And now for October

I just really want to get caught up before Christmas pictures start coming out!!! So here's October!! :)

Grandma Sally and I took Laina to a Start the Music! event put on by the St. Paul. Chamber Orchestra. First there were things beforehand: facepainting, coloring activities, to make a frog to eat bugs, try out some musical instruments from the bass family, musical leap pads, etc. Then after that we listened to a woman read a book while some musicians played music with it. Laina really loved it. She's still singing the song. :)

 A balloon with a musical note inside

Making the frog that eats the bugs

Where all the activities were

Coloring! One of Laina's favorite things to do.

Liana making her kazoo

 Laina opening her presents from her Grandma Sally.

 We went to a park and Melissa met us here with her kids. It's a really cool park. It has the little kid section which is where Bodie and Jack played but it also has a really big section with lots of slides. Sutton and Laina both got stuck on them and I had to go up to get them down. hehe It also has this swinging thing that I didn't get a picture of. Tanner and I and some of the other kids did that lots. I would ride on it with Laina or Sutton in my lap. Not an easy thing to do and I paid for it. I was so sore the next day. haha And the weather was perfect. It started out chilly and got warmer as the sun came out. It was beautiful! We had a great time!!!

Melissa's youngest - Jack

Bodie's saying "Hey, move Jack!!"

Sawyer and Laina on the skate things

"GET US OFF!!"

 The really cool swings

Tanner who had been running around with other kids playing tag.

"I a spider."

All the kids: Sawyer, Jack, Susannah, Sarah (Melissa's daycare kids), Liana, Bodie, Tanner, and Sutton.

Laina put gloves on Bodie's feet and he thought that it was hilarious as you can see how goofy he got.

 Sutton's in the background without his pants pulled up because he went to the bathroom and wouldn't just pull them up. hehe Oh, yeah, Bodie's saying "Heese!"

Little Laina (AND Bodie and Sutton hehe)

And that's the end of our October! Yay!! Only November and beginning December left!! :)

The rest of our September

I had digressed from my normal timeline (you know...keeping it in order) with Laina's Birthday (Septmeber 21st) and Billie and Kelsea's wedding (October 1st) and our trip to South Dakota. So now I thought that I'd finish up our September in an effort to get caught up. :) Here's what our September consisted of.

I had been finishing up the little bit in the garage that needed to be unpacked and found all my beanie babies. Laina had seen them a couple of times at our old house in Wisconsin and wanted to play with them but I always said no. Well, I saw them in the garage and I wondered to myself why I was keeping them (they'll probably be worth a lot of money someday and I should have just kept them safely packed in my plastic container :)). So I gave them to the kids to there joyous squeals.

What should a two and four year old do with a bunch of different animals but..............

Have a zoo!

Just the boys riding their "car" and "tractor" around the house.

I had posted this earlier but he's just too cute on his "car" that he can really go fast on before he could even walk he could ride this!

And now for Laina being the girl that she is!

Fake flowers that she picked out at a thrift store here.

She wanted to be a princess and go outside to play so this was her outfit in the end

My little princess complete with sneakers. hehe

Playing outside

Bodie is saying "Cheese"

It was Horse's Birthday

They're birthday hats

The Spread

The boys were going to come and visit so this is the tent that we had made for them. I know that I had posted about it with Tanner and Sawyer in it.

Bodie coming out of it.

Getting ready to go to sleep. Don't they look tired?

October to be coming next!!!!

Riding Horses

Aunt Sarah and Kim were so sweet to come over to Grandma Ruth's to give the kids rides on the horses (Sassy and Rambo)!! They were so excited!

Laina made sure she had her cowgirl boots on.

Laina was first

 

  Watching Laina go

 Grandma's deck ramp is SOOO fun!

Now it's Sutton's turn.

Watching Sutton go.

 And last but not least Bodie's turn.

Aunt Sara put Bodie on there to ride by himself and he loved it. This is Kim getting him back down. :)

The kids enjoyed it VERY much! Sutton's horses and all animals actually were names Sassy and Rambo afterward for a month. hehe That was just so sweet of Aunt Sarah to do that!