It's October!

Sorry everyone, I have been slacking on the blogging! I am half way through the quarter with school! I am so excited to almost be done!! Just 5 more weeks. They will be hard weeks, but just 5 more. Halloween is drawing near. Makyla chose to be a witch, Mason chose to be Spiderman, and Merayya wanted to be a butterfly (well actually, mom wanted her to be!). Pictures to be coming soon!

Mason finally started school earlier this month. He has started saying a few more words, one of them being "bus." Every day he is so excited when the bus picks him up he runs out to it.

More to come later....Merayya needs me!

Reindeer

You are probably wondering....reindeer, now?!? Well, this is a cute story from my school. We were walking outside at the school to go somewhere and a little girl from our class said to me "reindeer!" I looked over to the trees to see if maybe there were some deer in the field or something. I couldn't see anything, so I told her "no, there are no reindeer." That is when I noticed that it was nice and clear and what she was calling reindeer, was actually Mt. Rainier. Now every time I see the mountain I think of her. Mark and I got the privilege to go on a hike last Thursday before the cold weather set in. We went up and it was beautiful. I was a little scared that we wouldn't make it back to our car before dark, so I was booking it down the trail. I was right...we ended up walking the last half in the dark. I was pretty scared, but I kept watching Mark's white socks in the dark. I was glad to get back to our car and even happier to get back to see our kids.

Army crawler

I haven't updated about Merayya in a while. She has never learned to crawl the right way (if there is a right way!). She army crawls. Her tummy never leaves the floor when she is crawling around. Her clothes are getting quite the use in the tummy area! She has managed to crawl into a lot of things lately. She crawled into a basket of toys yesterday, and she crawled up the stairs yesterday. There is really only two stairs, but yes, she made it to the top and was crawling around in the kitchen! It was pretty exciting.

Mason's Birthday party

Mason blowing out the candles!Three full layers of lemon cake with custard filling. Sneaking opening gifts

Allowed to open gifts, finally!
The cake in all it's glory He was singing with everyone!

Here are pictures from Mason's Birthday party. He had such a blast. I was so caught up in the party, that I didn't take as many pictures as I usually do.

My 2nd cake

On Mason's actual birthday we went over to our friend's house for pizza and to watch Monday night football. I figured since it was his actual birthday and I needed some practice that I would take a cake to their house to celebrate. It didn't taste as good as I would have liked, but overall it looked great!

Happy 3rd Birthday Mason!!!

Yesterday was Mason's third birthday. I just can't believe how fast time flies! We are celebrating this next Saturday with a party. More pictures will be coming, but until then, I have some of the first pictures that we took when we got our digital camera.

Dear "my little old man,"

I can't believe how much you have grown. God has blessed us more then we could ever imagine with such a beautiful little boy. Everyday we laugh at how cute, daring, and funny you are. I can't wait until you can say more words and communicate with us. Then, maybe you will stop calling Makyla, grandma, auntie, and me all mommy!

Love you,

Mommy

My cutie pies!

Here are some cute pictures of the kids. I love them so much! Look how much they have grown!