Brooklyn's Birthday Pictures

I was finally able to take Brooklyn in to get her birthday pictures. I finally had a day where Brian could watch the other kids. I got her all ready and took her into the mall. I usually get her pictures at Kiddie Kandids, but their doors were closed. I later found out that the day I took Brooke in was the day they went bankrupt. I was bummed out not knowing where I could take her. So I decided to try JC Pennys. They turned out pretty cute and were a lot cheaper to buy!

Silly pose!!!

I can't believe how fast they grow up. They sure don't stay little for long!

Christmas!!

Christmas was really fun this year. Hunter was old enough to get excited for it. Every time he saw a picture of Santa he would have to tap my arm and get my attention and then have to tell me it that it was Santa. Any picture of a man with a long white beard he would call Santa. He even had a Little Peoples Noah which he still calls Santa.

We had our tradition of opening one present on Christmas Eve over at Brian's parents house. Every year the kids get pajamas that the open up on Christmas even. Here is all the kids showing off their new p.j.s. All of my pictures ended up a little dark but you can still see them okay.

Christmas morning was a lot of fun. We got a new puppy on Christmas Eve so Autumn enjoyed showing her off to everyone. It took a while before she had a name. We finally decided on Tiana, which is the name of the princess on the Princess and the Frog. But we call her Tia for short.

Hunter woke up with some wild hair!! Unfortunately it is a little dark in the picture.

Hunter opening up his new dump truck and bull dozer. He is such a little boy. His favorite things are Trucks, tractors and "vroom, vrooms" (anything with a motor such as four wheelers and motorcycles and his new power wheels jeep)

Brooklyn is such a cheese!! All smiles after checking out her stocking.

We had a lot of fun!!

Making our Snowman

We finally made a snowman this year. I can't remember when the last time I made one was. We got a lot of snow during one storm so Brian took the kids out to build their first snowman. The kids had a lot to fun making it with their daddy.

Brian stuck Hunter up on top of the snowman. He is such a little dare devil.

He wasn't scared at all.

Brooklyn had to get in on the picture-taking.

Hunter was so excited to show me his stick he had found.

Group picture with the snowman. But I can never seem to get everyone looking at me at the same time. Oh well, they all had a lot of fun.

Elmo's World

Hunter loves Elmo but it comes on so early that he doesn't get to watch it very often. So my mom has started to record it so he can watch it when she watches him during the week. I used to start to sing the La La part of the Elmo's song and he would finish by singing "Elmo's world" which sounded more like "Elmo's WO" Now he will even sing the La La's all by himself. I love to watch him grow up. He is such a joy. In this video he was getting ready to eat breakfast and had an Elmo place mat. So he started to sing his Elmo song. At the end he realizes that his cereal is sitting just out of sight of the camera and decides that he wanted his cereal by yelling for it.

Hunter's First Song

Hunter learned his first song. He started singing it on Halloween. It took me a while to figure out what he was singing. He was singing the Happy Birthday song. He sang it all the time. I got a really cute video on my phone, but when they transfered everything to my new one, it didn't turn out. I was really sad. I tried to get a good video of it but of course, you can never get it the same. This one is funny because he starts to lead the music for just a minute. He is a nut.

Halloween Pictures

I know it is kind of late to get these up. Kristin was sick with the flu and my only computer access right now is at my parent's house. We carved pumpkins. And everyone got involved. Hunter had a lot of fun pulling out the seeds and getting all messy. The girls had a lot of fun too. The project took a little longer the I thought it would, so when we were all done, I got too busy getting kids in bed that I forgot to get a picture or our finished pumpkins. It was still fun though!

We had a ward Halloween Carnival. The kids had fun doing activities like mummy bowling, fish pond, doughnuts on a string, and pumpkin bowling. I took these photos on my phone. I was sad Brooklyn did not let me take a picture of her at the carnival in her cheer leader costume.

Here is Autumn in her purple kitty costume that I found at the DI for real cheap. She really likes it though.

Hunter loves ELMO. We even got him an Elmo trick-or-treat bucket. I was happy when a friend let us borrow this costume for him to wear

TRICK-OR-TREATING FUN

We took the kids out for some fun trick-or-treating. It was a crazy day. Brooklyn kept changing what she wanted to be but she finally decided on being a lion instead of a cheer leader. At first I was really frustrated because it would change every 5 minutes. But when we were out trick-or-treating and Brooklyn was nice and warm, I was glad she went with the lion and not the cheer leader. We went out with the neighbor's grand-daughter Laurin. The kids had a lot of fun, but I think Brian had just as much fun taking Hunter to all the houses. It was funny because everytime people would hold out the bowl of candy, Hunter would start loading his bucket up. Then they would laugh and give him more. I had to dump out his bucket 2 times.

We went to my Grandma Page's house to trick-or-treat. We go every year to visit them. I was finally able to get a picture or all 3 kids in their costume (plus the dog who wanted the sucker).

Brooklyn's Preschool Halloween Party

Brooklyn's preschool class got to dress-up for their Halloween party today. Brooklyn had a Hannah Montana costume that her Grandma McBride had bought her last year that she was going to wear. But when she tried it on yesterday, it was too big and she didn't want to wear it. So we went DI shopping to see if there were any costumes left. We found a little cheer leader costume that she really liked. It's a little big, but it was only $4. She is always saying that she wants to be a cheer leader so we got her the costume. Now I just have to get a few finishing touches to finish her cheer leader look.

Brooklyn at school in her cheer leader costume

Brooklyn's Preschool Class all dressed up.

Brooklyn's a nut!!