Can you guess?

"It's a jolly holiday with Mary!" Can you guess what we are doing on this "holiday" night??

Happy day before All Saint's Day!

At the Park

We really have some great parks to play at. Thanks Renns for inviting us to "supper at the Park!"

family fun night??

What did you do this Saturday night?  I'm not sure that this classifies as a "family fun night" but J let the kids watch a part of the "Transformers" movie, (a small part!)  They thought it was pretty cool!  Hans has received some Transformers for his birthday and just got a new one when Grandma Sandy was here this week so he thought it was very cool to see his toys put to action in the movie.  His toys actually look the same as the robots in the movie so he was really into it.  

Karina made Hans this awesome Transformers cake for his birthday!  Don't we have some talented cake decorators in the family!!  Thanks again Karina.

I could look into this face all day long!  5 yrs. old already...

It did rain almost all day today but we still went down to the Fire Station for the kids events this morning.  They do this every year where the kids can do all kinds of fun stuff, sit in the firetruck, ride the firetruck, spray the hose, go in the smoke house, this year they had a phone to practice dialing 911 and a car simulating a crash.  We saw how the dummies fly out right away when they are not wearing their seat belts.  It was pretty neat.

Not sure where this week went but I do need to say a big "thank you" to both Grandma Sandy and Grandma Linda for coming this week!!  What a treat to have both Grandma's in one week!  

Sadie's Soapy Saturday

Our "part-time" dog who we share with Grandma and Grandpa returned to us for a couple of weeks and last Saturday the whole family had some part in cleaning our pooch.  I love how crazy dogs get when they're clean.

Trying to get that dirty smell back!

Isn't she cute!  I sure wish it was that beautiful this Sat. it rained almost all day!

Happy Birthday Marge!

Happy Birthday Marge!  I'll take this opportunity to add a few pictures from our reunion in July.  Unfortunately, I didn't get the greatest pictures from that weekend, but it sure was fun!

The ladies got to go out for coffee and shopping!

Violet is absolutely adorable!

What a great idea, the kids loved it!  Hope we can do it again soon!  Oh, and I'm excited to go through the clothes mom brought back.  Gracia has been dressing in the clothes she got from Violet this summer and loving it!  Thank you!  Happy Birthday, here's to a great year!!

Seven!

Sunday was her actual birthday so we had the Renns, Loehleins, and Vera over for some horse cake!!  (Thanks to master cake decorator, Jeremy, he must have a little Grandma Erickson in him.)

I can't believe that she is seven!  We are so thankful for her.


Thanks everyone for the fun day!

sleep-over

Last Friday Damaris got to have her friend Kylen spend the night for her birthday - mom decided she would enjoy one friend spending the night better than 9 friends running crazy for two hours! - I think I was right!  Hans however did not have much fun as he feels extremely left out whenever Damaris has a friend over.  I put him to work helping me cut up candy corn for popcorn balls, he thought my new knife was pretty neat, in fact while he was cutting he said, "this is a cool knife mom!" 

Hans didn't last long so Damaris and Kylen took their turn too.

Notice the outfit Karina?  I let her open your package on Thursday night and had it washed up by Friday morning!  She loves it!  Thank you!

For the record, the girls were up 'till 11:20!!  And so it begins...