Sweet

The kids sure do love balloons.

 I have lots of favorite Christmas dresses, but this is probably 1 of my more favorites.

 He was a bit tired after church.

Fun food, silly boy

Just an FYI when making our family of 7 hot chocolate and peanut butter toast: 6 cups of hot chocolate and 1 bottle of whole milk and 18 pieces of peanut butter toast and 5 buttered toast. 

 Matt found Briggs playing peek a boo with the cabinet and it was pretty funny.

Fun girly girl

Lucy has her outfit for school picked out a few days before school.  She has the entire outfit from headband to shoes. 

 Josey even lets Lucy dress her up sometimes.

This little guy

LOVES his cars.  He loves to throw them and push them and throw them and talk to them.

SO CUTE!

Growing too fast

My kids are growing up too fast and it is such a bummer I can't slow time down. 

Ben wanted his hair spiked.

 As well as Brigham's.  In Brighams defense, he got out of the shower and his hair did it on it's own.

 He loves remotes.

 My spunky bunch.

 Pretty girls

 Ben and Jo love to be crazy together.

 He totally takes after his dad!

 Best buds

Seriously?

I need to make a side bar of all the crazy things I say that I never thought would come out of my mouth.  Today for instance "Josey why is there an apple in your hat?"  Her response was simply "why not mom, I will eat it later".  Most days I just have to shake my head and move on to the next crazy thing. 
Oh today Brigham actually signed "more" instead of clapping and yelling at me. 

Smile

This little dude is so smiley and happy.  It is such a joy having him and watching him grow.  He is starting to get more curious and disregards when mommy says "no".  When I tell him no, he will laugh and go ahead and do it. 

 Besties

 He loves his food.  His normal lunch is a sandwich, cheese stick, apple or another fruit (he doesn't like bananas at all).

 He loves watching the neighbor boys play.

Veterans Day

Matt had today off, so we got some much needed things done: cleaned out the gutters, raked the leaves in the front yard, packed up the outdoor stuff for winter, checked the loft and in between got 3 kids to and from school and homework done.  While we were outside, Briggs and Jo had fun on the swings.

Dancing girls

They wanted their picture taken and wanted to dance for them.

Growing up too fast

Ally seems to be growing up so much lately.

I wish she'd stay 8 for a few more years!

Warm and cute

He was super cute in his sweater today at church.

 He was so excited to come home and get back to playing with his cars.