One morning we had an animal party...all stuffed animals in the house were invited. It was to celebrate Jaron's bear's birthday (Frankie). They played duck duck goose and you should've heard the laughter this brought. I guess it was just enough of a change from just them playing duck duck goose. Also, Jaron's coloring has made a huge improvement this month. I swear in a just a week or 2 he has gone from scribbling in one color to using multiple colors and staying in the lines. Even his preschool teacher commented on how well he colored his cornucopia for Thanksgiving.
We had Holland and Tagg over one afternoon. And in typical fashion, the girls were running around catching butterflies (or grasshoppers because those are easier) and of course the boys stood around digging in the dirt. Cute friends.
Just a few pictures of things Jaron does while the girls are at preschool. He loves to lay on my bed while I shower and play his tablet. We also do a lot of alphabet games and this was him lining up and counting his cheerios (he can count to about 19) The other thing he loves to play with these days are all his hot wheel cars.
Shane's sister Margene sold her house here and bought an 8-plex in South Dakota. So Shane helped her drive the truck out and unpack one weekend. So while he was gone I planned a few fun things to do. My kids rarely (ok never) get to get into bed with us. Since Shane works late at night I always get up before the kids do so they come downstairs and don't bug him. So we snuggle on the couch each morning. So the kids were sooo excited when I told them to come snuggle in our bed while dad was away each morning. The girls had a birthday party and I took Jaron to Scheels to ride the ferris wheel. Then we went to see the move Trolls (which was soo cute I thought) and then to McDonalds for their Trolls happy meals. As we were driving home Siena said to me 'Mom, we are having so much fun with dad being gone.' When I asked her what her favorite part was she said the party. I thought she meant the birthday party she had been to that day. She quickly corrected me and said 'no, the party in your bed this morning.' haha...cute! Sunday my parents had us over for dinner and my kids thought it was crazy that we were the only ones there that night (they're used to having all their cousins there and rarely do we go over where no one else is there.) We all survived the weekend but I was happy when Shane made it home safely.
We had our first snowfall in November. The kids were soooo excited to go out and play. They love to shovel snow, it's their favorite snow activity right now The snow was really soft so our snowman was pretty weak. I've got to get some better snowman making skills going.
I have to show off a few of Jaron's preschool pictures. The girls will never pose with the cute hats and things they make in pre-school so I have to post Jaron's at least. They all made a Thanksgiving book but I got the cutest video of Jaron 'reading' his. His little voice saying each line was the cutest!
We had a great Thanksgiving. We went to my parents. Only us and Jennifer and her kids came this year. It was fun though because we all got to sit at the table together. My kids even ate on my mom's china! Earlier that day we all went and saw Moana. It was cute and I loved the music in it. This was the only picture we took on Thanksgiving. Oh, and I took a picture of Ashlee who spent a lot of time making a yummy berry pie.
Our pass of all passes we got have been a big hit this summer. And we continue to use them a lot. We went to the North Pole Express at Seven Peaks in Provo. They had some slides to go down (which my kids did not want to do) But we went on a boat ride around the lazy river, a train ride around some light displays and a bike ride through The Nutcracker story book. And of course we had to visit Santa. I was happy to get rid of the 'lists' my kids kept writing to Santa, they were getting longer and longer each time they thought of something they wanted. It was a pretty cold night because it was windy but we had a lot of fun and the kids keep talking about how much fun it was.
The other day I was asked to conduct reindeer school. The kids are obsessed with these antlers and noses Jennifer gave them last year. They started asking to get them out well before Thanksgiving. And every day they play reindeer running around the house. So this day I conducted reindeer school. We sang Christmas songs, learned to prance, had jumping/flying practice and played follow the leader.
Siena is obsessed with doing crafts. I can't tell you how many times she asks me to think up a craft for her to do. She loves it. It's a good time of year for it because there are a lot of ideas out there. And while Margene was moving she stayed with us for 5 days and did lots of crafts with her. Unfortunately it causes a lot of strife with Aria. She likes to do the craft, but if one little thing with her craft goes wrong or doesn't turn out exactly how she wanted it to, she breaks down into tears. So it takes a little talking into before I take on a craft with them each day.
Aria though is all about print off pages. This girl will color a coloring page I print out for her all day long. Usually it's of a horse or unicorn. She always adds to the pictures and has some story about the picture she has made up while she has been coloring. I love to see her creativity come out.
This probably isn't a big deal to most people but this was huge for me this week. I took the kids to the library for a puppet show and at the beginning they always ask for a few volunteers to do something before the real show starts. This was the first time that not only did my girls go sit front and center in the room while I sat in the back (I always have to sit right with them) but they both raised their hands to volunteer. Siena got picked and did a great job being up there. They both get nervous at things like this and in primary when one of them gets called up they always bring their sister along for moral support. So I was proud of them both. Aria was sad she didn't get called up but stayed sitting so that was great for them both!
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