Victory is Mine!!!

I have finished with a little more than a week before December first, so to the nay sayers..."Victory is MINE!!!"

So a while back I started with this now I have finally accomplished it, my own version of course, yay!!!

We have a 4 year old!!!

For Kevin's 4th birthday we had a train party playdate. We invited some of his best little guy friends and played with trains and ate cupcakes. All the boys had a blast being boys and I got to see what it would be like with a house "FULL" of boys, super fun btw.

we set up several different types of train tracks and just let them go!!

this is geotown!!

some of Kevin's buddies follow...

Oliver

Joaquine

Kien

and our own silly Birthday boy, Kevin

Tyler was there too but it was hard to get him away from the trains he only stayed for a second even a cupcake couldn't keep him away.

The big train in the room!!

Thomas is always a fav!!

Hard at play

Trying to convince Kevin there were 4 candles and not 3 proved to be harder than we thought luckily all his friends were on our side.

Weekend update!!

So this weekend Kevin was part of his first Primary program it was so cute and he was so proud. On Saturday he had a final practice followed by a Pizza party, you know he loved that!!

(Kien, Kevin and Josie at their pizza party)

Then on Sunday we got all dressed up and went to church and got to enjoy all the little ones, (you know I teared up when Kevin spoke into the microphone on the pulpit about how his family remembers Jesus Christ, so sweet)

Finally we have been doing a little packing, amazing, I know it looks like a few boxes but really it has not made a dent in our house so hhmmm...

There are more boxes in that cabinet it is also filled to the top!!

We have greenery!!!

Well it is coming along, check these pics out of our home to be...

This is the back obviously and our fabulous two car garage and cute cobblestone driveway

since I was there last week they planted bushes and trees and wow they can do that fast!!

This is actually our unit, the top window is the boys' room

Halloween!!!

This year for Halloween we went to our trunk or treat the night before at church (for those of you who don't know what that is we go trick or treating from car to car in the parking lot and everyone decorates their trunks really fun and spooky!) Then we went trick or treating on Halloween night in Toluca Lake with some good friends. The kids had a blast hanging out with friends and collecting their goods!!

What a gang!!

The boys' friends Tyler and Oliver

Adam's first house!! (and the scary moving bowl)

Best buddies!! (Kien and Kevin)

Adam so enjoyed helping handing out candy at the Cooke's house after we were done trick or treating, when we were leaving more people were coming up the drive and he kept yelling, "stop, more customers".....LOL That is what him and Kien had been calling the trick or treaters.

eyeball cupcakes made Kevin's night!!

Yeah, they are pretty cute!!

When Grandma comes to visit!!!

It really was so fun to have my mom out for over a week. She had not been out since Adam was born and it was fun to show her some of my favorite "haunts" (cuz it's Halloween time) we were able to do lots of fun things like see our new house in the making, go downtown to the fashion district, eat too much frozen yogurt at Costco, ride the subway to Union Station, visit the pumpkin patch, do lots of crafts and even start packing boxes for you know what. I wish my parents lived closer so we could do more stuff together maybe in more time, lol. When she left I was beat but I knew I could catch up a little after she left but the hours with mom were limited. so here are a couple fun pics of our doings.

apparently no feeding the goats didn't apply to my mom and her grand kids :)

can you guess what this pic is?

we love Grandma!!!

Look what I have created!!!!!

Well my mom has been in town this week and gotten me very motivated to get projects done or at least moving. Here are a couple things we have done!

First we worked on the Advent calendar and have cut out numbers and sewn them on (huge amount of time)

Then I tried a recipe off of Beth's blog which turned out absolutely fabulous and I cannot wait to make it again.

Then Last night we just threw this wreath together, My mom is really good at this kind of stuff, I absolutely love it.