Happy Halloween!!!

At the Fall Festival at chapel tonight – I’m not crazy enough to try to take all four trick or treating when its –2 out! We went to the nice warm chapel!

The clown and balloon flowers!

At home checking out the stash

One piece before bed!

Oh wait, Maddie, you’re not included!

What momma, I can’t have candy too?

Its okay, I’ll just come try to eat your camera!

And the girls new haircuts – courtesy of moi!

the backs

and mine

Sierra had 11-12 inches and I had 10-11 inches to donate to the Locks of Love!

The Exodus – Little People Style!

The other day we watched The Prince of Egypt

So that took us to the Israelites crossing the Red Sea

 

Today we finished acting out the Exodus to the Ten Commandments

I thought it would be cute to take pictures of the girls. They had fun of course – score one for Mommy for thinking of using their favorite toy – Little People!

Israelites getting ready to cross the Red Sea – see Karis’ face, she was the Pharaoh telling the Israelites that she was going to catch them and kill them!

Moses parted the Red Sea with his staff and the people started crossing

At the oasis of Marah where the water was bitter the people were complaining.  So Moses threw a piece of wood in the water (that would be the pencil – Sierra’s idea – lol) to make it drinkable

In the wilderness with no food and complaining (again? Sierra asked) and the Lord sent manna (bread) and quail for food

 

At Rephidim, where there was no water, and surprise surprise, they were complaining!! So God let water flow from a rock.

And then Moses went up on the mountain and brought down the Ten Commandments, we wrote them out for the girls to study.

Next week – the Tabernacle – I’m a little intimidated, we will be building one from a design in the curriculum – wish us luck!

Sierra will do anything to keep from going to sleep.

I always catch her reading by her nightlight so I’ve had to take the books out of her room! And this morning she showed me a piece of paper that she had written a note on last night. She found a piece of paper and a pencil and wrote this (not edited for spelling)

Sierra Nicole Wills and I love Jesus becase he can do iny thing.

I love Jesus and he is our father and he is also our saver (savior) and I love what Jesus made and I love that Jesus love us all wase (always) helps us and he is so grate and he is powerfol and he loves us and he is sterong and Jesus loves all the pepol and God is all wase by our side and when we are sad God makes us happy and when its Chrismes it is Jesus Birthday and we silubirat (celebrate) and we eat cake and we sing Happy Birthday and I am gune writ it

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birhday to Jesus

Happy Birthday to Jesus!

On one hand I’m proud of her writing – especially about Jesus! On the other hand – THE CHILD NEEDS TO GO TO BED!!!! She wrote a few other paragraphs on girl scouts and stuff too – sheesh!

Here are her other writings

I love Jenufur (the cadett girl scout that is the leaders daughter and helps the girls) and I love every body but I do not love bad guys or bad women. I onle love good polpoel (people) but mostle I love Jesus and Jesus is our father and saver.

Gril Scouts Octber 30 2009

Sierr (dork spelled her name wrong!) is a leder and we need every gril because we love gril scouts and it is fun because evereething is fun and we laern ubout gril scouts and it is fun and I love that Jesus made gril scouts.

Looks like I also need to teach her to spell girl!

Cooking, Moose, and Well Baby

The first weekend in October the library had a Book’em and Cook’em for the kids.  They had a story time where 2 books about pancakes were read.  Then the kids made chef hats, and then they got to mix their own pancake mix and eat them up.

And even Maddie enjoyed eating the pancakes. The girls made chocolate chip pancakes.  And then put syrup, whip cream, grape jelly and sprinkles on it – um… yum?  Hey, they ate them!

This Friday we pulled out of our garage and Sierra screamed, MOM! There are moose!! Apparently it NEVER gets old! LOL!  So I drove to around the culdesac and took pictures

 

A Momma moose and her two babies.  They’ve been eating in our yard a few times this week, and they have destroyed one tree in the front.  Here they are out back a few weeks before

 

And Maddie had her 6 month check up. Am I a bad mom because I didn’t even pay attention when they told me how much she weighed and how long she was… oops! Wait, I think they gave me a paper – lemme check.  Oh good.  For the Grandmas:  She is 65 cm tall, in the 25%tile. 15lb 7oz, 25%tile and 43.5cm head circumference, 75%tile.  LOL! What a FAT HEAD!

Evolution of a Turtle

So Maddie used to be our little Turtle head!  Straining her neck up, trying hard to keep it high and look around to see what’s going on around here.

 

Isn’t she adorable!!!  Such a cute little Turtle-head.  But she has evolved, and apparently the next step is FROGGIE!!! 

Maddie now gets up on her hands and knees and rocks back and forth and then projects herself forward like a little leap frog!

 

The Snow is Officially Here!

Christmas Wish Lists!

Hey, I know its only September, but when you have 4 to shop for, you have to start early!

So I’ve been gleaning the girls Christmas wish lists from them… here are the answer’s I’ve gotten (note, they have been asked separate from each other over the course of a few days):

 

Me: Sierra, what are some thing you would like for Christmas?

Sierra: I really really want a cell phone!

Me: Uh huh… what else?

Sierra: Or an ipod, but really a cell phone!

Me: anything else?

Sierra: um.. a Wii, a cell phone, an ipod, and some DS games!

Me: okay, well, I’m not buying anything on that list!!

Sierra: that’s okay, I’ll ask Grandma Patty for a Wii!

**Didja hear that Grandma Patty – she thinks you’re made of money! LOL!)

 

Me: Karis, what do you think you want from Mommy and Daddy for Christmas

Karis: Um, either an ipod or a DS… hey, you said if I count to 10 I can get a DS! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven (she pauses and I start to worry!) eight…… (uh oh! we told her she could get a DS if she counted to 10!) um… Mommy, what comes next (PHEW!)

**Which I’m going to have to TOTALLY get her to change her mind, because that stubborn little girl still has about 3 months to learn 9 and 10, and she will for a DS!**

 

Me: hey Roo, what are some things you want for Christmas?

Ruby: um… I don’t know, whatever…

 

LOL! That is so Ruby!

 

So I’ve been doing some shopping, and I have Sierra done, Karis halfway, and nothing for Ruby or Maddie yet! EEK!

Daddy’s Last Night

  Dustin’s last night home he asked the girls what they wanted to play.  Their answer… FASHION SHOW!!! LOL! Gotta love a house full of girls.  I took about 100 pictures as I was the photographer.

The swimsuit competition!

 

Here come the Halloween costumes

Dead Snow White

Maddie was keeping Daddy company as the panel of judges.

Now its act silly time

Karis just turned Sierra into a cow (in case you were wondering)

 

 

We all had a blast, even though the house was trashed from costume changes. Dustin and I couldn’t stop laughing at all the silly things they did.  Especially Karis!  At dinner that night she said she wanted a Nintendo DS for Christmas.  I told her you have to be 5 to get a DS – she said she really wanted one.  So I told her, if you can count to 10 ALL BY YOURSELF you can get a DS.  You should of seen her.  She counted 1 (holding up, one on both hands), then 2 (again, two on BOTH hands), 3, 4, and 5.  Then her eyes got all twinkly and she said looked at both her hands (which is 10 total fingers) and said 10!!!! NOW CAN I HAVE A DS!!!! LOL!