November

November started off busy with visits from both sets of Grandparents. We were so excited to see all of them. The weekend they came to visit was also the primary program. Zak read a scripture by himself and they both did good on their parts. Makelle was a little crazy because she had super curly hair and she had gotten to open some of her Birthday presents early. She had on a new dress and new shoes. She was all smiles and in her own world as she was sitting up front. They were fun to watch. During class time Makelle also pulled out her first tooth!




After church she got to open her presents from us and her brothers. She was pleased with the new table and tea set.



She is showing off her new stuff.



While Zak was at school on her birthday we had a tea party. Makelle made the entire meal and served us and shared her table. She made scrambled eggs, toast, sausage, and hashbrowns!



Showing off her new fancy coat.
Grandma Valynn helped to make Makelles castle cake. Makelle did the final decorating of it!

The day after her birthday I talked her into a fancy party instead of a friend party. We all dressed up fancy and John served her dinner. We had her favorite, tacos (super fancy). She got us all glasses and made us name tags. We had flowers, fancy cups, sparkling cider, fancy mints and all sorts of yummy treats. We had music playing in the background and ate by candlelight.

I think this Grandpa loves fancy parties!
Makelle in her "Fancy" clothes.
Zak didn't want in the fancy photo but here are the rest of the participants.

After dinner we all joined in dancing.

We had a fantastic time celebrating Makelle's birthday and having company for the weekend. The kids love when grandparents come because it means lots of goodies and quality time.

September and October quick update

Zak on his first day of school. Crazy that I have a first grader that is gone ALL day. He loves school, he loves his teacher and he loves playing with his friends. It has been a great year so far. He can read chapter books on his own and finally loves to read to himself and others. His favorite subject is math and he thinks it is easy. He still wants to be a biologist and he loves having a pet chinchilla in his class. It feels like he is seriously gone the whole day but he loves it so that is good.
We got leashes for our bunnies and the kids loved to PULL them around.

Random pictures of the kids posing.


Zak on his first field trip and first bus ride. I got to go with him and we rode the bus to the Falls of the Ohio and looked and learned about fossils.

We love fall because we get to have some free entertainment at Montgomery farms. We love going on tractor rides, feeding and petting the animals, swinging in the loft and picking out pumpkins.

Zak in his Peter Pan Halloween costume. The batteries died before I could get all of the kids pictures. Even though there isn't pictures to prove it the kids had a fantastic time trick or treating for the first time. We only went around the block but they got tons of goodies.