Random

Since I'm so far behind, here's another random bunch of pictures.

 

Tanner is still obsessed with shoes. He wears them about 90% of the time.

 

He also loves blankets lately.

 

 

One day we were waiting for Jayden after school and Sidney laid upside down and said that this helped her think better. 

I took this picture with my phone, so of course it doesn't do it justice, but I'm loving the sunsets here. Almost every night we get a gorgeous show, and when the clouds are thick, it's breathtaking. The colors were almost to bright and vivid to look at. The clouds looked like they were on fire.

 

Sidney was pushing Tanner around like this for about an hour.

He was trying to drink the animal crackers. This kid makes us laugh every day.

Dance class.

Tanner watching dance class, notice the shoes.



Parade

Sidney's dance studio participated in the Boise Holiday Parade. She was excited to ride on a float, but when we got there and saw it was just a trailer being pulled by a truck, she was a little disappointed. We've come a long way from the bigger cities, and had to laugh when one group was pushing shopping carts. I get it was for the Salvation Army, but it was still funny. For being a decent size city, it's a far cry from other big city parades we've been to. I'm not sure how much she enjoyed sitting on the float, but I think next year we'll just go and watch.

 

 



Snow Days

The kids have been loving have snow. We even had a day off of school because of the snow. We got about 9 inches in 2 days back in November. It melted in a week though, so not really that big of a deal. 

 

They were so excited that they hurried outside before school to play in it on the first day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They were helping to shovel snow and Sidney wanted to listen to the opening song from Frozen as they were breaking ice. 



Halloween

 Sidney has been talking about being Elsa for a year. I looked at every fabric store in town and couldn't find exactly what I wanted, but she was thrilled with her dress.

 

 

She wanted me to be Anna, so I put together an outfit from my closet. We borrowed a moose hat from our friends for Josh to wear for Sven, but he got home on the late side and we never got a picture with him.

 

Jayden and I are reading the Harry Potter series together. He wanted me to make his costume too, so I had a lot of fun with costumes this year.

 

 

Tanner hated his costume. He pulled his hat off and cried. But then it took him two seconds to understand the whole trick or treating thing, and after that he didn't really think about his costume that much. He was way too cute trick or treating, and his costume was a big hit. He would walk into front doors with his bucket out stretched. He would be given candy, and he would keep standing there, and people thought he was cute, so they gave him more. Is it weird I felt bad eating his candy? He worked so hard for it.

 

 

 



Jayden is 9!

And I'm freaking out a little because he's HALF WAY to 18! What in the world? The last 9 years have flown by, and it makes me want to cry thinking about how 9 more will fly by. I'm truly in a panic.

 

He had a Star Wars party. The boys had a great time, Jayden was a happy boy, goal achieved.

 

He wanted a wookie cookie cake. 

Played a few games.