Week #50 {2015}

Sunday. Those are my people, walking hand and hand through Walmart.

Unc and Auntie D sent the kids some gifts from their trip to Kauai. They sent Rylan a little gecko toy...then he made a gecko out of paper.

Playing with Levi {who lives across the street!}.

Dylan was working on a school project and I was pretty impressed with the parrot he drew!

That night we went to the Thompson's Station Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. It's one of my favorite new traditions! It is definitely a small town event and I LOVE it. Not many people are there, the kid's schools glee clubs perform, a local dance school performs, there's free cookies and hot cocoa. It's awesome. I invited 3 other families to go with us and we all had a great time.

Monday. Gas prices are dropping again. Yippee!

I made my first batch of Almond Rocca...Christmastime can now officially begin!

Tuesday I gave this cutie patootie a hair cut.

And I'm kind of obsessed with this snack lately: Granny Smith Apples and Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese slices. 

So funny story - Chris gave me his Hurley sweatshirt that was a bit too short in the torso. He went to go and grab a new one and walked out in this:

We have matching hoodies from our old church and mine was hung up in his side of the closet! That guy makes me laugh!

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We added some decorations to our Charlie Brown tree out front!

I love Rylan. At bathtime I ask him to get his jammies and when I walk in {almost every time} he has them layed out like this.

Wednesday we had a little more time in the morning and I got to do Payton's hair like this:

I had a cute lunch date at Costco. {By the way, have you had a swirl frozen yogurt there? Y.U.M.}

The girls...walking home from the bus. And this is a Kindergartner, 1st grader and 2nd grader....all the same height!

Thursday. Rylan sends hundreds of these Snapchats. He can verbally spell his name right, but on Snapchat, he ends up scrambling the letters. It makes me smile.

Friday I got to spend a few hours with sweet Hannah girl again. She is such a good baby!

The people that just moved in across the street from us moved here from Irvine, CA, just 15 minutes from where we used to live! She wanted to hose off her driveway {thanks to construction dirt!} and was commenting on/laughing at how she couldn't do that in California. I was laughing at the little ducklings that were following behind her "helping".

Walking home from the bus again. This neighborhood just keeps getting better and better!

Saturday our Elf on the Shelf showed back up.

And the littles and I went for a nature walk in the neighborhood. On a nature walk we bring a bag and pick up trash we see on our path.

Payton was at the neighbors playing and when I went to get her she and Marley  were all dressed up with beautiful makeup on.

Later that day Payton got to go to a rock star birthday party.

Her and the birthday girl, Mia!

Week in Review

See?

Didn't it turn out adorable? (Check the end of my post yesterday if you have no idea what I'm talking about.)

Dylan was SO excited about his well check on Monday. (I'm excited that he is heathy! Thank you Jesus!)

Rylan got so bored waiting for the doctor that he did this:

Does it count as "climbing the walls".

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Ry wanted to go play with the trains at the "lie-berry" and I had some books that were due so off we went! Man was it CROWDED there! This pic was after most people had finally left. (He's in the gray shirt.)

I stopped by to see Payton at lunch and within 4 hours the curls had relaxed a lot.

I thought it looked really pretty.

Little man asked me to "nuggle you?" at his nap time and we both fell asleep. It was a marvelous 10 minute nap for me and he was out for a couple of hours. {lucky duck!}

Holy moley . . . This kid is growing up! He's emailing his teacher a question. How did he get so big?

Rylan's "I'm mad!" pose at football one night.

We went to the park and played.

I love this little boy. He has no fear.

My mom is totally cracking up at these pictures. I used to lay the silverware from the dishwasher all in a row on the floor when I was tiny. I guess Ry is following in my steps.

He had Del Taco sauce packets lined up all over the kitchen counters.

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It was chilly this morning so Ry got to wear a sweatsuit to walk the kids to the bus stop. We stopped to snap a pic and send a "hi daddy" video to Chris at work.

How was your week?

A Peek at Our Week

Ry went to put on his helmet and ride his bike. It made his daddy proud.

There was a crazy thunder/rain/lightning storm that we stopped to watch.

I tried another new hairstyle for P.

Ry loves Little People. It's fun to watch him play with them. And yes, he is still half naked. {sigh}

My first tomatoes, that actually made it to red! And they were SOOOOO tasty.

Payton got her pom poms this week at practice and was SO excited.

I found little man sleeping in D's bed (it's hard to take a pic in the dark!) one night.

Another style.

I have a new helper in the house!

And since the kids were all cleaning, I got to sit down for a bit with Chris to watch some tv. It was so nice! I could get used to that.

Payton did her hair all by herself. We were both pretty impressed.

Ready for his first class as a brown belt. He's looking forward to learning a butterfly kick.

One morning I found Ry sleeping on Payton's floor (Will he ever stay in his own bed?).

I learned a cool trick for Payton's hair . . . And it's super easy!

The kids got an awesome surprise when they got off the bus Thursday.

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I went to Back to School Night for Dylan's class and saw this posted on the wall.

Man, I wish everyone (especially some adults) could be reminded of this!

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Right before nap time, Ry wanted to play blocks in his room {still naked - good thing it's summer!).

I kept checking on him and he played quietly for almost 2 hours!

He skipped his nap, but later fell asleep while we were out.

"Daddy, you play blocks in my woom?" How could he say no? I LOVE these sweet moments.

Bedtime. I love that he plays with his hair when he puts his pacifier in.

He wanted me to take a pic of Mickey.

Another pretty great week for the books!