Bloggin' on my mind...

Hmmmm so it's been a 7 month blog break that apparently I thought I needed to take...but really in all reality it's been on my mind the WHOLE time, like a nagging little gnat! I truly enjoy reading, doing and learning from blogs but once I fell behind for a couple months I didn't know how to jump back in ( yes I know it literally is as simple as writing a post!) but for whatever reason that just seemed like so much work and time. I got lazy with just putting pics on facebook instead of keeping this updated so for the sake of keeping events straight in my head I'm diving back in!

January/February...

Preston joined his first team...The Mini Vikes!

He did great the whole little season of Soccer!

Celebrating Preston's last game with some ice cream!

Preston had a Valentine party at school...

We went with friends to Givens Hot Springs...

We got a new pet, Shorty (R.I.P. Shorty 2/11-7/11).....and Lexi made it on her schools "Pillars of Trust". She found a wallet on the playground that was obviously very important to some adult and turned it in...landing her self portrait on the "trustworthiness" pillar!

Christmas time...

This years Christmas was pretty insane since we decided to go ahead and move into our new house 2 days before Christmas....

Our tree started in the old house.....

Lexi's Christmas program!

classroom treats with Disney sprinkles!

Kloe playing at Prestons class party!

Christmas eve @ the Farrells!

So glad dad was home!

My sick boy on Christmas eve.

and also a sick baby on Christmas eve.

heading to bed so Santa can come!

and that he did... DSI, Penbo, Cars, Games, Weebles....

She loved her baby!

relaxing after the craziness!!

Feeling all better!!!

Now on to more unpacking....

For Thanksgiving 2010 we went to DISNEYLAND!!!

Best choice we ever made (it was a big deal for me to give up Black Friday, lol)

Preston's highlight of the trip was Buzz Lightyear...

Kloe wasn't so excited for riding all the rides, but since we're mean like that we took her on most!

Meeting his hero and go figure he was scared!

I'm pretty sure she only liked the Nemo ride!

The infamous weights pic!

princess face painting was a must!

one on one time with their too favorite characters, priceless!!

Pluto!

We couldn't have come at a more beautiful time of year, Disneyland decorated for Christmas is amazing!!

Getting ready to enjoy our front row seats to the Christmas parade!!

We had the best time ever and I'm already counting down the time to go back!!

Halloween 2010

Halloween was super fun this year, the kids thought long and hard about what they wanted to be..... There were definitely quite a few trips to the big Halloween Stores, a few worried moments from Lexi wondering if her vision of a "dead bride" was really coming together, a trip to Boo at the Zoo with friends, watched lots of Halloween Town, CANDY, candy and CaNdY and lots of spooky memories!!

Preston "Spiderman"

Our sweet little Kloe

our "dead bride" lexi

Avatar, Lilly

Fall 2010 Field Trips!

I have been lucky enough to tag along on a few field trips this last week! Lilly's whole Kindergarten class got to go to Linder Farms ( click on that link and check out their corn maze, just another crazed Bronco fan for sure!!) which has been our favorite Pumpkin Patch thus far in Idaho!

Of course it decided to be windy that day...

The hay ride out to the patch...

Lilly and her 2 best buds (her words!)

getting ready to go through the corn maze!

and her perfect little pumpkin, the rules were they could only pick one that they could carry all the way back to the bus!

It was a fun day spending some time with Lilly!

Now on to Prestons trip...

Preston and the rest of his pre-school class got to take a little field trip to this mans ranch, SYMMS Fruit Ranch. We drove up to the plant where he boarded the bus and pointed the way to one little amazing spot where the kids could pick Apples to their hearts content! I could have watched the whole experience for hours, you could just see the utter joy in his eyes watching all these "youngsters" enjoying his Ranch and loving every question they had for him!

Picking away...

My favorite picture of the day!

Perfect!

Ohhh how I love this time of year!!