Math & Cookies

Kindra is in 3rd Grade this year and is doing really good. Yesterday was the awards assemble for the first trimester. Kindra was chosen from her class the get the Math Award. I am so proud of her and all the work she has been doing in school.

When she got home home from school she wanted to make up her own recipe for candy cane cookies. I encouraged her to experiment with a recipe that she all ready likes. She took her favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe and made cookies all by herself. They turned out really good. I am so proud of her! My own little chef.

American Girl Trip

About 4 months ago some of the girls from Church decided it would be fun to go to the American Girl Store in LA together. Kindra got all excited about the trip, but I wanted to make sure that this was something Kindra wanted and was willing to work towards. We told Kindra that if she wanted something from the store that she would have to purchase it with her own money. So the money saving began. She helped out extra around the house, did a yard and bake sale with some friends and read some American girl books. In the end with the help of Grandparents she ended up with $89.98. So off we went to LA. The group had 10 girls 7 mothers and Walter.

We all know Kindra love of Dolls NOT!!! She found a horse in a doll store that she had to have. She was just as excited about the horse as her friends were about their dolls. The horse is the colt Patriot from the American Girl story Felicity.


Audrey walk around the store with the biggest eyes all morning. She came up to me and asked if I would get her a doll. I thought about it for a minute and said not until you are 8. I can't imagine spend 90.00 on a doll for a 4 year old. She said she had some money, she opened her hand and handed me $6.34. That's a lot of money for a 4 year old. Being the soft mother that I am I found a mini doll of the one she wanted. That made her happy.

It was a fun time. Thanks to Whitney for putting it all together.

Slow Down

Most days in my life I want to put in slow motion. Walt is one of the big reasons why. He is so cute, but growing so fast. It is so much fun having a little boy in our house.

Walt is crawling everywhere, and is really fast at it. It seams like I am always asking Audrey "Where did Walt go?" He love the girls room SCARRY!! way to many little things.


Walt went on his first backpack trip to Deep Creek on Veterans Day. He was such a good sport. Sleep on the way there and back. Just like his sisters.

Walter new accomplishment is that he has learned to pull himself up to stuff. He is so proud of himself when he does it.

Thanks to Uncle Steve Walt love to stand on Dad hands. At first it scared me, but now it just makes me smile.

My little boy the the laundry. Folded or unfolded it does not matter, he will take it ot of the basket.

I love being a mom of such a cute little boy!

Halloween Week

We went out to check out the camp sites for next weekend in the National Park. No matter what we say the girls just can't keep from climbing the rocks. If Kindra can go up Audrey thinks she can to. Coming down is a different story.

Walt has been eating baby food for awhile the other night I gave him a baby carrot. He loved it, I think it felt good on his teeth.

Carmel Apples

This year I taught the girls how to make carmel apples. Kindra really got into it. She even deocrated her apples with nuts and sprinkles.

Audrey discovered that carmel is hot when melted and stayed away until she could put her own sprinkles on.

Pumpkin Carving

Audrey got her dad to help clean the guts out of the pumpkin. She did not like the feel of the insides.

Kindra on the other hand loved every single part of it. Ithink that there was pumpkin inside all over the dining room. She did the carving all by herself.

What a cute smile!

The girls their Dad and the pumpkins finished. The all looked so cute.



Our Little Dog Walter, looked so cute crawling accross the floor on Halloween.

Team Avatar
The girls decided that this year the family was going to be team Avatar. For those of you who don't know about Avatar it is a show on Nickalodion. The whole family loves to watch.

Dad = Socka

Mom = Katara

Walter = Momo

Kindra = Ang

Audrey = Toph

The only problem is that I could only find a costom to purchase that was Ang. Big Problem!

I was asked to make everyone else costome. I told the girls I would start with Toph and see how it went. I finished Audrey costome at 1:00 on Halloween afternoon.

Don't they look cool!

Last Sunday

October 25th, 2008

After church last Sunday Kindra and Audrey came running out of their room asking to call their cousins. We live so far away from family that keeping that relationship is hard when you only see someone once or twice a year. I gave Kindra my cell phone and called her cousin Melissa. Then I handed Audrey the land line and called Caleb. Caleb was not at home so we called Grandma Nelson.

After I gave Kindra the phone I did not hear her I think Kindra and Melissa talked for over one hour. When Kindra got off the phone she said that they was so much fun and asked if she could call Missy again soon.

Audrey was pretty upset that she could not talk to Caleb or Curtis. She decided that talking to Grandma was pretty good. She spent the whole time on the phone dancing around the living room.

Walt enjoy his Sunday. He is trying to cut his front teeth, we are calling him the happy drool monster. He is crawling everywhere and is getting so fast at it.