Monday, September 29, 2008

Few random pictures

Emms with her normal smiles, and I love that it looks like I have alot of hair in this picture. Sometimes she gets so tired she will fall asleep anywhere.
Faith loves to take self portraits and this is usually what we get. Actually sometimes we get a nice shot up the nose.
She also likes to get Levi but he is a good sport about it.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Cooling off after the Festival

It was much hotter than we thought it was going to be at the Festival so on the way back to the car we happened to pass the spray park and had to let the kids play.
Levi, my little daredevil was in the center where the most water sprays most of the time.

Faith took a little more coercing to go into the center but eventually did it.

What a nice cool off to a hot fun filled day.

Liberty Fall Festival

Joe and I took the kids to the Fall Festival today. We had a great time, we started off with the parade where the kids got tons of candy tossed at them. Then we walked around all the different booths, it was lots of fun.

Time for a snack, as you can tell Levi is deciding if he should wipe all that grease on his shirt. Grease from.......
yummm food you can only get at activities like this. This plate of French fries was at least twice this size when we got it.
Faith thought it was fun to get little free knick knacks from all the stands, at least one of them was giving bags to put it all in.
My kids had to try 1 ride. They both did the slide. I wish I had gotten a better picture of Levi's face on the way down it was comical.
He was so sweet to help Faith up at the bottom.
Emma was behaved and smiling as usual. She is so easy to take around she fits right in.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Oh no! The stairs!

Emma is 9 months today. I can't believe it, time has literally ran away from us. On a side note everyone that means only 3 months til Christmas.

Here is her new favorite thing to do. You wouldn't believe how quiet and sneaky she is about it either. I swear she knows we'll get her down if she makes any noise.
Oh man I'm caught!
She's almost to victory, and don't worry Joe is next to her to catch just in case. You just can't see him in the picture.

Ya see look what I did. Now we have the task of teaching her to go down so she doesn't topple down.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Alldredge Apple Orchard

Today Levi, Emma and I went to the Apple Orchard with some friends. It was so much fun and Levi had the best time. When we first got there all the kids just wandered around looking at everything.All the kids thought it was fun to follow around the chickens. I don't know how much fun the chickens thought it was but then again they are probably used to it.Once the group got all together we got together we went on a hay ride around the farm. Everyone was so well behaved and enjoyed all the scenery.
Emma enjoyed herself to. She was great the whole time. She played in the grass and bounced around on the hay ride and just smiled at everyone we passed.

After the hayride the kids all got to listen to a story about bees. As you can see they were all very interested to learn that a bee only makes a teaspoon of honey in its whole life.
After the story they got to look at some real buzzing bees.
Next it was off to feed the goats.
Then to holding the baby kittens. I stayed clear of this activity and washed Levi's hands as soon as he was done or I would have had itchy eyes and been sneezing like crazy.

Finally we got to go pick some apples. Levi loved this part and couldn't wait to wash one and eat it.


"Look what I got mom!"
We had a really great day. It was fun to watch Levi interact with all the other kids and just have a genuinely good time. Of course as we were leaving he says, "That was fun mom what are we doing next?" Seriously this boy could go on forever.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Mckinley B-day Party

Faith went to one of her really good friends 6th birthday party on Tuesday. She had a great time with all the girls. I am so glad that we have friends like this with great kids and great parents that we feel so comfortable letting our kids be around.
Thanks Court and Brittany for including Faith, this is all she could talk about. Once she stopped talking about how much fun she had she was out like a light.

Baby fun

Yesterday I went on a walk with some friends. Emma and Jaxson (a friend of mine's baby) sat face to face in the stroller. It was cute how they interacted with eachother. Emma kept picking up Jaxson's pacifier and he would just watch. She also kept leaning in for the big kiss. I think he just thought she was silly.
Aren't they so cute!

Friday, September 12, 2008

20 questions

This was stolen from my friend Brittany but I thought it was cute so I had to do it.



1. What is something that mommy says?
F: I love you.
L: Go to timeout


2. What makes mommy happy?
F: When I be good.
L: being good

3. What makes mommy sad?
F: When Levi poops in his underwear. (sometimes this does happen and I tell him it makes me sad)
L: When I poop in my clothes (obviously this happened today bacause they got asked these questions at separate times)

4. How does your mommy make you laugh?
F: Tickle me
L: tickle me

5. What was your mommy like as a child?
F: Little
L: good

6. How old is your mom?
F: 50 (thanks Faith)
L: 5

7. How tall is your mom?
F: big
L: big


8. What is mommy's favorite thing to do?
F: Run (I wish)
L: play with me


9. What does mom do when your not around?
F: Work
L: Play with Emma


10. If your mom becomes famous what will it be for?
F: Music
L: being good


11. What is mommy really good at?
F: Work
L: Playing games


12. What is mommy not good at?
F: I don't know
L: Legos


13. What does mommy do for her job?
F: Work on people at the hospital
L: Make money


14. What is mommy's favorite food?
F: Pizza
L: Chicken


15. What makes you proud of your mom?
F: Making stuff
L: Loves me


16. If your mom were a cartoon character who would she be?
F: London (from the Suite Life)
L: Backyardigans


17, What do you and your mom do together?
F: Play outside
L: Play legos (which apparently I am not good at)


18. How are you and your mom the same?
F: We're girls
L: I don't know


19. How are you and your mom different?
F: Different hair
L: eyes


20. How do you know your mom loves you?
F: cause I'm your daughter
L: you tell me



Thursday, September 11, 2008

You're so big

Emma has decided that her favorite place to stand up is underneath my bar stools between two of them. While this is very adorable because she giggles the whole time she often can't figure out that she has to sit back down to get out from between them. It sure is fun watching her explore all these new things.
She also has decided if she wants out of the carseat she'll just take care of it herself.




I really can't beleve how big Emma has gotten over these last few months. Everyday she is learning and exploring new things. One thing she does everyday is when I walk into the room she instantly starts laughing and getting excited, it is moments like these that make being a mother the best.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

First day of Preschool

Levi started preschool today. I can't believe it, he was such a big boy. When I told him I was leaving he said bye mom love you and off he went. So for 3 hours it was just me and Emma. What is a mom supposed to do when she goes from 3 kids to 1. Well first she enjoys that this is the first time her 3rd child had gotten "mom" only time since she was born. Next she runs a few errands which seem insanely simple with one child in tote. Next week we start carpool so I will only be driving on Wednesday's so on Monday and Friday I get even more extra time.



Here Levi is where they hang up there bags, can you tell he is already excited?

They walk in and put there names on the board to show that they are at school that day. Good job Levi.
They have lots of little play and learning stations to keep busy minds occupied, Levi will love this as he loves to be busy.
Here is Levi and his friend Alexis taking a quick break for a picture.
Finally here he is walking to the car. Looks like he had a good day.
Levi enjoyed preschool alot. The only complaint he had was that they couldn't play outside today because it was raining. Oh well they will have lots of days to play outside. I can't believe my baby boy is in preschool, they get too big way to fast.