Please meet our newest family member....

We are happy to introduce you to our newest family member {at least for 4 days}. Someone is very excited about this new addition....Clifford the Big Red Dog...in this case, little red dog!

Here are Noah's little friends....in order Clifford, Bolt, Baby Jaguar & Millie.

These little friends do a lot with our little man....Millie has been around since BEFORE Noah was born...he named her one day {after a visit to Grandma Judi's...could it be because she has a cat named Millie??} Baby Jaguar was named after a marathon Go Diego Go.....Bolt, well no explanation is necessary on that one {his name tag says so!}....then CLIFFORD!!!

Noah's teacher, Ms. Melissa, LOVES Clifford! There are little, medium & big Cliffords all around her classroom. Once a week, one child is picked to take Clifford home for the weekend. He has his own special little box & he gets to experience "your life" for 3 whole days. By mistake the box was given to Noah today, so he gets 4 WHOLE days!!! You could not believe how excited he was when I went to pick him up. He was a great little man today, well......except for the incident where I found him standing on the bathroom counter peeing into the toilet.....WAS not happy about that. He said he was just washing his hands....ANYWAYS...that was way off the subject!!! So Clifford gets to hang out with Noah, we will take more pictures, we have to write in the Class Clifford Journal & we will return him to school on Monday morning. Noah is a little concerned about the whole returning process.

{Clifford, please be nice to my fish.....we have a hard enough time keeping them alive!}
{Clifford going to the mailbox & carrying it back to the house}

{Stay tuned to see what exciting adventures await all of us during the next 4 days!!}

Trick or Treat Projects

About a month ago I went to a warehouse with my sister & Mom. The company is called Pinecone Press & they design their own product & at their warehouse they have a small store. They have really cute projects that are displayed all over the store. So I took one of their ideas & ran with it. Noah helped me pick out the papers & we made these cute bottles. He has already picked out which two he wants to bring to school for his two teachers. The only problem is EVERY day he asks for his "trick or treat" project....he really just wants the candy!

Our little helper

This kid was the best helper tonight! He helped in the decision as to what we should have for dinner. He helped me pick out some meat from our freezer, he picked the marinade & then decided we were having "corn in the cob" & HE would be "making" it for me.

I guess that's why he actually ate his entire meal....because he picked it. Maybe that should be our new routine, because lately, he has not been wanting to eat.

Too cute!

{ALOHA}

Greetings from Hawaii.....

We are actually home after a beautiful tropical week in Hawaii with my entire family. There were 21 of us....10 children and 11 adults. We had a great time. Swimming in the pool, snorkeling in the ocean, watching the seals on the beach, swimming with turtles, playing in the sand {kids, that is}, eating delicious food, having family pictures taken, sleeping in, trying to stay up until at least 10pm {not an easy task}, playing with Noah {with no interuptions}, watching movies, walking on the beach & just enjoying our time together.

I.LOVE.MY.FAMILY!!!

We always have such a great time on trips together. I am very blessed to have good relationships with all of my siblings & my parents. I love them so much.

There are so many pictures they I do not even know where to begin. SO....I'm going to post a few family pictures from our photographer. In a couple of days I'll hopefully be able to put some of our favorite pictures up.

My brothers & sisters: Andrew, Christine, Paul, Deanna & Stephanie
Scott & Christine

The entire family

Scott, Christine & Noah
My Parents
Scott, Christine, Paul, Mom, Dad, Greg, Deanna, Stephanie, Hank, Tami & Andrew

My Family: Paul, Christine, Mom, Dad, Deanna, Stephanie & Andrew

All the Grandkids

My Parents & their Grandkids

{Aloha}

Life's A Beach....

I have been working hard {mostly at night} on completing my scrapbook pages from our trip to Hawaii last fall. After a lot of late nights I am proud to say: I DID IT!!!!

This is only a few of the layouts.

I didn't want to bore you!

I had to finish this because we are leaving in

5 days to go back to Hawaii...

I can't have two trips in my "to scrapbook" pile!!

ALOHA

Workin' Hard

{he really does help out, he's just takin' an iPod break}

Scott & Noah have been working real hard on the front yard. It seems like they are always changing something out there. This is part of the final landscape...the BIG picture....but I'm told it will take a couple of years to have it completely just the "right" way. So no matter how hot it is, no matter what is going on....these two can be found out front....WORKIN' HARD!

School's back in.....

Noah started school on August 31st....this was his 1st day of school picture...isn't he so cute?!? Why do they not cooperate? I'm in big trouble if this is how he acts for his preschool picture! He is going to school 4 days a week, Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri...he has a new teacher, Ms. Melissa, whom he is really enjoying. Scott & I went to "back to school" night on Friday. I think I really like Ms. Melissa also! She is going to be great for Noah.

Why is it that children act better for other people than for their own parents?? He is such a great kid at school {and in church}, he listens to the rules, he FOLLOWS the rules, he helps clean up, etc., etc.. It's funny to me when I'm told that he is such a great kid. Don't get me wrong, he is, but he has his moments {don't they all!}

So besides school, Noah is also going to speech 2 days a week. Monday afternoons he joined a performance group that a lady in my ward started. They are going to have a Christmas production {play/song/dance}..for those of you who know Noah pretty well...the kids his age will be singing & dancing {as good as they can}. I was a little hesitant to sign him up, but he is liking it. We'll see how it goes.

Those are the things that we have been doing lately. Obviously church, playing with friends & the other normal life activities have been occupying our time too.