O Christmas Tree

We finally got our REAL Christmas Tree and put it up on Monday night. We had Christmas music playing and the kids were flying high with anticipation.  We all had a blast putting on the decorations and the kids covered it in candy canes.  Elle rearranges the ornaments daily and Brex has to touch the lights.  Trey likes eating the candy canes best of all and of course they are always looking to see if there are any new presents under the tree.

 Helping dad

 silly kids

 putting on the ornaments

 More decorating

standing by the tree.

gingerbread house

We've made it a tradition to decorate a gingerbread house or train each year and we finally got it done this past weekend.  The kids had so much fun spreading the frosting and putting on the candy the only problem was brex would eat the candy as fast as they could put it on.

thanksgiving

Here are some pictures of our thanksgiving holiday.  the kids had a blast riding the 4wheeler, artic cat and elle got to ride a horse.  the boys didn't want anything to do with the horse, oh well maybe next time. 

 pushing the truck is hard work.

 helping rake the leaves

 playing in the leaves

 look at that hair

you know you're doing something right when.....

You know you're doing something right when the teacher THANKS you for raising such a great kid multiple times during parent teacher conference.  This week has been SEP's for us, in other words parent teacher conference.
 

We had Trey's yesterday and he is doing amazing!  Both Cale and I were speechless when his teacher told us that he will get up in front of the class to read his reports.  If you don't know our trey trey, well lets just say he is the most sweetest, tender heart, shy kid.  He gets along with everyone and has an iron clad conscience.  So when we heard that his shyness hasn't stopped him from standing in front of everyone, lets just say we are very proud parents. His teacher raved about how far he's come and we can't wait to see him grow even more.

We had Elle's SEP today and her teacher just gushed about how thoughtful, helpful, and wonderful she has been.  She literally Thanked us for raising such a great girl.  She said that it shows that we care because of how much Elle cares about her classmates.  Elle's teacher tested her on her sight words while we were there and she knew 21 of them. She blew us away, I guess the norm is 7-10 words. She is excelling  in everything and we couldn't be prouder of her. It definitely made our day to hear such great words about our daughter.

Nothing brings greater joy than hearing that your children are happy, polite, caring and respectable to everyone they come in contact with. These are the times when you can breathe that sigh of relief to know that you are teaching them the right things and that they are taking it to heart.

GREAT JOB TREY AND ELLE!

what blogging?

So blogging has seemed to take a back seat to everything else that seems to be going on.  we had a blast on halloween.  we had ourselves a princess, mario and lightening mcqueen.  brex would tell everyone bye as we were walking away and everyone thought he was so cute.  i was impressed, brex ran and ran and kept up with the 2 older kids.  cale kept saying for your 1 step he takes 4.  trey and elle didn't want to stop they were having so much fun.

Trey's pumpkin

halloween cupcakes

cheesy

ewwwww

deciding on a face.

holding the pumpkin

my little race car

My little side kicks.

price

we headed up to price this past weekend for some family pictures.  while there we took the kids to the good ol' wave pool and had a blast.  here are a few pictures that kim took and sent to us. i will post more when we get them. 

 I love these pictures.  Thanks Kim for taking them!

 Brex's 1st time at the wave pool

 My brother Cliff and his boy Coleman

 Auntie Paula, cousin Codi and Elle

 Brothers

 The boys with Scampi

 Brex jumping!

 Can't do the waves without tubes