Sunday...BRRR it's cold out!

This morning we had Ryan's preschool church program. He was a mouse. He was not thrilled apparently about that...














Later with Candy cane in his mouth, things were a different story.

Also here is Meghan before her choir concert.




This afternoon we are taking the girls and their friends Lauren and Jaye to go see Miracle on 34th Street at the community theatre. The boys are going with Lhonda and Bob to Noelle's church program. Maybe she will sing better than Ryan.

We were planning on getting them all dressed up to go see Santa tonight and then drive around and see the lights, but with the windchill being as low as it is I think we will stay in and go on Christmas Eve in the morning. BRRRRR!

And Katie has finished the 2nd Harry Potter book and is on book 3! Yeah Katie!

Spongebob Birthday!

Ryan had his Spongebob Birthday party this afternoon and WOW, he sure is a ladies man!

When we started talking about his party we asked who he had wanted to invite. Noelle of course because she is his friend from across the street. he also wanted to invite his friends from pre-school. We said Ok, who? "well Sarah and Alex." OK, Is Alex a boy? "NO" ok, so we did. Then he said "who is that girl from Dawg's house?" We told him that was Sydney and her brother Ryan too. We invited them all. DO you see a pattern to all of this? Yes, Ryan is a ladies man!

So today Noelle shows up, then Sarah, then Alex. He takes them all upstairs to show them his room. Places his hand on Sarah's back as he leads them all upstairs. Then, Chris saw this and told me to go check it out. Ryan had put on his bathrobe and was walking around upstairs with all his girlfriends. So we have a little Hepf on our hands. Oh my! He did take the bathrobe off though.

They played hide and go seek, put the jellyfish in the net - like pin the tail on the donkey, freeze dance and drop the clothespin in the jar. They also colored Spongebob pictures. What a blast. He loved all his presents and gave all his girlfriends a hug!

What an amazing little man we have!

Ryan and all his girlfriends -his sisters too of course.

Alex, Sarah, Ryan & Noelle

Playing hide and go seek

Ryan taking his robe off!

Pin the jellyfish in the net

Ryan getting his groove on!

Yes he ended up with 3 girlfriends

Hugging Sarah

Katie dancing with all the kids.

Sneak Peek...

Here is a sneak peek at what the kids will be for Halloween! They had a Halloween party they attended on Sunday. Ryan will be a frog when he goes trick or treating though.

Ryan is a convict

Meghan is Hermione from Harry Potter

Katie is a pop star diva

And it's off to Houston he goes...

I guess I should have expected a business trip to pop up soon. They always do, especially this time of year because it is our busiest for the family.

So Chris calls this morning and tells me he has to go to Houston on Sunday till Weds. Well oh joy! So here are the things I had to cover.

1. Family pictures. They were rescheduled from last weekend because of the rain for Sunday at 4. The last flight out of Fargo to Minneapolis and onto Houston is at 4:30. SO I call Noelle, she has nothing till the 26th. Well then there is the issue of the weather and how many times are we going to reschedule. She is booked Thurs and Fri next week. I call Chris, he says pull the kids out of school either tomorrow or Fri and get them done. Noelle is booked those days till 3. I work at 5. Since it is 1 1/2 hrs to Crookston not feasible. So we are now pulling them out of school on Thurs for the day, pictures in Crookston at 11 and Chris rescheduled his 1:30 mtg. UGH!

2. Find babysitter for Tues Night and Weds Night - our college age babysitter has band till 6. I work at 5. HMMMM!

3. Ask our kind neighbors to take Meghan and Lauren to choir on Tues morning instead of Chris driving. and beg them to cover from 5-6 on Weds or until our babysitter arrives. Of course at this point we don't know if she can babysit. lol

4. Reschedule my nails from Monday night to Sat morning.

But lucky for us there is no church for the girls on Weds night, so I don't have to worry about getting them to church and just have to adjust to a little more driving around for the kids.

On the plus side - costumes are going well. Katie's is done, Meghan's is done, I just have to put the fringe on her scarf, Chris's is done - needs buttons I guess, Ryan's costume for preschool is done, his trick or treating one is almost done. SO that leaves mine and Aaron's. Yeah! Go Jen!

The DI meeting went well and I will be picking up the registration forms on Friday and hopefully getting the teams formed over the weekend. I am going to Michael's today for parchment paper to create Meghan's birthday party invites for her Harry Potter party on Nov 1st. I may make it till then. HAHA!

Cheers!