Playing Catch Up Again!!

I've been struggling with the blog this year. I really enjoy having our blog books, but this year its been hard to post regualarly. First off, my computer isn't always working and that's where my pictures are. So here I am again doing a catch up!!

1. My new calling is the Activity Day Leader. We have our activities every other week. I am over the 10 and 11 year olds. It's been a lot of fun. I have 10 girls in my class, so it's always a little crazy! One activity we made some yummy Halloween treats at my house. My girls were there too with the younger class. It was a lot of fun!

Most of the girls showing us their chocolate ghosts!

Abbi and Shannon with their ghosts!

2. DJ got to spend the day with his Grandma Spencer back in October. She went in as the mommy helper and then we went to Lethbridge with her and she bought him a remote control cop car. He was in heaven. He had so much fun with his Grandma. He would play with that car every day. One day I came out in the garage and he had set up a work shop on his dad's table. I asked what he was doing and he replied, "I fixing my car mom!" It was super cute. He replaced the batteries all by himself!

Cute DJ working on his car with his dad's tools!

He brought his tools up, but I gave him a real screw driver so he could take the cover off.

3. So I learned that you can't always put water bottles in the dishwasher. The girls bring theirs home every weekend and I wash them for Monday. Well I went to get them out and I couldn't figure out where Abbi's bottle was. Then I realized that her bottle shrunk. It was so funny. It didn't melt in a weird way but literally shrunk in size and was in the same shape as before. We all had a good laugh over it!


So the yellow bottle is the normal size and there is Abbi's bottle that shrunk!!

4. DJ and I went to the park on one warm afternoon. He had fun running around while I watched him. I have been driving bus a LOT lately. So sometimes he gets a little tired of always being on the bus. It was a fun afternoon. Then we had to get on the bus to go get the kids!!

5. Now that it's winter I've been shovelling snow in Lethbridge again. I do the north side in front of the mail boxes. DJ is almost always with me. One day he insisted on helping me. So I bought him a small shovel and he would get out at every other mail box. He was very serious and did a good job helping me. It was so cute! We were getting close to done and I went to open the door for him and he looked at me and told me he was too tired. He was beat! So I put his seat down and put a blanket around him and he went to sleep. This was in the morning. He slept for 1 1/2hrs. Crazy boy. I couldn't get him to wake up!

6. We have been going to Parent Pre-School and DJ loves it. On this same day that he fell asleep we had to be back for PPP. We got there and he was still sleeping. I had stopped in a drive through to get him lunch. I carried him inside and he finally woke up. He came into the mom's room to eat and then he was happy to go play. On the way home he insisted on walking. Then he asked for his shovel. He walked home and shovelled the sidewalk on his way. So funny! I just drove slowly on the road. He cracks me up!

DJ shovelling the sidewalk as he walked home!!

A happy boy with his shovel!

7. My girls are all in choir together. They go every Wednesday after school. They performed for the first time at the Remembrance Day Program at the school. Richard and I and my mom all went to see them. They all did so good! I am so proud of them!

My girls singing in the choir!

8. One night DJ insisted on me making a "nest" for him to sleep in. So I put his blankets into a big circle on his bed. He curled up in his "nest" and went to sleep. What a funny boy!

DJ sound asleep in his little nest!!

9. We have watched Keira a few times for Brent and Tiff. We had her for 3 days and 2 nights at one point. She is such a cutie and everyone loves it when she is here. We have so much fun with her. She did so good too! DJ was super sad when he came home from school to find that Keira was gone. He was not happy. Those two were cute together!

Happy Keira with a puppy she found!

Eating an early lunch!

Keira watching DJ play on his cell phone!

DJ and Keira watching a movie in DJ's room!

10. We went down to Kalispell for the long weekend. It was just nice to get away and be together as a family. We just hung out in our condo and did a lot of swimming. The kids found the craft center and they had fun making crafts. We went out for dinner on Sunday and just had a good time. The last night I checked on the kids and had to laugh at how the girls were sleeping it was super cute.

My 4 kids in a jeep at the Army Navy.

