We are excited to announce.......

Baby #4 will be joining us in June!

This is how we told my Mom and sister's family when they came over on Halloween:

We had the pumpkins all lined up on the table and we waited to see how long it took them to notice the #4 pumpkin!

Halloween stuff!

Finally getting around to posting Halloween!

Love these 3!

Schneph Farms Field Trip

Every year we always love going to a pumpkin farm for part of the whole fall experience.  Sometimes we get our pumpkins there and sometimes we just go to Fry's for $5.  :)  But either way we have fun going and letting the kids do all the fun activities.  This year one of the homeschool group's field trips was at Schneph Farms.  We had not been to this one in a few years but thought we would give it a try.  This one was always fun, just far and a little more expensive.  Going with the field trip we got a big discount and we only had to pay for food.  It was nice more things were include in the price.  We went on a Friday morning so it was nice to not be as crowded and we were lucky it fell on a rare cool morning.  Made it so much nicer!

The girls got pumpkins painted on their arm right after we walked in

Early October happenings!

The first Saturday of every month Home Depot has a kids craft.  We took the kids in October to make an ambulance.  

Apple Picking

In mid September we got to do our fun tradition of Apple picking.  Our favorite farm for apple picking was open again this year so we were excited to head back there!  This year we were joined by my sister and family and her friends from small group.

Our School Room

Here are a few pictures of where we mostly do school!

A new kind of first day!

Right after Labor Day we experienced our "new" kind of first day!  Not only was it so nice to start after labor day, no more beginning of August :), but we are also now homeschooling!  We are just about 2 months in now and I am loving the schedule, the kids like it too.  :)  No more crazy running running around to pick people up and in and out of the car all day, so nice!  Alexa is done before lunch and Kaylee is done about 1:30 with her core subjects.  I still have her do a little more reading in the afternoon and maybe some writing practice but she is totally done by 3-3:30.  Before she was just getting home at that time and then would still have lots of homework after being exhausted from the day.  Now she has the whole afternoon to be a kid and play.  It took a few weeks to really get used to everything but we have a schedule we follow everyday to make sure all school work and chores are done and it seems to be working well!  We joined a homeschool coop and on Wed after lunch the girls have PE and then a park day with other kids from the group, and then Kaylee has also just joined the girl scout troop with the coop group that meets a couple times a month.  We have also gone on a few field trips with the coop.  With all that, Mom's group every other Tuesday morning, and Wed night and Sunday church we are keeping busy....a good busy though and not constantly waking Nolan up from a nap or in and out of the car.

Here are pictures from our first day.  Still wanted to make it special for the girls :).