Time for the gate!

I guess I need to child-proof everything now... Berkley started crawling the day before Thanksgiving. Oh my goodness. I don't know if I'm ready for this! She's my baby! I'm supposed to be able to set her down with all her toys and expect her to still be there 2 minutes later. Not set her down and find her clear across the room, or in the kitchen within 10 seconds. As I type this, Berkley just discovered the door stop spring that makes that really annoying sound. I better go get her. In the meantime, here's a video of our little wild woman!

Halloween 2010

I love Berkley's face in this one. She is so confused on who Spiderman is and wondering what he did with her brother! LOL

Hailey with Michael Jackson. The kids in her class were lining up to get his autograph! It was soo funny!

Bloggin' again

I've been busy updating my blog of all that's been going on with us the last 5 months! :) I have REALLY missed my blog and I'm having so much fun looking back through my pictures and re-living them as I write about them. Not even close to being done, but it's a start! Scroll down to see some of the things that we've been up to!

Hailey's been busy:

Losing teeth. Since she started 1st grade, she's lost her 2 front teeth. The first one she lost while at school. Her teacher sent her to the office and she got a "tooth necklace" and it was all very exciting. It was great in helping her not lose her tooth so the Tooth Fairy came that night.

The 2nd one she lost eating breakfast before going to school. She was so excited to take it to school and show her teacher that she lost it. I warned her that she shouldn't take it to school, to avoid losing it, because then the Tooth Fairy couldn't come. She, however, thought nothing of it. I have to give her credit, cuz she DID come home from school WITH her tooth. It wasn't until about 7:00 that night on a ride home in the car, that it somehow just happened to fall OUT of her "Tooth necklace" and into the dark abyss that is the back seat of our car where Logan and Hailey, er, live. She looked for about a half hour that night, through tears, and never found it. I gave her my "love and logic" parenting phrase, saying "how sad" it was. I'm pretty sure she cried until she fell asleep that night because the Tooth Fairy wasn't going to come. Very sad. But that darn Tooth Fairy was nicer than I would have been.

Silverwood

Every year the kids' school has a reading contest where if they read 900 minutes in a 1 month period, they get a free ticket to Silverwood. Well, Logan met his goal and got one. It was valid until September 26, 2010, except for weekends during the summer months. Needless to say, since I wasn't about to take all the kids by myself on a weekday, we were going to have to wait until summer was over. We had gone to Costco and bought tickets for me and Rob and had planned to go on the 4th of July, but it was freezing cold and raining that day, and that's when we went and stayed at Silver Mountain. So, me, not being able to let our tickets go to waste, insisted that we go on Saturday, September 25th, NO MATTER WHAT! So we (Rob and me and my sister) took our 'older kids' and their cousin, McLaine to Silverwood. It was such a beautiful day and we all had a blast. My mom was so awesome (as usual), and watched Hudson, Berkley and Olivia while we went. Let's just say it's not the most fun place to take a 3 and 2 year old that don't like to be left behind, and a baby. Makes me ill just thinking about it. ;)

Me and Travis

My first time going on "AFTERSHOCK". Jeana and McLaine were sitting next to each other, Rob was waiting with the kids, so I was riding "single". So I asked this kid next to me if I could ride with him. He was so funny. While we were buckling in, he told me that the scariest part is the beginning when you go backwards really fast and that I should just hold my breath, cuz the rest of it was alot of fun. I told him that I'd done the "Panic Plunge", and he said he doesn't do that ride. Anyways, a few hours later, we're walking through the park and I hear "HI!" and it was Travis. I had to get a picture with my rollercoaster buddy!

Berkley was eating her cereal yesterday morning and she was just talkin up a storm and I wanted to get it on tape. Unfortunately whenever I try to get her on video, the minute she sees it, she stops. So I had to 'secretly' videotape her, which is why it's not totally centered. Luckily she didn't stop, because we got "Soo big" on tape! :)

"Sooo big!"