girls are such big helpers!!!