Happy Birthday Kadie!!!!

On Saturday, Kadie girl turned 6 years old!!! She choose to go to Great Wolf for her birthday and we went at the end of Sept with a big group of friends. But on her birthday, she says to me.... "so when are we going to Great Wolf?" It took some time to figure out that that trip was for her birthday. So we did only family things, no big friend party, but it was nice. She had french toast for breakfast, then when to the dollar store to buy some treasures with her birthday money, then we did cupcakes and presents, then she wanted to go to Panda Express (her favorite restaurant) for dinner, then we went to see Where The Wild Things Are. It was busy and fun.

Kadie girl, with her new clothes for Paci Bear that she got from Jack. I have not taken her back to build-a-bear since she got Paci Bear so she did not even know there were clothes for them. I think the secret is out of the bag, boy we could do some damage at that store now.
The new Tinker Bell movie from Issie.

An easy bake oven from Mike (Brad's cousin), this is a cool gift. However, you need to buy a 100w light bulb to make it work and they don't make basic 100w bulbs very much now. It cannot be an energy efficient bulb, it has to heat up. So we have yet to try it.

The big breakdown. Yes we bought her barbies! She said that was all she wanted for her birthday, she said that she has a doll house but no dolls, and it is very sad. So I felt like I could do the barbie thing if they were all Disney princesses. Boy she flipped out..... she jumped up on the table to rip off the paper when she saw what it was. It was pretty fun to watch.

Kadie and her barbies!

Happy Birthday Kadie Girl! I can hardly believe you are 6 but sometimes you seem older. You are pretty funny and make us all laugh. You have a great memory and don't ever let us forget what we have promised. You have a great imagination and you can watch a movie and then proceed to stay in character for days. You are a great Pocahontas, and a great Bolt, and a great Wall E. You are so fun and playful. You are loving gymnastics. You are very brave and love to climb super high on the rope. You are sweet and helpful with Issie even when she is mean to you. You forgive easily, all of us, and I am so thankful for that. You feel things intensely, when you are hurt or upset you let us all know about it. You love to have things a certain way but it is hard for anyone else to see the pattern or plan. You have it all in your head. You are smart and you love Jesus. I am so very thankful that I get to be your mom. I hope you had a wonderful birthday. I love you.

bye bye puppy

On Friday, the puppy went to her home. She is 6 weeks and weaned from her mama. She was getting busy and starting to run around the house. I really tried to limit it so the kids would not get too attached to her. Jack was the most attached but he said good bye the day before so that made it easier. He was not home when they came to take her. Kadie was sad but got over it pretty quickly. Issie was obsessed with the puppy and now just says "puppy bye bye". Lucy seems to be doing ok. She got a good bath and we finally brushed the knots out of her ears so she is back to her cute little self. It was a good experience but I think we will not breed her again. We are happy with Lu and ready to move on.

Bye bye puppy.

Halloween Pictures

Life is a bit busy around here with birthdays, holidays, men's retreats and jewelry shows but here are a few pictures from Halloween, about a week late, oops.

Jack (on left) Mom/Issie (on right)
Kadie (on left) and Michael (on right)--Brad does not do the pumpkins:(

Cleaning out the guts, I love pumpkins. I love all the parts of fall.

Yummy carmel apples, I always think of making them and this year we did, they were so good.

Kadie as Asoka form Star Wars the Clone Wars. She was pretty tough.

Issie, and a tutu. She was terrified of her Tinkerbell costume and equally as terrified of the ladybug, daddy tricked her into wearing the tutu. The funny part is as soon as Halloween was over, she put it on and wore it around the house and to the doctors. She just makes up her mind when she wants too.

Jack the rock star.

It was a fun Halloween, we did the carnival at the kids school and then on Halloween night we just did a few houses in our neighborhood. Not a lot of kids do our area so the kids get tons of stuff with only a few stops. Always more than we need.