School Halloween Bear Scare

Every year our school has a Halloween carnival called the "Bear Scare" (our school mascot is a bear). Last year we were in Disneyland during this time, so we missed out. We were so happy to be able to make it this year!


Right when we walked in the door, we ran into the G6! Their Mom, Sheree, was working the tattoo booth, so we offered to take the kids around to the games. But first, a quick pic!


Ummm....yeah. Darth was not really having it. Once he heard we were gonna move on and do some games, he was ready. He did smile and pose with the kids, but my camera was being slow, so by the time it worked, he was done.


The kids tried all the games. This game was cool, cuz they got to keep the smooth rock that they used to play hop scotch with.
One of the things I love about our school is that it is K-8. This event is put on by the middle schoolers, mostly the 8th graders. They are super sweet with the little ones.
I wish I had taken more pics, but we were super busy and before I knew it, it was my turn to work the cupcake walk!
Needless to say, much fun (and candy) was had by all!

Seattle Tilth Field Trip

My daughters, Kaylin, and Emma, are in a multi-aged classroom together (along with their cousin Lucas) at school. This is the first year that they will be together, because Emma was in Kindergarten last year. It is a large class with 54 students and 2 teachers (along with a bunch of parent helpers). Because of the large class, often there are to many parent volunteers and there is a lottery held for the parents to "get" to go on the field trips with the kids. I "won" the lottery for the first field trip of the year and headed with the class to The Seattle Tilth. As it says on their website "Seattle Tilth is a nationally recognized non-profit educational organization dedicated to inspiring and educating people to garden organically and conserve national resources".

Here is my group of kiddos, Kaylin, Emma, Rami, and Lucas. After this pic, we headed out for our scavenger hunt. We had to try to find things like birds nests, garbage, berries, and bones. I am very greatful that we did not find any bones. Yuck!


Next up we learned about composting! My girls and I were very excited about this because we just got our first compost bin from Sheree. Her neighbor was giving one away, and since she already had one, she was very nice and gave it to us. In the words of Pay "Thanks Sa-wee!".


The kids got to move the leaves from bin to bin and then move the most composted stuff to a new location with a wheelbarrow. Then they carried the hose over to water.


After watering, they covered it all with burlap bags to protect it.


Here is the entire class posing for all of us parents. I hope I get to go on more field trips with them this year!

Storm Troopers Trophy party

The Storm Troopers ended their season undefeated (although, we aren't really supposed to keep score at this age)!


Pay was so excited to get her trophy!


Coach David's son Dev was MVP! He scored 9 at their last game!!!



Cousin Livia getting her trophy from Coach David and Coach Uncle.


Pay with cousin Livia. Both super happy to have soda pop and candy from the goody-bags that Julian's mom made (thank you!).

Thanks so much to David and Dao for being such patient coaches for the kids, and Sheree for being an amazing team mom! I am so glad that we get to do one more season with you before the boys and girls have to split up!

Toothless wonder

My dear, sweet, Emma pulled out her top front tooth this morning!

Do you remember when you were a kid, how exciting it was to lose a tooth? Well, she is 6 years old and it is pretty much the coolest thing that has happened to her in her entire life! She told me so herself!

It was pretty loose, so I grabbed my camera and starting video taping....

She has now lost more teeth than her big sis, Kaylin! This is very happy news for her, but Kaylin, who is 8 1/2, will not be so happy when she gets home from school and finds out!

Kreativ Blogger Award

I want to give a big, big thanks to Marta at Haus of Girls, for nominating me for the Kreative Blogger Award! Be sure to check out her Etsy site ...cute stuff!

Here are the rules:

1.Thank the person who nominated you for the award.

• 2.Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
• 3. Link to the person who nominated you for the award.
• 4. Name 7 things about you that people may not know.
• 5. Nominate Kreativ Bloggers.
• 6. Post links to the blogs you nominate.

7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs to let them know that they have been nominated.

7 Things you may not know about me:

1. When I was young, my hair went past my butt. I used to sit on it accidentally and my neck would yank back! Ouch!

2. My husband and I are middle school sweethearts. ♥ We are 32 yrs old and have been together for over 17 yrs!! That's longer than we've been apart!

3. I am the youngest in my family. I have two big sisters and we are all 5 years apart.

4. I always wanted to be a Mommy.

5. My Dad passed away when I was 16 and I still miss him terribly. Sad, I know. :(

6. I want to travel the WORLD! But I wish I could do it, and still be home by like 7 every night to cuddle with my girls in our jammies.

7. I love, love, love to read!! I am totally addicted, and don't really watch TV anymore!

Now I'm Nominating:

Sheree

Julie

Carol

Kendra

Tita

Thanks again, Marta!

Pumpkin carving fun

The G6 invited us over for a pumpkin carving party!

We each made goody bags. Sheree made sweet (candy) ones, and I made salty (chex mix) ones. We ended up taking them to the soccer games on Saturday, and the kids loved having a special treat!

The Daddies and kids went to town cleaning out the pumpkin guts (yes, we are keeping seeds to bake some).

We printed out pumpkin faces and the Daddies got to work. To bad they had to leave for the Jay-Z concert and only got one pumpkin carved, each!

What's a party without balloons?

After awhile, the kids decided to make faces on the balloons. This is Emma's. Can you see the barrette in the "hair"?

Jack-o-lantern pizza for the kids.

Ummm......is that a pizza pie???

NO!.....I kinda messed up with the second pizza. I got a little ahead of myself and added all the toppings to the very thin pizza crust while it was still on the cutting board. Um...ya, we had to move the pizza on to a oven pan so that we could cook it in the oven. What a mess!

But, the Daddies saved the day (and the pizza)!

I had to show a picture of the punch that Sheree made. It was orange pop and vanilla ice-cream. It started foaming after the orange pop went in....sicknast!!

The kids gobbled it up, though!

After the Daddies left, the kids settled down with a good game of Apples to Apples.

Then they moved on to puzzles.

The day after the concert, Dao finished up all the pumpkins. Can you guess which pumpkin goes with each child?

Doesn't look like we are going to make it to the pumpkin farm this year. :'( The weekends are just to busy with soccer (and rain). So here are some pics of pumpkin farm's past. :0)



2005

2008

Storm Troopers Last Game

Payton's team, the Storm Troopers, had their last game on Saturday!

Payton was really into it at this game! She was all set to score on Daddy! We were high fiving during the game, because Pay actually kicked the ball. She always practices for the first 1/2 hour, but come game time, she wants to eat snacks and snuggle in the chair with Mommy. So there was much to celebrate when she was kicking the ball out on the field during the game.

Dev was the MVP (he has been for pretty much the whole season) with 9 goals!

It had rained (poured really) all day Friday and Saturday morning. When it was game time, the rain went away.....but the mud and worms stayed. While waiting in line for drills, the kids were checking out all the worms.

The girls thought it was funny that the boys touched the worms.

Sheree brought Storm Trooper tattoos, and the kids were super excited to show um off.

Madi, was so adorable with Kaylin's white board. She had been fussy during most the game, but once Kaylin let her use the white board, she sat and colored for almost 15 minutes.

Poor Livi was out with the flu, so we are super happy that the team will get together again next week for the pizza and trophy party!