Richard and DJ at Famous Daves.

Abbi and Brianna at the restaurant.

Cadence, Brianna and Abbi relaxing on the couch in the condo!

Cadence sound asleep on the floor!

Brianna and Abbi sound asleep on the couch bed. So cute! This reminds of a picture when they were babies!

11. About a month ago Richard and I went on a date one Friday night. We were planning to go into Lethbridge but plans changed. Richard really wanted to go shooting with the Scouts at a farm in Spring Coulee. So I went too. It was actually a lot of fun. We shot for hours. My arm was pretty sore afterwards and I ended up with a huge bruise on my right arm!! Then we drove into Cardston and had supper together and then came back home. It was a fun date!


Richard shooting some clay pigeons!

12. I went to the dentist to get my teeth cleaned and DJ came with me. It took a lot longer then I thought it would. He was such a trooper and waited for me in the waiting room while he played on my ipad! After we went to Costco and I let him walk around and look at all the toys. He fell in love with a motor bike and car!

DJ in the little mini cooper!

DJ on the Cop motorbike!

13. I have been driving bus a lot. When I do, it`s usually all day. DJ has come with me a lot. It`s been ok because when I take kids swimming, DJ and I go swimming too. He loves that. The only thing is, when he gets back on the bus he is done. Sound asleep. He cracks me up. One time I couldn`t wake him up! Silly boy!

DJ sounds asleep on the bus!

Ooooooooo......Halloween!!!!

A few weeks before Halloween we made a Spooky Ginger House. The kids were so excited to do it. DJ had seen the spooky house at Roosters and kept asking me to buy it. I told him we would do it for FHE. He didn't let me forget. So when Monday came around DJ and I went and bought it.

Richard had to work late that night so I gave a quick lesson and then we all sat around the table and made the spooky house. It was a huge hit! I can't wait till Christmas when we can make more Ginger bread houses!!

Oooooooooo, spooky house!!

The following Monday, we carved pumpkins for FHE. Richard had bought some carving knives with some cool patterns to cut out in the pumpkins. So we each did one for the kids. I didn't realize that there were different levels and I chose the hardest one. It turned out really cool though. Just took me forever. The kids were all happy with their pumpkins!

The kids with their pumpkins!

Halloween came and all my kids had school that day. The girls decided to come home for lunch again this year and they would get dressed then. DJ had pre-school in the morning so I got him dressed up like a pirate. He didn't want me to do anything special. He just put on his costume. He was a little bit embarrassed to go. Silly boy! I kept telling him that everyone else was dressed up too! We got there and he didn't want me to leave. So I stuck around for a bit till he finally left me and went to play with his buddy, Dustin!

We picked up the girls and came home and had lunch. Then I took them back to school. DJ and I came back to the Gym for the Halloween parade. I took DJ to his pre-school teacher so he could march around with his class. I didn't think he would, but he sat with his teacher and was fine!

It was fun to see all my kids march around in their costumes. I tried to get some pictures of them as they were walking, but they all ended up a little blurry! Oh well! They were still super cute!!

DJ the pirate!!

Abbi the cute cowgirl!

Brianna, the scary witch, and Cadence the happy cheerleader!!

After school the girls went to the piano lessons. I got supper all ready so we would be ready to eat when they got home. We had a quick supper and the kids got all dressed up in their costumes again. I made sure they had coats on underneath this time. Then we took some pictures and we were off!

My 4 cute kids all ready to go trick or treating!

Richard dressed up as a duck dynasty!

This year, we decided to just walk with the kids. They are old enough that they would be ok. We just did a few block with them. It's amazing how much candy they all got. They were all super happy and had a really fun time!

Checking out all the candy!

Counting and eating the candy!! Yummy!

So that was our Halloween.

Another Randmon Post!!

I can't think of any exciting or catchy title for this post! Oh well! So I found a lot of cute, yet very random pictures. I just need to totally get caught up. Then I can sit down and post about Halloween.....on time!!

