The days (& nights) with the boys!

We had an amazingly good time. Especially considering I had a 6, 5, 4 & 2.5 year old all in the same house, and for most of the time Duaine was also out of town!
Yes things were incredibly busy, but for the most part it is my own kids that are the pain in the but kids. I had no behavioral problems with Keri's boys, and they actually listen far better than my own kids. I even think they had a positive affect on the way my kids listen!

Halie & Hayden were quite a pair. In fact the majority of the fighting that went on was because my kids were fighting over who got to sit next to, sleep by, or play with Hayden!

Luckily during the time that Duaine was gone Dawnie came over two night to help me get the kids in bed, and one night my sweet grandma came and slept over to help. It was so helpful, I am not sure I could have done it without them!! Thanks guys!

(yes there are like 2" of frosting and decorating here!)

And even with all that sugar they were great!

We did tons of projects, and Keri left gifts for each day, and we ate a lot of fast food, and now it is strangely quiet around my house!

All I have heard for the past 2 days is "I want Hayden & Carsen back at my house" or " When are Carsen & Hayden coming back to our house?"

We love Carsen & Hayden!

I had to throw this pic in here because Sierra's funny face really captured the true way I felt trying to be a mother of 4!

October has come and gone...

Do you ever get the strange feeling that you are just watching your life pass you by? That was how October was for me. It went by so fast that I feel like I was not even there for a lot of it. Weird. We were busy as normal, and did many fun things.


Classic pic of first thing in the morning at the cabin. There is now furniture there, and it is so close to being done that we are planning Thanksgiving there! This weekend Sierra abandoned her favorite sleeping spot (with Grandma & Papa) and opted to sleep with Mandaline and her cousin. That is until she woke up in the middle of the night. So Sierra held the flashlight for me to carry her princess cot down the stairs into Grandma & Papa's room where she spent the rest of the night! What would we do without Grandparents!

This is our little bunch of Trick or treaters. My girls love Keri's boys so much that they are more like siblings than cousins. They went trick or treating on Keri & Mike's street, and since it was raining and they live on a big hill the dads loaded the kids onto the Rhino and went house to house on the Rhino!

Backwards order I know, but could they get any cuter! We even grew these killer pumpkins in our garden!

This is from the Playgroup Halloween Party at our house. Thomas is really Cole Lloyd, and Halie loves him. They were inseparable that day. Halie is always proclaiming "I love Coco" Sorry Kelli, I just cant get her to say Cole Cole.

For once we got our whole family in one pic. This is in Mandaline's house. She got baptised this month. Grandma Helen said the opening prayer, Uncle Adam baptised her and Grandma Doris said the closing prayer. At one point Adam described Mandaline as the connecting piece of a very large family, and I really like that description. She definitely is the connecting piece. It was cool to see all those people there - many I did not know - who were all there because they love Mandaline.

Overall it was a busy month, and November is coming roaring in as well. I have one & a half more days as a mother of three, then Carsen and Hayden become my boys for a few days as Keri & Mike go on an awesome cruise! So there is no slowing down :)