Fall Leaves!

Elijah, Emmaline, Josiah, Jeremiah and I had a great time last week raking up all the leaves in our front yard and jumping into the pile!  It had been very still the whole week prior so all the leaves from our tree ended up in our yard instead of blowing away.  Normally we don't need to rake up the leaves, we just leave them and the wind takes care of them for us!  We had a pretty good size pile going and the kids had fun burying each other, throwing the leaves up in the air and making "leaf angels" (snow angels in the leaves).  After the kids got tired of jumping in the leaves we played duck duck goose and freeze tag.  It was a lot of fun!

Some Various Pictures

Micah, 8 months, practicing his crawling

Mark and Emmaline, 4 1/2, at a birthday party

Josiah, 3, Elijah, 6, and Jeremiah, 23 months at the same birthday party

Elijah and Emmaline, playing together

Elijah and his "robot"

A Taste of Summer...

Today it was over 80 degrees here!  Hot, Hot, Hot!  It doesn't feel like fall at all, even though the leaves are all changing, and the pumpkins and fall decorations are all out.  Since it feels like summer I let the kids have popsicle's as a special treat and they were on cloud 9! (This really was today, I don't know why the date stamp is so off...)

Crawling!

Micah started crawling last week!  He is still getting the hang of the whole process, but he can get from one side of the room to the other in a relatively short amount of time!  I love to watch babies crawl, it gives them so much joy to be able to move and keep up with everyone else!  :-)  Micah also has mastered moving in our walker, he can zoom around in that very well!  He LOVES to be able to keep up with all his siblings!  Between the two things he is quite mobile for only 8 months!

Airshow

Last week we went to an air show/car show in Akron, CO.  It is about a 3 hour drive from here one way.  We left at 7:45 a.m. and arrived there about 10:30 a.m., just in time for the start of the show.  We got to see an F-16 fly, a wing walker, several aerobatic older planes do stunts, RC planes flying around, a World War II reenactment and tons of classic cars!  It was great fun, especially for Mark.  The only downside was the heat; over 90 and not a cloud in the sky!  We all came home with sunburns, mine was the worst, I looked like
a lobster!   

State Fair 2010

We went to the State Fair the end of August.  We try to go every year, and the kids love it!  They had such a good time!  :-)  Last year it rained and rained and we were all soaking wet by the time we went home.  This year the weather was beautiful, not too hot or cold, just perfect for a day outside!

Josiah was just tall enough to ride on the carnival rides this year and he was so excited he didn't want to stop even when he was exhausted!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anniversary

Mark and I celebrated our 7th anniversary last week! My parents were able to take the kids for a couple of days so we were able to be alone for the most part (Micah is still nursing so he had to come with us). It was so nice! We went to a hotel one night and also went mini golfing, out for ice cream, swimming, hiking at Helen Hunt Falls and out to dinner at Jake and Telly's (a greek restaurant in Old Colorado City). We had a great time! I'm already looking forward to next year...

Growing up so fast...

Elijah lost his first baby tooth! He came to me one day and said "Look mom!" and showed me that his baby tooth was just hanging on by a thread. About 2 minutes later, pop! out it came. He was so proud, he showed everyone and told everyone that he was getting "grown up". He even put it under his pillow and was AMAZED to find a quarter there in it's place the next morning. :-) Since then we had to go and get his other front tooth pulled because his adult teeth came in behind his baby teeth and the baby tooth wouldn't come out on it's own. He is growing up so fast...

4th of July

For the 4th we went over to a friends house for the afternoon and evening. We all had a great time! Our friend barbequed and we all brought picnic type sides. Our kids had so much fun playing with all the kids that were there. It rained buckets in the evening but they still did some fireworks at the Air Force Academy that we were able to watch from the back deck. It was a great day!!!

Micah newest acheivement

This week Micah started rolling over! He rolls from his back to his stomach and once he gets there he can't get back so he just starts crying! He seems so young to me to be rolling over but I guess it's just because I'm not ready for him to be growing up at all. He also shows interest in table food but I am NOT going to start him on solids yet!