Party time at the rink.

Some of us mom's had a brilliant idea this year to have a combined birthday party. Four boys in Sam's class have Fall birthday's so we planned a party at the rink. I was in charge of the invitations. Thankfully Andrew was able to help me out by drawing this picture of a hockey rink.

Here's the fun four. Blake Bareman, Sam, Liam deBoer and Timothy Poppe

Liam's mom designed this cool backdrop for the cupcake balloons.

Big hit!!!

 

Ethan Vander Heide joined the festivities at the rink. See his little fan club.

Luke and Seth and friends spending more time on their bottom's than feet.

What a cutey!

Ken came to the party a bit later with Emma and Isaac. This was my first glimpse of Isaac in the umbrella stroller. Not a good idea...I thought the stroller would break into a million pieces.

Giant Isaac! FYI Sam's birthday isn't until November 4. Stay tuned for more birthday fun!

and just like that...SNOW!

This was taken a few days before the rest of the pictures. Isn't it great that they still all fit in there?

 Pretty happy.

 Giant Isaac and little bunny Emma.

 Andrew soon discovered this doesn't work very well.

Typical Sam ready to nail mommy with a snowball!



Lil' Pumpkin Take 2

Hey Lil'Pumpkin Take 1

The Box

We stopped by the school on Friday and Aunty Ang gave us this huge box. Well pinterest delivered ideas yet again...

Luke wanted to play photographer for a bit. I always have to laugh at what the kids end up taking pictures of. It's neat to see the world thru their eyes and letting them use the camera allows that to happen.

I love this picture of Luke's bunny and him wearing his runners!

Tada our airplane which pretty much crashed within a half hour of being built!

Our Family 2012

Posers!

 Mama and her baby boy!

 What a monkey!

 Airplane!

 Heavy Load.

 5 tv watchers!

 Good morning everyone!

 Sunshine!

Not a thumb sucker or a soother boy but definitely a index finger sucker and blankey boy! Pretty gifted he can smile too!



Crafting Zone

 Hard at work while Emma and Isaac nap.

 In case you can't tell it's a owl sitting on a branch with leaves and a yellow moon in the background.

 After I let go of my controlling, micro managing approach I let the kids pick the colors they wanted as well as leaf shapes.

 It's neat to see their different ideas and I need to embrace that more when crafting with them.

 This craft was a bit more challenging but Luke kept up no problem. These are trees with Fall leaves on them and in front of the blue is a clear sandwich bag with more cut out leaves in it. When they shake it, leaves fall from the tree to the ground.

Next up is our Fall tree on the window. The leaves were cut out of coffee filters and colored, then they sprayed the leaves with a spray bottle so the color would run. Ta Da.

This is my door wreath I designed, which is currently getting soaked in the rain. It's all fabric scraps that I had, and the wreath I had from Christmas a few years back. I purchased it at the thrift store. All I had to do was buy the letter L and paint it. 

I am not so creative that I came up with all this stuff on my own. Thanks and credit goes to Pinterest for great ideas that you can revamp and make your own with what you have in your house.

I think we spent about 6 hours in total crafting while Ken was at the teachers convention for 3 days.