Veterans's Day!

Wednesday Lexi's school had a Veteran's Day Assembly! I've been hearing patriotic songs out of her mouth for weeks as they practiced, so it was fun to get to watch the finished product! The whole school did amazing and it was a little emotional seeing how proud they all were and witnessing the whole school do the pledge, I'm so grateful they haven't taken that away from my kids!!

(she just told me she was trying to find me, so she was distracted,lol)

They had such an awesome turn out the gym was packed!

Grades K-5 and the High School Choir even came to sing!

I'm so glad I got to come and watch you Lexi (and Riley!) Great job!

Such cute faces!

Klo-bear if you only knew right now how much we all adore you...

Your smile melts each and every one of us...

We sit and gawk at you for hours, then burst with excitement, like kids in candy shops when you finally let out one of these smiles!

Your tiny little self brings such happiness to our little family.

we all wish you could stay this small forever...

you make our home so cozy!

there's nothing like having a sweet baby sleeping all warm and cozy in her swing!

even your ten tiny, cute little toes make us smile.

Halloween 2009!

Halloween, Halloween, Halloween...

Since this year it fell on a Saturday it meant no laying around being lazy all day(for me!), then spending hours getting all the kids make-up, hair and costumes all ready for the BIG night, because this year we were Super smart and had Lilly's Birthday party that same day! I started my lovely Saturday morning at 6am, decorated til 11:30, got kids and self ready, partied from 12:30 til 4:30ish, then rushed home to throw costumes on to get to the D.A.R.E Halloween thing by 5:45! I seriously can't believe how well everyone did considering it had been a LONG exciting non stop day! I'm so glad Chris was home this year, 2 extra hands were definitely appreciated! He's great a making sure everyone has what they need to have, go where we need to go, get where we need to get, have what we need to have (yes I'm being repetitive cause that's what it's like on a crazy day with 4 kids!)... he does great under pressure! Anyway all in all a super fun day/night and the kids made out with quite the candy stash!

Our scary witch Lexi, we LoVeD her costume this year, so happy she "stepped out of her box" and was something besides a princess!

and our beautiful little flower, Kloe

Our Witch, Flower, Batman and Snow White!

Our darling Snow White!

this was the last house we hit, when the kids willing said we're DONE!! Woohoo, that has never happened before!

Sweet little Kloe just stayed nice and warm all snuggled in her seat!

Here's to already discussing costumes for 2010, seriously children?!?

Our Lilly pie is 5!!

Lilly celebrated her 5th birthday this year by having a carnival party!! Everything turned out fantastic, all the kids "ran" for hours!

it was everything I had envisioned!

Fun, colorful, candy and games!

totally speechless!

girl talk!

we had a ring toss, ping pong gold fish game, bean bag toss, knock the cans, darts, pin the tail on the donkey and because we were all having too much fun we forgot to play the sack race and throwing pies trying to hit the face game!

also face painting!

Balloon balls, so fun!!

my Birthday girl!

good friends and food!

this is Lilly's plate of "food" she made for herself!

some of the kiddos!

he had a complete blast!

We even had darts!

Lexi at the ring toss!

Games!

jumping fun!

Yay! Cotton Candy!!!

enjoying some sugar and the tramp!

Sooo many presents!

Kloe woke up just in time for some cotton candy :)

makin her Birthday wish!

WoW what a party!! Total bast but glad it's over, it consumed my every thought for the last month!

Baking and classroom party!

This was my outcome for baking all day Wednesday! I'm Lexi's classes "class mom" so I was in charge of throwing the kiddos a Halloween party! They were all so sweet and so appreciative of all the goodies and games!

My Lexi!

The Goodie table, how fun!

I also spent 3 hours that morning with Prestons class for his party, but just realised I haven't downloaded his pics yet!

Pumpkin carving 2009.

The Farrells had their annual pumpkin carving party! It's always a fun night of laughing and seeing what everyone comes up with!

Lexi wore a glove,lol

Lilly was all over cleaning her own pumpkin!

Everyone discussing their pumpkin "plans"!

Preston was very intrigued by Chris' carving skills!

working on Edward and Bella, he has quite the tricky hair ;)

We ended up with a bit of everything!

Mummy,Transformers ?, Edward, Bats, Jack, Edward and Bella, Batman, Obama and just a scary face!

Kloes first carving party!

Her tiny own pumpkin that Lexi colored for her!