Pumpkin Carving 2012

I love carving pumpkins! I love the smell of carving them the best. It brings back memories of carving as a kid. We decided to go to the "Walmart pumpkin patch" this year.
As always the girls were so excited to do their pumpkins this year. We had a lot of fun and Mindy and Makayla loved staying up past their bed time :)

Boise State at Southern Mississippi

It took us a total of 14 hours to get to the game. It was in the 80s and all of us got a sunburn! Poor Mia had a long sleeve shirt on when we got there and by the time the game was over she was a little immodest ;)
The girls laid down under our legs during most if the game playing on Monte's iPhone and Granny's iPod. It was kind of a boring game and a riot with the kids but we had a good time!

The Beach

After the game we headed south to Gulfport Mississippi. The sand was very fine and light yellow and the water was actually warm. It was 90 degrees when we got there. There was a lot of stuff that was washed up to shore. They said it was from hurricane Katrina. There were like shirts and junk. It was kind of weird. Mindy found a milk crate and carried it all along the beach picking up every single shell she found! Makayla loved running and sliding hands first into the sand. Mia loved being in the water. She would pick up sea shells and throw them in the water (she loves to throw rocks into water at home). She was funny because she didn't care that she was getting her dressed soaked. She was having fun! We took a family picture and it looks like we have a bunch of orphans kids! They look so ragged but we all had such a blast! By the time we were ready to leave Mindy had quite a collection of shells. We somehow got her to narrow it down to 7 of her favorite ones. She also got a water bottle full of sand. All the girls were covered in sand...my car is going to have to be vacuumed more than once to get all the sand out! Mia had to ride back to the hotel in just her diaper. I'm so glad we decided to go to the coast. It was Makayla and Mia's first time. Mindy was only 5 months old when we went to the beach in Florida so it felt like the first time for her too. We had a great time and are exhausted after a long day!!

Ready to go!

All ready for the long drive to Mississippi for the Boise State game!

Student of the Month

Mindy was student of the month on Monday. She didn't know anything about it. I called my mom and she left her house at 5:45 am just to make it in time. They had a little assembly at school and announced her name. She looked so cute up there. She is a good student and is making lots friends. She had a bit of a hard time adjusting to being away from home and family at first but is doing good now. We are so proud of our little kindergarten girl :)

No front teeth!

Monte pulled Mindy's tooth out this morning so now she doesn't have her two front teeth. She said its hard to talk :) I think she looks adorable!

Sunday Walk

I love going on walks on Sunday. Mia said "a walk" right after we started going and would not stay in her stroller. Our little Sunday walked turned into a long Sunday walk because we had to walk Mia's pace...very slow! It was fun though. The girls picked some sunflowers and we went to our usual walking spot: the train. The girls love to clim around on the train and find all sorts of metal treasures. Monte put Mia on his shoulders for a couple of minutes and when he put her down she cried and cried because her legs fell asleep. I am so grateful for our little girl family.

Saturday Fun

We had some great weather on Saturday so we went and checked out a local park. It was at a lake but the toys were a little to big and there were no slides. We had lunch, Monte fished for 5 minutes, and the girls threw rocks in the lake. We decided to go to another park. It's got lots of great toys there. After we were done playing we went to Braums for some ice cream. Yum!

Mindy's First Day of School

I've been wanting to post something about Mindy's first day of school. She was excited and scared. She woke up in the middle of the night because she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to stop sucking her thumb at school. She looks so grown up in this picture.

 

We all loaded up in the car to take Mindy to school :) When we got there I took her inside to her class. She gave me a hug and said "Goodbye Mommy, I love you" then turned and walked off to start the day. I didn't want to leave my baby!! I turned and struggled to fight back the tears until I got to the car. I cried all the way home!

Her first day she got off the bus with the biggest grin on her face. Makayla and I made cookies for her and the girls were so happy to see eachother. It was cute to see them give lots of hugs to one another.

 

Makayla had a wonderful day at home. She played so happy with her "mini stuff" ALL DAY. She doesn't miss Mindy--she loves being her own boss!!!

Monte takes Mindy to school every morning and she rides the bus home from school everyday. She is always making new friends and for the most part likes school. She says her favorite thing about school is P.E. and Recess (what kid doesn't say that!!) It has been such a big change in our lives to have Mindy in school.

Boise State vs Michigan State game

So i finally figured out how to blog on Monte's phone. Its kind of hard and it takes me FOREVER to type!! The pictures are out of order too but I have no clue how to fix them. ...so bare with me :)

Monte and I went to the Boise state game in Michigan. We got mindy out of school early on thursday and headed down to oklahoma. My family watched the girls for us for the weekend   

we flew out of okc on Thursday afternoon and arrived in Detroit that evening. The next morning- Monte's birthday - we headed to Lansing. We went to lunch and then hung out at our hotel until dinner time. We of course went to red robin for dinner. Monte wouldn't let me tell them it was his birthday though. After dinner we still had some time to kill so we just started driving towards the stadium. When we got close there were a ton of people walking toward the stadium so we decited to find a parking spot and get over to the game. We got our tickets through stubhub and so we sat in the middle of the Michigan state fans, next to the student section, and up at the top. When we were walking up to find our seats the students were coming in and they were soooo rude! They kept swearing and flipping us off right in our faces. One group of kids surrounded us and were swearing and stuff and one of the kids pushed Monte's shoulder. I was really worried about being in the middle of the Michigan section. The "non-students really were not bad at all though. It was fun to go to the game together but I would rather go in a group. I think It's fun to cheer with a bunch of people. 

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 Saturday we went back to detroit and went to the ford museum  it was huge and pretty neat  i love to go slow and read everything and monte is opposite-browse and be done...so I did some speed reading while trying to keep up with him! On Saturday night we went to dinner with the "Christensen bros" to the Sweetwater Tavern in downtown Detroit. It was so good. This is the plate monte and I shared. Behind me is Bryan. We had a good time with them.

Monte and I hanging out before the game. We hada great time together. It was fun to just hang out and be together with no kids :)