lots of pictures!

So I clearly failed at my goal of not going 6 weeks between postings.  At least I have pictures from that time!

Life has been good, just busy. Kyra is growing like a little weed.  She's definitely a "little girl" now, and not a toddler.  She LOVES learning and is quite the sponge.  I'm not sure I'm ready for her to start kindergarten, but she asks me several times each week how long 'til she gets to go to school!  Liam is my sweet and ornery boy.  After taking a year off, he's decided to grow again.  He's gained about 3 pounds since July (pretty good considering he had weighed 25lbs for a year) and I'm not sure how much he's grown in height but I know he has because pants that didn't fit in October, fit today!  I've been busy with school and homework.  If I could keep us all healthy it would sure be easier to keep up with it all!  

Enjoy the pics!

Throwing rocks by the river

climbing the tree in the backyard

Halloween....

My pink skeleton

and Lightning McQueen

Finger painting turned to face (and body) painting when mom went inside for a few minutes!

The Parade of Lights

Playing in the first snow of the year

Liam turned 3 and had a "Queen" party at the zoo

We walked through the Electricritters after the party.  He doesn't look thrilled, but he had a ball!

We celebrated with a cupcakes and a jammie day on his actual birthday!

snuggling with Mommo on Chritmas Eve

Santa brought a bounce house to us!  Too bad it was too cold to really enjoy!

Santa brought Kyra a jeep she can drive to Mommo and PopPop's house!

And brought Liam a 4 Wheeler!

With my girl

and my boy

October

OK, so I've become a blogger slacker.  But, between school and homework and sickness (the kids had sinus infections and tonsilitis 2 weeks ago and croup-really bad-this past week) if I have a moment to sit down and relax, I don't think about putting pictures up on the blog.  But, I will try to do better than once every 6 weeks!  There are some pictures on my phone of a trip we made to the Nature Center where the kids rode their scooters and threw rocks in the river, but those'll have to wait.  For now, I'll post some pics of the pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins, and the kids in their costumes....

The best I could get of the two of them together

This was his FAVORITE pumpkin!

So silly!

With his pumpkin all decorated (I found temporary tattoos for pumpkins, so fun and easy and cute!!!)

Kyra with hers (though, "hers" changed on an almost daily basis, though never was the green one hers)

all the pumpkins

Carving pumpkins at my folks' (I had a 12-hour span from when Kyra was better from croup and before Liam came down with it...this and a trip to the grocery store is what got accomplished!)

Mommo kept working away even when the rest of us were done!

Kyra and Mommo

As you know Kyra LOVES bones.  So, it was only fitting she was a skeleton for Halloween.  What isn't real clear in the picture is that my mom took some pink puff paint and went around all the bones with it so she was a PINK skeleton!

My poor boy wasn't feeling very good on Halloween, but he did have a good time putting "Queen Car" on and trick-or-treating at the neighbors.  Both of my kids' favorite though is to hand out candy (this year we actually handed out pretzels) to the kids who came to the door.  William would answer the door and say, ''Trick Or Treat!"  It was so cute and so funny.  It through most of the kids for a loop since it's what they were supposed to say...A few little ones tried to give him some of their candy!

You can sort of see the pink in this one....

Several of our neighbors weren't home, so this is what he thought about that!!!!

Me in costume :)

Not sure how this ended up at the end....But, he's cute and he loved picking out pumpkins so it's ok!

Last trip to Taylor 'til next year

Last weekend I decided the kids and I needed to make one last trip to my folks' cabin for the year.  It made for a hectic week leading up to it (had to get the week's homework done by Wednesday night so we could leave Thursday after school) and for a hectic week this week (no "extra" day to work on homework or get laundry done or house cleaned or grass cut or...)  But, it was so worth the craziness!!!!

Beautiful scenery, even if the lake is the lowest I've ever seen it!

Fun car rides....

A couple nature hikes....Mommo joined us for a few!

A cold morning hike (it was around 40 the morning of this little hike)

Kyra caught her 1st, 2nd, and 3rd fish!  (Note, PopPop and I only caught 2 each so the beginner was the champ of the weekend!)

Showing off fish #2 with PopPop (not only did she catch the most, this one was the biggest of the weekend!)

Being silly!

Her 1st fish :)

Next summer he can try a hook and bait!

One fish broke her line literally at the shore.  She was NOT happy.  Picture a stomping foot and her informing that fish about how naughty he was for breaking her line and taking her hook and weights and everything with him!

I caught a couple myself

S'mores....sound like so much fun, but, in reality, no one is a fan!

Her 1st, and last, bite of s'mores!