-November-
As we approach Thanksgiving I think about all of the things I am thankful for...family & friends, my health, my loving husband and wonderful children!! It just amazes me how fast my children are growing up. The other night at the dinner table we asked who wanted to pray and Karson said that he wanted to pray (which is not his thing). It brought tears to my eyes to hear the things that were truely important to him. Parenting is never an easy thing but when you hear those types of things you have to tell yourself that you must be doing something right!!!
November has turned out to be a wonderful month. Kerry and I were able to go to Kinnick to watch the Hawkeyes. We had fun even though they lost...a real bummer. We are also going this next weekend and will be on the field which I am very excited about!!! The kids are doing great. Kamryn turned 3 on the 16th. We celebrated early with family. It was fun to watch her this year. She really understood that it was "her" day!!!
Karson is of course looking forward to Christmas as I am sure many of your children are too. It was a wonderful time of year!!! Enjoy it!!!!

Happy Third Birthday Kamryn!!! I can hardly believe that you are 3 already. Boy how the time has flown by.

Kamryn was really excited to blow out her candles on her cake! I love the look on her face.

Kamryn wearing her new McQueen slippers. She wears them all of the time!!!

-October-
It was a very crummy month here in Minnesota. We didn't get too much of a fall for the snow fell way too soon. The leaves weren't even given a chance to change before the snow fell. Of course Kamryn and Karson were loving the snow as mom was thinking "this is going to be a very long winter." We still tried to do our annual fall festivities!!! We made our ghost cookies, went to the pumpkin patch (however it was a different one this year and I wasn't impressed), and of course dressed up and went trick-or-treating. It was very cold on Halloween so we only went down our rode and then over to grandma & grandpa Lindsay's. This year Karson decided that he wanted to be a Lego. So mom worked on his costume and it turned out pretty well for a lego. Kamryn she wanted to be Lightning McQueen and for the life of me and Grandma Dee we couldn't find one. Then I ran into an old friend and we were talking about what the kids were going to be for halloween and long and behold she had a McQueen costume. Kamryn loved it and didn't want to give it back!!!
It was a fun month!!!!

Kamryn at the Harvest Festival dressed as McQueen!

Now it that we had found our pumpkins it was time to crave them. It was a cool chilly day but we decided to start the craving outside. The kiddos got cold so we moved inside. I always find it funny that the kids are so excited to crave their pumpkins and then they last about 10 minutes and mom is left with craving the rest of the pumpkins. Karson wanted Darth Vader and Kamryn wanted a kitty. It was really hard finding Darth Vader so I did what I could.

Kamryn wanting to go in the corn maze.

Kamryn trying to find her pumpkin!!!

Karson picking out his pumpkin. It was a hard decision.

Karson working hard on his cookies!!!

She also ate alot of the chocolate chips...my kind of girl!!

Kamryn stirring her cookies!!!

Karson and Kamryn working on their ghost cookies.

Karson enjoying the early snow fall.

Kamryn getting Karson back for throwing snow at her. Like I said the girl can hold her own!!!

My little snow bunny!!

Karson and Kamryn playing in the October snow!!!!

Karson looking for something under a rock at the Nature Center. The picture below is of his class at the nature center.

-September 2009-
Karson started his last year of preschool. He is currently going to Trinity Nursery School 4 days a week from 12:00-2:30. After a long debate Kerry and I decided that it was be in Karson's best interest if he waited one extra year before heading to kindergarten. Boy, do I feel like we made the right decision. I have seen so much growth in him in the last couple of months it is unbelieveable. He coming home reading sight words and doing simple math problems. I love watching him grow yet at times it is sad to me how fast he is growing up.
His preschool class took a field trip to a local nature center. It was really neat to watch the his class and how they interact with one another.
Kamryn she is also growing up way too fast. She is not a "girly" girl at all. In fact, right now her favorite things are McQueen and Sally from the movie Cars. She adores her big brother and follows in his foot-steps. If she keeps the personality she has now she won't take NO for an answer. She is such a sweet little girl but boy can she hold her own!!!