pumpkins

Last night we had our traditional FHE before halloween... we had the jack-o-lantern pizza from Papa Murphy's - YUM! And we carved a pumpkin after the lesson. This year it was fun having Shannon with us since it was her birthday! We had a yummy dessert pizza for her cake - the blurry pic below...

And the last pic was on Saturday when the girls painted pumpkins before the carnival at Maelie's school. Such a fun time of year!

Thanksgiving EH?!

Monday was Canadian thanksgiving and we had a yummy feast! Kyla has really been into dressups lately, I just had to take her pic!

Maelie and Kyla doing an art project - Kyla kept painting hers over and over and over, she didn't want to stop and then at the end she asked me what color hers was and in my head I was thinking nasty brownish-purplish but instead told her how colorful it looked! :) It's been fun having Maelie home for fall break, but I think she is excited to go back on Wednesday! She went to a birthday party on Saturday and was so happy to see so many of her friends from school.

soccer camp

Maelie has a couple weeks off from school for fall break so I signed the girls up for a community soccer camp. It was every day this week, it's been fun and the weather has been great! There is a really fun park right by the soccer field so Jaxon has been entertained while the girls are playing soccer. The girls have also enjoyed playing at the park before and after soccer. I never take them to the park during the summer, it's just way too hot. So it's been so nice to be outside this week and actually enjoy it!notice Kyla's idea of playing soccer. She would only play with this one ball and always did her own thing, that's our Kyla :) sorry for the bad zoom

Maelie loved it, Kyla... not so much

CAR WASH

We had a wet time washing the car yesterday afternoon! And yes, even I was soaked!!

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it must be a boy thing

We have had this little IKEA tent for a while since Kyla was about 15 months old. The girls loved playing in the tent and the tent always remained upright, they never had problems with it tipping over. I remember one time when we were babysitting for friends and Maelie's friend Ty was over and the tent was out. Well, he was all over it, tipping it over, climbing all over it, in and out and upside down. I remember Jonas and I noticing how different boys were since that was before we had a boy. Even after Ty's example, the girls still never tipped it over.

Well, the tent has been put away for a while until this afternoon when I got it out... and what do you know?

it must be a boy thing!

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Jaxon at 18 months

Jaxon is 18 months old now! Here are the stats from his check up

27 lbs (60 %) and 33 in (50 %)

down slightly from his 12 month when he was 65% and 89%

Jaxon loves milk, yogurt, grapes, strawberries, popcorn, pretzels, and popsicles! He is starting to love cars and trucks. He loves everything he is not allowed to have like the phone, scissors, and permanent markers! He continues to keep me busy and he never fails to make me laugh. He adores his sisters and daddy, and mommy too of course. He has been in nursery for about a month now and although he doesn't talk to tell us all about it, we think he likes it since he has always gone in without any troubles. We are working on his vocab, hoping that he will do a little more talking and a little less screeching!! :) We love our Jaxon!

Happy Labor Day

greek food and a pedal boat

We did something a little different for date night, it was a fun change. We went to Tempe Town Lakes and rented a pedal boat, those are quite the workout! And I also discovered I have a fear of going under bridges at night in mysterious waters. :) Despite the 105* night, it was still nice... it was cool to see the light rail bridge light up everytime the train went past.

We tried out greek food at My big FAT Greek restaurant by ASU. It was different, and different is good occasionally. We also tried baklava, like on Aladdin in the song Friend Like Me. :) yummy, but there are plenty of other desserts we prefer over it!

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