Catch-Up..........

Wow! It's been a while since I was on here and updated anything (not to say I haven't been looking at other blogs). Let's see, since September we have been doing the school thing, including some awesome field trips! Shaylie is still doing her class at Throwdown (when we actually make it there). We are also enjoying Activity Days. Marc is still busy as ever at work! He has also been training a lot more with Ricky Lundell and improving by leaps and bounds with his Ju Jitsu. I have just been being a mom and loving every minute of it! I help in each of the girls classes each week and try to go on their field trips. In September Marc surprised the girls with a trip up to Lagoon! We had a blast and ended up going back up the next weekend and used our "bounceback" passes. On our second excursion Shaylie's best friend Taylor went with us. We had a blast and are looking forward to going again next summer. We had a great Halloween which consisted of some tasty pizza at Great Grandma Messick's house (pretty much a yearly tradition), and some trick-or-treating, plus a Halloween party the weekend before at a neighbors. Marc's Grandad passed away in October so we had an unexpected trip to Arizona for the memorial. Our Thanksgiving was wonderful and low key (just like I like it)! Great food, family, games, relaxing ......... what more do you need? Here are some pictures from the past couple months! Hopefully I will be better at updating instead of doing "catch-up" posts every few months.

McKinley and Shaylie by the fountain at Lagoon!

L to R: Taylor, Shaylie and McKinley on the Music Express!

Marc and Shaylie on the BLAST OFF!! Shaylie was nervous but ended up enjoying it quite a bit!

McKinley and Mommy!

McKinley, Taylor and Shaylie enjoying a nice treat while at Lagoon!

Marc and I at our VERY much deserved Ruby River dinner after Lagoon with 3 kiddos!

Shaylie - The cutest red-headed Ninja around! McKinley - My little Pirate Princess!

McKinley and her pumpkin (Yes, her hair is partly colored from a Halloween party earlier that evening.) Also, if you look close you can see that she is missing 2 teeth!

Shaylie and her pumpkin! This year she drew the design, cleaned out the gunk, and carved it pretty much on her own.

The girls cute pumpkins!

L to R: Shaylie, Kambre, Great Grandma Winni holding Karter, Kallie, and McKinley