My Daddy!

Clara has decided that our daddy is only HER daddy. She just absolutely loves him. Every morning as he's leaving for work she runs up and says, "Daddy! Huggies, kisses!!" She makes sure he bends down and gives her big hugs and kisses before he can get out the door.
The other day when daddy and I were sitting on the couch Clara climbed up on daddy's lap, spread her arms and head across his chest then turned to glare at me and said, "My Daddy!!"
I guess she just wanted to make sure I knew that he was HERS. lol

Run!

As you may know Emma has been participating in "Girls On The Run", which is a group of girls, grades 3-5, who get together after school on Mondays and Wednesdays and do fun activities while training to run a 5k. Em has LOVED it. She's made new friends and has lots of fun.

Monday was her 5k run! All the kids and I went down to the school to cheer for her. We took Sally, the dog, and Emma got to run with her puppy for part of the race. We are all so proud of our Emma for working so hard!

 

Here's Em running with Sally :)

 

 

 

After the race we gave Emma some special treats. Here she is with her surprises and a big smile. She was very proud of herself, and we were too!

 

Yay Emma!

 

 

 

 

Clean

Aaron has decided to be an old man for Halloween. I got him a Duck Dynasty Uncle Si beard at Walmart that's long and gray. Bub likes it so much he's been wearing it everywhere. He wore it to the dog park and to pick up his sister Emma from a friends house. He told me, "When people look at me they see an old man, but I'm really crazy, hahahahaha!" We've got an interesting kid here.


Our family got to go on the Haunted Hay Ride at Colossal Cave on Saturday. You get to sit on hay bales on the back of a horse drawn wagon that pulls you through the pitch black ranch while "monsters" jump out and try to scare you. The kids loved it! Aaron and Emma said their favorite part was when the chain saw carrying maniac tried to cut them in half. Hannah said, "That was so fun I loved it! But I'm never going on it again because it was too terrifying." Even Clara seemed to like it, although we're pretty sure she had no idea what was going on. She had this funny look on her face the whole time like, "What in the world??" She never cried or screamed or anything, which totally impressed all the other passengers. Even when the "zombie" kids jumped on the back of the wagon and pretended to bite Daddy's leg while he was holding her she just kind of looked at them and laughed.



We were in the car when Emma said from the back seat, "Eww! Hannah you're picking your nose!"
Hannah calmly turned in her seat and said to her sister, "I like to pick my nose because I want my nose to be clean!"

Finally... the rest of the birthday!

It only took me two months, but I've finally got the rest of the pictures from Hannah's birthday party...

Brand new Cow Girl outfit!

 

Little Miss Mermaid

 

Boompa and Lupi dressed up as spooky vampires!

 

As Hannah says, "Ewww!"

 

Scary monster!

 

Cute even with a wig on!

 

I vant to suck your blood.

 

Cheese!

 

Playin puzzles

Coolest Kid

Aaron was talking to one of his friends today about his class at school. He said, "I'm one of the smartest, strongest, coolest, bravest, fastest most awesome kids in my class. With... an awesome sense of fashion."

Definitely nothing wrong with his self esteem...

A Wise Girl...

On the way home from the park this morning Hannah was singing "The Wise Man Built His House Upon The Rock."

Well here is what Hannah's version was -

The wise man built his house upon the boat...the rains came down and the floods came up...and the house on the boat stuck together and floated away!

Hannah's 5th Birthday Party! (Part One)

On Saturday we had Hannah's birthday party! It was so much fun. She got so many presents her Daddy and I decided she is definitely spoiled rotten ;)
But we're sure happy she's a part of our little family.
This is part one of all the birthday pictures. (The rest are on Jared's phone, so I'll have to wait and upload them when his phone's available.)

Hannah wanted a "Spooky Halloween Birthday" so she could dress up in costumes and have fun. Here are two of our cuties all dressed up as princesses wearing spooky googly eyes!

 

Daddy, the Headless Horseman ;)

 

Lupi made Hannah a super creepy zombie cake! Hannah LOVED it!

 

Aunt Heather, cousins William and Joshua, and Grandpa got to come to the party too!

 

Grandpa had fun relaxing with Peepa.

 

Hannah holding up the zombie doll from the cake and the zombie puppy that came with it.

 

Spooky masks!

 

Bye, bye for now! We'll post the rest of the pictures soon!