Christmas Lights 2010

Every year we go down to Locomotive Park in Lewiston to look at the Christmas lights. We usually go the first night they are turned on, but mom missed that this year. Cooper was heartbroken because he enjoys watching all the entertainment. So, we took the kids down last night. It rained/snowed on us. We were a little wet after. This was Emma's first time seeing Christmas lights. Not sure she really even noticed. She was pretty happy though. The boys love to ring the bell on the train, enjoyed dancing on the platform this year to make the lights flash in the trees, and Cooper wanted a picture at every display. We had a fun evening.

The Snow has arrived

Cooper is on Thanksgiving Break and what a great day to wake up with a few inches of snow and not have to go to school. The boys have spent a good part of the day outside. Cooper more than Charlie. Charlie gets cold pretty fast. I don't blame him. The real feel temperature outside was 7 degrees. Brrrrr. We have a blizzard warning issued from 7pm to 10am tomorrow with 5-8 inches of snow. Yipppee!

Cooper pulling his brother around. Mom got quite the workout as well pulling the kids down the small hill on this road while Emma napped.

Yeags loves the snow as much as the boys.

Nate scared some of the chickens out of the coop this morning. They were not too sure what to do. The others were smart and stayed inside.

Sledding down the mulch hill.

Our decorations.

Cooper shoveling last night when it started to snow.

Charlie shoveled on Friday after Coop went to school.

Oh dear. Charlie posing.

So much fun!

A Few Random Pictures

Emma getting around the family room. I started her in the center of the room, she ended up over by the couch then over by the wall. Time to baby proof the house again. She likes to roll all over now. Today she made it to the front entrance. She will crawl a little if there is something she wants to get, but she prefers to roll.

Practicing with the sippy cup. She was able to lift it twice to get a drink.

Stacy made some pumpkin bread and it was so yummy. Thanks Stacy!

Emma loves bath time. According to Nanni Vicki, she needs some girly toys. :)

Tired daddy.

Our Emma

It is hard to believe that Emma will be nine months old on Wednesday. She went on a swing at the park for the first time this past week before swimming lessons. She loved it. It was so cute. She also is laying on her belly a lot longer these days without getting upset right away. She loves to sing with daddy and bounces up and down when he plays the guitar. She is saying more all the time in sign language, loves to clap and is waving bye. We are waiting for the day that she starts to crawl, but she doesn't seem to be ready just yet. On the same track as her brothers. They didn't rush anything.

Fall Days

This is the time of year when we are out raking for about a month straight. We have so many leaves, it feels like it is never ending when we rake. We get them all picked up and then they dump again. This weekend I got a few pictures of the kids playing in the leaves. Cooper is such a hard worker and fills up our garbage cans with leaves. Then we haul them to the dump. This weekend he only was able to work a little bit because he caught some little bug. He has been running a temperature all weekend, but is feeling a lot better today. They also had a leaf fight with Nicole. Her and Brian are up for a few days to visit. The guys have been out hunting.

Emma checking out a leaf.

Our hard worker. Now if we could just get Charlie to work. :)

Emma wasn't too sure what mom was doing to her here.

Charlie trying to get Nicole. They had so much fun.

Boys were ducking down here.

Halloween

The boys had a lot of fun this year. We started the weekend off by going trick-or-treating at the Eastside Marketplace with The O'Loughlin family Friday evening. After we finished at that mall (our malls here are fairly small), we went to the Palouse Mall and met up with daddy.

Here comes Chloe, Charlie and Coop.

They even got to play a little when they were all done.

Charlie showing off his pumpkin he decorated. Most of the decorations are on the side we can't see in this picture.

The boys decorating their pumpkins.

Chloe wanted to hold a cat in this picture and then Charlie wanted to. :)

On Saturday the boys got to go to a birthday party for a friend at Cooper's school. They dressed up in their costumes. They had a great time. Last weekend they all dressed up and we went to Waylon's 1st birthday party. What fun!

Sunday before trick-or-treating we went to the Halloween Party at the Senior Center. We played games, ate pizza and cookies and hung out with friends. We went out for just a little trick-or-treating and then came home to pass out candy. We got 10 trick-or-treaters. The boys loved it. They took turns handing out candy. When Charlie woke up he said I will give the kids candy when they come. He continued to tell us this throughout the day. He didn't understand that Halloween was just one evening. :) They got a lot of use out of this years Halloween costumes.

Our little pumpkin. All three kids wore this costume.

She loves playing with her pumpkin.

Charlie was a blue ninja, Coop a skeleton pirate and Emma was a pumpkin. Charlie's headband didn't quite fit . It was too tight.

These two startled Charlie when he stuck his finger up by the bride's mouth. She tried to eat his finger. :)

The kids each got their picture taken for the costume contest.

Teaching the kids early.

Dad and Emma. Emma even got to try a little bit of the cookie.

Nate and Megan

While we were in Boise, after Brian and Nicole's rehearsal, mom took some photos of Nate and I. It has been a while since we took any so we had fun. :)

My eyes are closed here.

Now Nates.

Third time we got a picture with both of our eyes open. :) Being silly.