Catch Up...

Since I am months behind I am going to attempt to catch up using photos with short captions...we will see how this goes.

 On a beautiful day in mid-October we enjoyed a visit to Radar Pumpkin Patch!

 The kids had a blast and we found some pumpkins!!!

 Trick or Treat...This is Faith P. with Faith B.  These two were in the same 1st grade class but Faith B. went to a different school for the remaining elementary years.  They have reunited in jr. high :) Since Faith P. is a little bit too cool to trick or treat with her family she opted to go with Faith B.

 Faith with Emma at a band/choir concert.

 Faith with Grace and Emma at the concert re-enacting "Charlie's Angels."  Cute!

 Beckett took intro. to hockey in October for 6 weeks.  I decided that was enough at age 3 but we will probably pick it back up in a year when he is a bit more mature :)  He got really good on the ice though.  It is amazing at how quickly a 3 year old can pick things up.  He now puts on Faith's roller blades and skates around the house.  Maybe Santa will bring him some roller blades in his size.

 Eden's 8th birthday party at Artful Designs.  She had a "Shake it Up" birthday cake.

 The painted pottery before being "fired."  The girls were all great and had a ton of fun.  The dolphin is Eden's...she LOVES dolphins and it is her dream to be able to touch a real one.

 Faith with her birthday party posse...minus Grace who had to leave a bit early.

 Eden with the boot/shoes of her dreams on.  She has a crazy sense of style which is hard for me at times but I am trying to let her be independent in the clothing department.  The shoe/boots are from her favorite show "Shake it Up."  The style on that show is kind of "eighties gone crazy."  She also got the skirt...she LOVES sequins.

 Halloween 2011.  Sawyer is a phantom (very hard to find a costume for 10 1/2 year old boy), Faith is Cookie Monster, Eden is Sponge Bob (see what I mean about her fashion sense???) and Beckett is Mater from the Cars movie...and very proud of it!!!  I think he told every single person we ran into during the month of October that he was going to be Mater for halloween!

 OOps....repeat picture...cute though...aren't they????  They are enjoying a little hot chocolate :)

 In November I had the pleasure of chaperoning Sawyer's 5th grade class to the Challenger Learning Center where they did a spaceship launch simulation.  It was very cool and very fun!  Their mission was a success!  Here is Sawyer hard at work to make the space mission happen.  I really enjoyed this and am happy that Sawyer likes me to come.  He is in 5th grade now and a big boy.  Next year is jr. high and I won't have very many opportunities to nose into his business at school.  I am also one of his room parents this year.

 Sawyer with some friends eating lunch afterwards.

 Beckett with his pre-school class at his "Fall Gathering."  He did a very, very good job performing songs and dancing around.  He LOVES pre-school this year.  He has changed so much in the last 6 months and is such a big boy now!

 Posing behind one of the trees his class made.

 Eden and Faith with Delaney and Grace waiting to get an autograph from the girl in the picture below.  Her name is Zendaya Coleman (Rocky) from the Disney show "Shake It Up."  She was signing autographs at a minor league hockey game here in town.  The line was annoyingly long!  They just shoved the girls through so it was a tad disappointing.  We had printed photos of Zendaya at home and Eden had "bedazzled" hers for the signing.  Zendaya did make a comment to Eden about the glitz on the picture.  Eden is still talking about it :) 

 Here is my paparazzi shot I took of her with my long lens.  This was after the signing was done and she was watching the hockey game...she looks pretty excited..doesn't she?? 

 Sawyer brought Patrick to the hockey game and here they are enjoying their dip n dots :)

 Eden was baptized on November 26th, 2011!  It was a great day and we had lots of friends come and support her on her special day!  My brother and his family was also here to help us celebrate!

                                                         Our family!!   Look how big all our kids are getting!!!

 Beckett with my niece, Teagan!  They played so well together and had so much fun over the few days we were together at Thanksgiving!

 My kids and 3 of my nieces!

 Eden in the dress I made her for her baptism day.  Yep...you read right...I made it.  It was hard, it stressed me out and I made several mistakes but overall it turned out pretty good.  Most importantly, my super picky daughter loved it.

                                                              Faith and Kalista....the big 7th graders. 

 The kids had an open house at their school in November.  Here is Eden at her desk proudly showing off some of her school work!  She loves here teacher and her class this year. 

Here is Sawyer in his classroom.  He also loves his teacher and class this year.  Sawyer's teacher is a very , very funny lady.  The mannequin in the background is the "student teacher."  Sawyer said she is very funny every, single day. 

-In other news...we have just been really, really busy!  For the last few months I have been working with the 12-14 year old girls in Young Womens (which is our youth organization at church).  I teach them twice a month on Sunday's and help at our Wednesday night activities.  It is a lot of work but so much fun!  It is really great because I get to be with Faith.  The girls are all great and it has been a huge blessing in my life.  The kids have an activity/or activities close to every single night of the week.  I am thankful they are involved in stuff and enjoy themselves.  Sawyer started playing the trombone in 5th grade band.  He enjoys it but doesn't love it.  He will finish it out this year and see after that.  Faith made choir ensemble this year again.  It was a much tighter competition this year...last year they accepted 40 kids and this year only 16.  They hired a different teacher and she shrunk it way down.  Faith had to try out singing "The Star Spangled Banner," alone, and sight reading music.  I was really relieved she made it because it is her favorite activity.  She also finished out her 2nd year of Cross Country.  Sawyer has now started chess club and floor hockey club after school.  Eden is only doing piano right now but starts basketball in January.  Now that she is "8" she also gets to go to church on Wednesday nights twice a month for activities.  I know I don't mention Kyle much but that is because he basically works really long hours!  On the weekends he is very attentive to all of us and we usually try and do something fun.  He and Sawyer enjoy hours and hours of football on Sunday afternoons together.