Happy 2nd Birthday Autumn!!!

This little sweetie got 3 birthdays!! I made her Dora Backpack cake for the 10th of November, which was her birthday. She loves Dora and loves to shout "backpack", so I thought it turned out pretty neat. We did a party with my side of the family, and we had to teach Autumn how to blow out the candles, she kept trying to touch the flames, the little pyro! She has so much family who love her and care for her, what a lucky little girl! We did a party for her at Brian's parent's house last night. Abbie, her cousin from California, is in town with her family for thanksgiving and so we wanted to get together while they were in town. Uncle Justin gave us a little talk about his 2 year mission to the Marshall Islands, they sat on his woven mats and got to see awesome jewelry and cool conch shells. It was really neat to hear about his mission, even with 5 wiggly little girls under the age of 5!

These next pictures are Autumn's birthday at the Keeley's and Justin's mats from the Marshall Islands!

Happy Halloween!

Since Halloween fell on a Sunday this year we did our Halloween fun on Saturday! It was Lola's first birthday that day so we hit her place for a spooky birthday party! She is such a sweetie and we are so glad she had a fun birthday! Lily beggggggeeeedddd me to make her a Princess Oddette costume (from the Swan Princess movie, very cute show) so I made her costume with the help of my friend Jesse, and a lot of help and instruction from my mother in law, Joyce! It turned out awesome! Cloe was easy, she wanted to be a butterfly! So I made her wings had her wear her ballet leotard, made her a skirt, and bought some face jewels to put near her eyes. Autumn was Alice in Wonderland. I made her's too, they all looked awesome and had fun at our church trunk or treat. Cloey totally took off on her own and had the most candy. Lily was super shy and Brian had to nudge her toward the candy, Autumn was so surprised that people gave her candy when she held out her bag! It was so funny to see her face the first truck we visited!

Halloween Prep!

We loved this Halloween, the girls are getting older and understanding more about Holidays! Here was our family night carving pumpkins! With all our girls you can bet we had a lot of "Ewww, this is slimy!" We thought our pumpkins turned out pretty awesome!

And Rhino Was His Namo!

That's right we have dog, he is now about 13 weeks, we got him when he was 10 weeks. He was free and so cute! He is a Australian Shepherd/Border Collie- Lab mix. So he is durable and good with our family. Many may wonder why we got another dog, we had an older dog a year or two ago and gave her to a loving home. We loved her but she was not a good fit for our family... anyway I had been really having a hard time with Skyler's loss and felt strongly that I needed something to help me. So I have my walking/running buddy. He is fun and the girls just love him. For the first little while when we had to leave Cloey was so worried about leaving him home, so sweet!

Family!

My Great Aunt Renee surprised us all her in Boise with a spur of the moment visit back in September and we had fun all getting together! We love our family!

Preschool Fieldtrip

I am involved in a mommy preschool, we have 5 moms and we rotate weeks. Once every 5 weeks I teach a Tuesday and Thursday Preschool. It is so much fun and Cloey has learned so much. This is the 2nd semester we have done it. We have field trip once a month and the first one we did was in September and we went to PetCo for an animal experience! We invited a few more kids, most places want you to have 10 kids there so we invite other kids too. They had so much fun! It was a blast to see who got nervous when the snakes came out...Jesse I love you but was not expecting you to freak out more than the kids! ;)

School Carnival...

I couldn't pass up on this one! So Lily's school did a learning/fall harvest carnival. We all had potatoes, chili, rolls and apple juice. It was delicious! After dinner we were going to go around with the girls to all the stations to complete some sort of learning activity and get a ticket to enter to win some prizes. Lily went to one table and the teacher there asked her a quiz question, and Lily turned into my leg and got all sorts of shy (no surprise there!) Cloey, however was more than happy to answer the question. Lily just wanted to go to the playground to play with her best friend Kylie. So Brian took Autumn and Lily over to the playground, while Cloey and myself went to every table and she played the learning games, did a science project, and answered questions from some teachers that were just standing randomly all dressed up in a costume and giving away tickets. Needless to say I think Lily might have been a little Jealous when Cloey won this very cute game! We had so much fun and Cloey just makes me laugh, she is so ready to be in school!