Bounce!!!

Emily's preschool group had a field trip last week to Bounce, an indoor collection of bounce stuff. The big kids were out of school so they got to go too.

It was fun to watch them get stuck on the Velcro wall. Emily's favorite place was the big slide.

For Humans

Steve here.

I told Emily it was okay to take a drink from a gallon jug of distilled water. She was unsure about drinking from such a strange bottle. I told her, "it's okay, go ahead."

She took a drink and said it tasted good.

"Of course it did, I put drinking water in that bottle. It's drinking water."

"It's just for humans!" she said, "Not for bugs, or kangaroos, or tigers, or other tigers...or lions."

Pinned him....

Carson is really enjoying wrestling.  He has wrestled 5 matches and won 3 of those matches.  Not too bad for his first year.  It is fun to watch him.

Emily put on Carson's headgear and said "Mom, look..."

And that is Carson getting ready to make his 3rd winning pin!  Way to go Carson!

Ward Christmas party...

Last Saturday our ward had a Christmas breakfast.  The wise men came, otherwise known as our Bishopric.

The children acted out the Nativity scene.

We even had the animals in the stable which included our Emily.  She was excited to be a sheep until it was time to be a sheep.  She was finally ok with going on stage if she could be a sheep-lion.  If you notice her hands most of the time are curled like claws.  If you ask her about being a sheep she will correct you that she was a sheep-lion.

The finale...

Christmas Music at RMHS....

Logan had his Holiday Concert last week too.  He looks so handsome in his Tux.  All the choirs sang beautifully!  I love to see my kids in choir as that is where I was in school too!  It was the most fun!

They are singing again....

Last week we had two back to back concerts with Carson & Katie's middle school concert and then Logan's high school concert.  The kids had fun and looked cute in their festive attire.

Carson joined choir second quarter and is loving it!!  

Carson had a blast singing and being upfront with the Santa letters.

A little fun in Sumner...

On November 18th we headed to Washington to spend Thanksgiving with Steve's parents.  The first activity of our trip was to head to the fairgrounds to the Quilt show for the big girls and I.  Steve, Grandpa, and the boys went to the train show.

Zoo.....

We had a great visit to the Point Defiance Zoo in spite of the grey clouds looming overhead. (A corn maze photo snuck into the beginning of the slideshow....oops!)

Playing in the leaves....

The kids had some fun raking leaves at the neighborhood park so they could jump in the piles of leaves.  It was cold but they had fun till the sun went down.

Happy Birthday Jon!!

We miss our son Jonny and we celebrated his birthday on November 9th surrounded by family and close friends.  We ate Jonny's favorite dinner, pizza followed by Jonny's favorite birthday cake, an ice cream cake.

We each wrote a note to Jonny and put it inside a balloon.  We took the helium filled balloons and let them go outside.

Happy Birthday Kristina....

Kristina turned 15 on November 17th.  She requested a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.  I was happy to make those wishes come true.

Zoo Lights...

Saturday night, November 26th we headed back to the zoo to see Zoo Lights.  The Murphy cousins from Utah were staying the night on their way back to California.  The kids had a great time visiting while going around the Zoo.  The lights were amazing!  Most of the animals were not available to see during this event.

Logan, Nathan, Grandpa, and Carson

Emily inside of the Sea Anemone at the play ground in the Zoo.  The kids couldn't see each other the toys very much either but they climbed in and played anyway.  Thanks to Steve's flash on his camera we could get this cute shot.