Flashback Friday {Halloween}

Here is a fun look on the kids through the years!

2003

Michelle is a fairy princess

{2 years old}

2004

Cinderella

{3 years old}

2005

At Stoney Ridge Pumpkin Patch

{4 years old}

2006

Snow White

{5 years old}

Jordan as a pea pod 

or he always says a caterpillar when he sees this pic

{2 months}

2007

friendly purple witch

{6 years old}

Seahawk fan

{1 year old}

2008

beautiful bride

{7 years old}

Seahawk player
{2 years old}

2009

The kids with their cousins

Michelle {8 years old} as Hannah Montana

Josiah{6 years old} Fire Fighter

Eli {4 years old} Winnie the Pooh

 Jordan {3 years old} Seahawk player

2010

Lynden Cheerleader

{9 years old}

Luigi

{4 years old}

2011

black cat

{10 years old}

Jordan was a garbage man!

{5 years old}

2012

Michelle

{11 years old}

Mr. Pig 

{6 years old}

Growing group of cousins!

Michelle {11 years old}

Josiah {9 years old}

Eli {7 years old}

Jordan {6 years old}

Cohen {1 years old}

Fall school carnival

Two weeks ago we had our school fall carnival!

Since I am on the parent volunteer team I got to be quite involved

in all the behind the scenes stuff. I didn't realize all the time that goes

into these school events. Luckily we have an awesome team that made

putting this event together fun and quite painless. 

Jordan came early with me to help set up games and put these in place.

He had a great time playing with the other kiddos there.

Josh arrived in time to walk around with Jordan during the event.

I was in charge of walking around and taking pictures for the year book.

Jordan loves the school carnival but he was very bummed he didn't win 

anything at the rockin' cake walk. He used most of his tickets trying over 

and over to get something. Poor buddy maybe next year.

ten on ten

once a month on the tenth

taking a photo every hour for ten consecutive hours. 

Finding much life and beauty 

among the ordinary things of our day!

Pretty busy keep going day today.

Got the kids off to school.

My nephews got to come play for a while.

Early release so Jordan was home by noon.

Had a little down time and watched a snuggle show together.

LOVE the scent of this candle and have it burning all day.

Michelle wants to cook more so she made us a chili for dinner.

Then it was off to bender for flag football! 

Jordan even got the ball and scored his first touch down!

5 things I will savor about today

5 things I choose to savor about today!

- that by the time most people are getting up I have already gotten up and ran 3 miles!

- a warm cup of coffee in my favorite cup

- spending the morning before school with Jordan reading out of his chapter book, working on word searches and talkin together.

- getting to cuddle and hang out with my adorable nephew Ezra. 

- that I get to be doing what I love while also being home for my family!

it was a nice idea

so......blogging everyday this month was a nice thought but

not going to happen. October came to quickly and life is busy.

I still want to complete this goal but I am going to save for November.

Hopefully I will be more prepared as it approaches.

 I think I am just going to have to wash having a goal for this month

besides getting through each day and finding time to connect as a family.

 A quick update before I head to bed.

Fast pitch and flag football are a little over half way done.

Hopefully the weather will be nice to us so we can finish the season

on schedule. Jordan plays tomorrow and Thursday.

Michelle has a game  at Mt. Baker on Wednesday.

Josh celebrated his big 3-0 birthday this weekend.

The kids went to stay with his parents for the weekend

and we had house guests come stay with us.

We went out to dinner Saturday night with a large group

of people and then back to our house to hang out to late into the night.

I actually was the first one to go to bed.

Tonight Josh is off playing poker so it was just the kids and I.

Jordan really wanted to go to Homestead to swim so I took him

with hopes of just sitting in the hot tub. I am not a huge pool person.

Then it was ice cream cake, home work reading, word search and bed for the kids.

I need to go to bed now as my alarm is set way to early so I can work out.

blog everyday

One of my goals for 2013 was to blog more.

So October was the month I was going to try and blog everyday.

As you can see I have already missed two days but I am not

going to let that stop me! During this month I want to not only blog

about the day to day stuff but other topics as well.

I have a list of ideas so hopefully you will get to read about some of them!

This week has already been crazy busy.

Monday Jordan was home sick with a mild stomach flu bug.

Tuesday Michelle had a fast pitch scrimmage game and Jordan 

had a flag football practice game against a 3rd grade team in the pouring rain.

Wednesday I had a parent volunteer team get together to plan for the school carnival

that is next week Friday! We have a lot of fun games planned and some great auction baskets!

Michelle was supposed to have a late fast pitch game but it got canceled due to rain

so we were able to sit down to dinner as a family and go to church! 

I even made a beef stew in the crock pot! First one of the fall season!

Today is my errand/help in Jordan's class day!

I am also going to take Josh out for an early birthday lunch!

Tonight Jordan has flag football game at 5:45pm and

Michelle has her make up game at 6pm at Bender.

I need to get my butt moving so I can get all my errands done, have time for lunch

and make it back to Lynden in time to help in Jordan's class!

I will leave with a few flag football pictures from Tuesday.