The holiday's are upon us!

Kaylin's Thanksgiving lunch at school, they were so cute in their Indian costumes.

Alyssa had to have her nails painted and was so proud of them, she is getting so big.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

This week has been the big holiday kick off! I love the holiday season. With thanksgiving, and Christmas, and my big beautiful tree, and my birthday smoshed in there I LOVE IT!!! We had a great Thanksgiving with my family. It was very quite and I missed my brother and sister, but I know they missed home even more. And say what you may but I live for the Black Friday shopping mania. I love the looking through the ads and making my lists and forming my game plan. For a planner this is like Christmas or the Super Bowl; yes I went there. Now I'm not crazy, I don't get up at 4:00am and stand in line and fight for crazy things. But I love the opportunity to get 85% of my shopping done at one time and save over 50% on EVERYTHING, especially since time is a rare commodity I don't have a lot of. Don't believe me, you say we are all busy; I have three test and a check off between now and Dec. 9, my sister gets her the 7th for Christmas with her family and me and Stefan are going skiing the 17th, not a lot of time to get shopping done.
Now that Thanksgiving is done, most of the shopping is done it is time for the tree and it is going up this weekend and yes it takes all weekend. If you have seen my tree you know it is a process and doesn't just pop up. It has to be put together, the branches have to be fluffed, the 10 light strands put on, and finally I get to decorate it and it is gorgeous. After we finish I will show you what I am talking about with all the steps, except the putting together step, Stefan and the girls did that last night and I fluffed this morning, but I'll show you the lights and the grand finale.

Why I hate night time thunderstorms!

I used to love falling asleep to the piter patter of the rain and the flashes of lightning, but not any more. That was all before kids, now night time storms are a nightmare. Let me let you in on how last night went, for those of you who don't have kids or your kids don't wake up, we had some big storms last night.
Stefan comes to bed around midnight saying I can't stay up any more and she won't go to sleep. Me I have no clue which one he is talking about, I assume it was Kaylin and go to sleep until not much later comes Alyssa's coughing and I realized he was talking about Alyssa not kaylin. The coughing and moving around continued until 3:00 when I took her to bed and promised there was no more thunder, never make that promise. Little did I know there would be more, very loud thunder about an hour later. Back asleep, an hour later, CRASH and MOMMY. Now every one is up because Alyssa is screaming, her pull up has leaked, thank God in her own bed and not mine!! What am I to do? Neither one of them was about to sleep in there own room at this point and there is no way all four of us can fit on our Queen bed? Get blankets and pillows, they can sleep on the floor. All is well at this point, even through the loud crash they are fine. The grand finale to the night was 5:45 Alyssa starts coughing again, I looking at the clock thinking we have to get up soon any way, I will just ignore it and wait it out. Great idea except it stopped and we all finally feel to a peaceful sleeping place, until, 7:40, GOTTA GET UP and the morning school rush was on. I gotta give myself props though, I had Kaylin dressed, lunch made, and breakfast in hand to walk out the door in 10 min, granted there was a lot of screaming on both our parts and she forgot to go potty before she left, oh well, no body's perfect.

Fall Fun!!!

I realized I haven't updated my pictures in a while when it had over 100 pictures on my camera to upload to the camera, oops. I have soccer, Cindy's visit, pumpkin carving with Grampa, and Halloween, so here you go, here is the last months in pictures, ENJOY!!!!

First Kaylin got to play goalie and did really well, she block 2 goals and did a great job throwing the ball back out.

Then, there was Cindy's visit. The girls got to all ride bikes together. Makayla got to have lunch with Kaylin at Kindergarten, and me and Cindy did lots of fun stuff on my day off, my favorite day of the week, FRIDAY!!!

Just try and get four girls ages 2, 3, 4, and 5 to sit and smile at the same time, this is pretty good!The best part of all was the pumpkin carving. My dad, aka, Grampa, and Stefan had a carving contest and all the girls got to help clean the pumpkins out, well really just Kaylin and Makayla, the younger two were having nothing to do with the dirty stuff.

Go for it Kaylin, she was the only one to dig in with the spoon but once it was hands only she too bailed out leaving the truly dirty work to Stefan and Grampa.

After pumpkins it was time for Halloween. We went to Shreek on the Creek at a Church near our house. They had bounce houses, games and a cool train ride around the parking lot. Judging by Alyssa's priceless grin I would say the train was her favorite part.

All in all life is good. Kaylin has now lost both her bottom two front teeth and she is reading,which thrills me to no end. Alyssa is cute as usual and growing by the minute, she seems to have by passed 3T straight to 4T, which is great except all the 3T clothes I bought for this winter won't fit by Christmas. Work is great for Stefan and school is crazy but rapping up for this semester. You can't even imagine how excited I am about two weeks off before the girls get out and one week off after they go back, tree weeks of FREEDOM, I soooooooo can't wait!!