I finally gave in.

The kids have wanted a dog for so long. The thought of dogs in the house didn't appease me. We talked with several people and decided on these poodles. They shed very little and they are small.
So, we finally welcomed not just one but two new dogs to our family. They are puppies. What was I thinking! So we get to potty train 2 dogs. I have to be honest it hasn't been that bad yet.

This is Fudge

This is Buddy,.

aquarium

We had some friends in town, so we took a few hours off of school and work and headed to the aquarium. It was fun hanging out with them.
Always fun to see the diffrent fish.

my cleaning munchkin

Kyle loves to vacuum. Every time I get the vacuum out, it is a fight who gets it going first. I usually have him get his vacuum and do it along side me. But like everything else the real thing is better. I was busy cleaning the kitchen and the vacuum was out and he was able to vacuum the whole front room, even the dirt he pulled out of the plant. He even moved the chairs. It was awesome. I didn't even have to ask him to do it. I hope I can keep this love for vacuuming going in him. I wish I didn't have so many stairs then he could just keep going through out the whole house.

What equals trouble?

So Katie likes to go around saying that she knows additions. In the car and at home she is always telling you what something equals or asking what a equation equals. This morning she was telling Ryan she knows what 5+5 is and Ryan wouldn't let her answer he would hurry and say the answer before she could. She did this a couple of times.
Than she said, "I know what Ryan + Ryan equals".
Ryan who was answering all the others didn't really pay attention to what name she said and blurts out "TROUBLE". Than he realized she used his name and not hers.
It was the ultimate GOTCHA.

Halloween

This was a fun year for Halloween. Ryan got to be what he wanted. Katies costume fit her personality. Natalie had a love for Minnie and Kyle got leftovers. The neighbors did a mini haunted house this year. We saw them setting stuff up. It was amazing to see what they were able to do. They transformed their garage with everything goolish. They didn't scare us because of the little kids. Ryan went to go in again by himself and they scared him good. So bad that he had tears. After we got home it was fun to sit on the porch and listen to the older kids go through it and scream.
My little pumpkin.
My Minnie Mouse
My sweet Strawberry Shortcake

A woopie cushion

got to love the weather in colorado

We started out with good weather and playing in the leaves. Katie went and raked the neighbors leaves and played in them. Then it snowed and snowed. Oh, how fun it is playing in the snow. Not so much shoveling it. We had Kyle out in the snow last year, but this year he got to to go walking in it. He had a hard time when he would fall down he couldn't get up. I pulled him on the sled up and down the street and enjoyed that. The other kids enjoy eating the snow more than anything. Gross.

zoo

Katie had her preschool Halloween party at the zoo. It started out cold and then warmed up a little.