1. My kids like to be funny and wear masks sometimes. When they do, it really cracks me up. I only got a picture of DJ and Cadence, but the other two like to dress up too!


DJ came home from Pre-School with these funny glasses!! He looks hilarious!!

Cadence wearing her beaver nose and brushing her teeth at the same time! She couldn't stop laughing!

DJ wearing the Duck Dynasty beard!! Everyone got a good laugh out of it!!

2. Cadence got her hair permed again this year. She loves it nice and curly. She told me she wanted it again and was ok to sit there good. She did fine, until we had to rinse the stinky stuff out again. She kind of freaked out. We found out later why. Her skin reacted to it on her forehead. It left burn marks. Poor girl. She was happy with the end result though.

Getting her hair up in the curlers.

The waiting process!

Cute Cadence with her nice curly hair!!

All ready for school. I love her hair!!

3. DJ has some crazy moments, when it`s just me and him at home. He just wants to wrestle with someone. I usually do for a bit. But he would wrestle for hours if I let him. So one day I grabbed him Cadence`s big teddy bear and he wrestled for awhile with it. Funny boy!

I think the bear is taking DJ down here!

Crazy boy, wrestled with this bear for a long time!

4. Took the kids to get their teeth cleaned a couple of weeks ago. I picked the girls up at lunch time and we went straight to the dentist office. We went to Shelley`s office again. All my kids do awesome there. They all got their teeth cleaned. So proud of all of them!! They were all cavity free too!

Aunt Shelley cleaning DJ`s teeth.

DJ wasn`t too sure about this part......but he did good!

Cadence getting her teeth cleaned. She was very brave!

Aunt Shelley and Cadence!

My 4 kids who were cavity free! Yeah!

Crazy faces! They were spoiled by their Aunt Shelley!!

5. One Saturday it was super nice out and my kids wanted to go do something. We cleaned all morning then I took them to the Fish Pond to play at the new park. They loved it. It was so nice out, I took a few pictures of each of them. Love the fall time.

6. Abbi was home sick one day and was bored. So we made some cupcakes. Then when the other two came home from school we iced the cupcakes and made them into spiders. It was super easy and they turned out really cute. It was a big hit!!

Best picture ever! Cadence showing me what a spider looks like!

DJ being a spider too!

DJ so proud about his cool looking spider cupcakes!

Brianna showing me her cute, perfect, looking spiders!!

Abbi so happy about her spiders!!

The best part, eating the spiders!!!

7. One Saturday we had Cody's kids come over for a few hours. I had a cute little shadow with me all morning and afternoon! Little Evan would follow me around. He is such a cutie!! Then last week I had Keira come over for the morning, while her mom taught school. She was a cute little shadow too! I think I tuckered her out. She was starting to fall asleep with her forehead against the window. She was watching DJ play in the snow. What a cutie!!

Evan, loved sitting at the piano and playing.

Keira was so cute. She walked around and kept switching her snack to different cups and bowls!

8. One afternoon DJ came up to me and wanted me to show him how to write his name. We've practised a few times before. So I did his names in dots and he sat at the breakfast bar and worked hard at writing his name. So cute. He then told me he wanted to write the letter h and the number 9. He sat there and worked hard probably for 20 minutes or so!

He was hard at work practising his name. I love that its so easy and short!!

He was super proud of himself!! Love him!

9. Last Sunday it snowed and snowed and snowed. The kids went out three times that afternoon. It was like Christmas for them.

The kids out making their snowmen!! They had so much fun playing in the snow!

There's all four of them working on making big snow balls!

DJ out playing in the snow!

10. Every Monday afternoon DJ and I go to Parent Pre School. This is his third year and he really loves it now. One Monday we had to go to the College for the program. He was a little nervous with all the people around. But he had so much fun in their PPP room. They had a lot of different toys and centers. The moms had to go sit in "The Cave". When I told DJ, after I got him, he thought that was so cool. He kept calling it the Bear Cave. Probably because of the big bear in the entrance way!! He had to get a picture beside it. He loved going there!

DJ thought this bear was super cool!!

DJ was trying to act like a bear!