Tiny Dancer

I'm going to be honest, it has been a really tough month for me. Life has just been a little too much sometimes to handle. So today I am thankful for little things that make me happy. Today I got to go watch Brynnli dance in dance class (which we only get to do once a month) and it made me happy. She is such a happy girl at dance class. I am so thankful for her.

Brynnli and her best friend Izzie

I am also thankful for Grandma who came to watch (which made Brynnli's day) and took pictures for me, since my hands were full with Cole. Thank you!!!

Suprise! and Fancy Nancy

So....we went back again one more time.... to Disney. We couldn't help it. The Christmas decorations were up.... and Rick came home at six from work and I had secretly packed all the stuff and after dinner we told the kids we were leaving for Disney. It was really fun suprising them. That's all I'll say about it, since we've gone a bazillion times....but our passes are officially expired now and we're going to take a year off.

My friend Kim's parents introduced us to fancy Nancy on Halloween, and ever since then I keep spotting her at our house......couldn't resist.

Football

Rick got free tickets from a friend for the Miami Hurricanes game this weekend, so we decided to take Carson and Brynnli and leave little Cole man with the grandparents. It was beautiful weather due to our first "cold front" and the kids loved it!

Brynnli's favorite thing: The "duck" otherwise known as the Ibis and mascot, and of course, the cheerleaders who, as she put it, kept "shaking their bum like I do in dance class."

Carson's favorite: watching the football game. He wanted to know everything about how the game worked, and was very disappointed when we left mid third quarter to put Brynnli down for her nap.

My favorite thing was that we all had matching shirts (not that you can tell by the picture....) which was so fun to me. Little Cole was all bundled up for the first time and had a blast with Grandma and Grandpa! I have to say though, the kids (and me...) were very sad about leaving Cole behind to go to the game at first. We love the little guy.

Halloweenish

We did our usual stop by the pumpkin patch a few days prior to Halloween.... we went to a different one than usual and boy were we glad we did...............Who knew that the kids could get a wagon ride from none other than Michael Jackson himself (we weren't sure if he was in costume or not.....) Brynnli was pretty suspicious and looked very relieved when the ride was over. Since Halloween was on a Sunday this year we layed pretty low. We carved our pumpkin and then headed over to our friends the Wernlis so that the kids could hand out candy together. I really think they had more fun doing that than they would've trick or treating....and those kids that came to the door lucked out...Carson was pretty generous (to say the least)

Here's the little Colester....poor guy had a double ear infection this weekend....what a trooper. And in case you're wondering.... Brynnli is extremely unexcited about sitting still for pictures....we do love her just as much as the other two:)

Trunk or Treats

We took the kids to two trunk or treats at church this year. The first one was in our friends Chris and Kim's ward. Up until that night I was under the impression that Brynnli was dressing up at Snow White and Carson as a fireman.....but they ended up as...

Cinderella and her handsome prince....if I'd only known I would've tried to coordinate Cole's costume (or lack of costume that night....)

For our ward.....Carson was a fireman, Brynnli was Snow White, and Cole was a Dalmatian

It was so much fun!! The kids were so cute !