Aidan & Kaliska Christmas Program

So the younger two had their concert this last week on Monday. All of my sweet kids did an awesome job in both programs in the last two weeks. How I love my sweet gremlins!!

Becca's Christmas Program

Here is the Christmas program for Becca, who decided to start playing the flute this year. She is doing very good and is enjoying playing.

Thanksgiving

So this year we had the opportunity to head to Texas to visit my husbands parents. We left on Tuesday, and spent the day driving, tagging along for the ride was  Princess the silly dog. We made it by six pm, after making it though rush hour traffic,so glad to live in a small community. Wednesday we had my wonderful husband take the kids to the Science Museum, while my mother-in-law and I went to the store to get everything for Thanksgiving dinner. Then spent the rest of the day preparing everything for desert with the neighbors and then some dinner items. Thursday we got a early start for getting the turkey ready to cook and then the kids went on a walk to the park with mom and dad. After we had a wonderful dinner, we just rest and played games and read books.

Then Friday we decided to head to Fossil Rim Wildlife Park about an hour away from the in-laws house. This wildlife park covers nine and half miles of wild animals, that you can feed from your car. The kids had a blast feeding all the animals that came to the car. Even Grandpa got in the action, by trying to bring one of the animals home.

Saturday we went to the zoo with Grandma! The kids had the chance to ride a camel!

Becca's Cute letter to Me

My name is Rebecca, i have a sister named kaliska and a brother name is aidan. I love them so much. My favorite color is purple, my favorite animal is elephants, and my favorite food is pizza. My sister and brother are crazy. Aidan is ticklish. Kaliska is a artist in a family.kaliska likes husky, her favorite color is purple, and her favorite food is eggs. Aidan likes ferrets, his favorite color is orange, and his favorite food is hot dogs. Next time i will talk about how well i sing.

Family Pics

So the first week of November, we had the chance to get family pictures taken. I had a friend in town that took pictures for us. So we headed out into the county to have some outside pictures done this year. 

Halloween

This year for Halloween was very low key for us. We did not even crave pumpkins, we got some funky ones from Dedrick's work. The girls wanted to be zombies and the boy was a gladiator.  So to be more exact Becca was a normal zombie and Kaliska was mutant butterfly zombie. Our ward Trunk or Treat was on the same night, so we gave the kids the choice. So I ended up taking the kids out this year and the husband stayed home to pass out the candy. The kids had so much fun going around town getting see all their friends and collect the booty!

Adventures

We have had many adventures this month, I just have been busy not blogging them. First we had the chance go to the first football game of the season for Kansas State. Dedrick's coworker gave us his tickets for the game. Sea of purple on Sep 8th totaling 48,843!

The next adventure was going to the state fair Sep 15th, the kids loved seeing all the animals. I was working the college booth, so I missed most of the fun. It was great to see giant tractors with wheels bigger than my kids and a timber wolf.

The final adventure was going to the Scottish Festival  here in McPherson with our friends the Stark's and Marshall's. The kids had fun doing games and trying new foods. 

School Update

We have been in school a little over month now. The kids are getting into the schedule again, it has taken them a while to adjust.

Becca is in 5th grade now, she rotates classes every 50 minutes. She seems to be doing well with it, not having too much trouble. She is old enough to start band this year and chose to play the flute. She will also be starting basketball in the next month. She is very excited.

Aidan is in 2nd grade now. He loves being one of the cool kids in his class. He does really like school, but he doesn't like the homework part. He really is starting to get into reading chapter books on anything he can find. He is reading The Lightning Thief now.

Kaliska started all day Kindergarten this year, and luckily she has the same teacher from last year. She gets to ride the bus with her brother this year. She seems to be doing well and making lots of friends. I have a date with her tomorrow at school for Muffins with Mom.

I am also in school this year at the local college about 5 miles away. I am taking four classes this semester, which are quite fun. It feels good to be doing something to enrich my mind and help myself prove I can. It was hard for me to get in the swing of being in school again, but I am managing with the help of my wonderful husband.

Dancing Girl

We were all downstairs after finishing a movie. I had put on some music to listen to and Kaliska comes abound the corner dancing. My silly girl! 

Mom Moment

Conversation with Kaliska and Aidan:


Me:"Why didn't you clean up the mud, when I asked?"


Aidan:" We were too busy playing."


Kaliska: "It is your job as mom! "


Me: Silence (with stern look)

Aidan: "Mom I think you need a timeout before we get in more trouble"

Kaliska: "Yeah mom"

Got love my kids:)

Volcano and Kite

Aidan got a volcano making kit earlier this year and we finely were able to make it. He was so excited to show everyone how it works.

The wind has been coming in strong the last few days, our kids have been wanting us to fly a kite. So Dedrick took the kids out back and stood on the play set to get a better angle for wind.

First Day of School

So all my babies are in school this year:).  It feels strange to have the house to myself all day. I do miss them, yet I am able to get a lot done. I also started school myself this year to get my degree in Special Ed Teaching. I have three and half to four year left. Wish me luck!

Rebecca going into 5th

 Aidan going into 2nd

 Kaliska going into K

 Happy Smiles:)

Last Day

We had the opportunity to see my good friend Desiree and her two girls from Alaska. She was  visiting her family in Kansas City. So we decided to drive up on the last day of summer and spend the time with them. We spent the afternoon in a cool park with big size play houses turned into an old town. Then we went to lunch and talked about our lives over the years. My kids and I had a great time with old friends, what a good way to end summer break!

The Bridge

 The Town

 Jail

 Escape Tunnel

 The Monkey's

End of Summer

So it is that time a year again! When the kids are asking when school starts and not wanting summer to end! We have not done much this year because of my husband traveling a lot and me working more hours. We have been taking outings with our friends the Marshall's and Stark's.

 We had the opportunity to visit the Cocoa Dolce Artisan Chocolate factory for a home school field trip. We even got free chocolate, met the owner, got to see how they used the different machines for the many chocolates.  Then went to their store a few blocks way and see much more of the company. All the kids enjoyed it very much and were very good, considering there were 7 of them.

On another day that week we went to the zoo for a home school field trip. The kids had fun running to see all the animals and hearing cool facts about them. We even got to see the trainers working with the elephants and do tricks for us.

Other than that we have been just playing with friends, going swimming, checking out library books and getting very muddy! The other reason we haven't done much this year is how hot it has been. You go out and five mins later you are back in the house sweating and melting.

We have had a good summer, hope this school year goes well!

Imagine what he look like before he changed!!!