Trick or Treating..brrrrrrr

Our first snow fall came Monday morning:( So sad... Fall went by so fast. The kids were so excited to go play in the snow. Though it barely covered the ground they were still able to throw a few snowballs at each other.









I think in about 10 minutes they had all the fun they were going to have out there .. it was toooo cold to play outside!

Tonight we took the kids across the street to go trick or treating in the neighbor hood. Torin was so excited that he would start yelling " trick or treat" from the driveway before we would reach the door. Kaden wanted to be a skeleton this year and Sage was of course a princess because she is our "Princess Sage" Though later she wanted to be snow white.... Luckily she has an array of dresses to choose from so she was able to change a few times before making the decision ( I understand the tough choices us girls have choosing just the right outfit for just the right occasion :-)It's a girl thing. Torin wanted to be "Blue's Clue" this year but I was never able to find a Blue's costume so he was my rootin tootin Cowboy. He played the part well! He had his rope , knife and handcuffs ready in case we ran across any rowdy hooligan's out there.

Costume #1--Princess

*Notice the new choice of costume * Just giving a little variety to the mix..



I think about here Torin started yelling "Trick or Treat" while his little feet tried to catch up to the other two..



Sage in costume number 2...Snow White

Torin loved his costume so much that he wore it all day..though i think he lost his britches somewhere during the excitement.

The plans

So i decided to change my blog a little. At least as best as I could right now. It seems to take me longer to figure out how all this stuff works. We have about 5 weeks left till we are off on our next adventure. The gaines family will be headed off to Orlando Florida in November. Owen and I both hate the snow (or at least 5 1/2 months of it). I will soon start keeping a daily journal on here to track our trip. Well that is my goal ..we'll have to see how well I can keep that up. We will be spending Thanksgiving with Owen's dad in TN. The kids are all looking forward to visiting and then going down to see the ocean. We had frost on the ground the other morning and the kids ran in to our room very early in the morning telling Owen and I that it was time to pack and go see uncle Donny and Aunt Amanda , who live in Orlando. To say the least the kidos are very excited to get on with our adventure also. We have several things with the house right now that I am hoping to get finished before we close it up for the winter. Finish painting my kitchen cabinets, Painting the never ending trim, and finish painting the walls in the entryway...Just little projects that are almost complete.

Kaden has been in school with Owen for a couple of months now and he has already learned so much. He wrote out his numbers 1-100 yesterday by himself and can now read small sentences. I am so proud and sad at the same time. I just can not believe how big he has gotten .Time goes so fast. I found some old pictures of him that i had forgotten about . I will post them up so you all can enjoy them as well and enjoy a picture of owen with hair ...hahah... I forgot he had so much hair.....

sand sand, and more sand

Last weekend owen and I decided to make a sand box for the kids. All three of them enjoy digging in the sand at the park for hours at at time. At first we measured a small square for the box then somewhere during the conversation it started to get bigger and bigger. We figured if we had it big enough then the kids could have there own corner to play and with less fights(haha)... It is now 7.5 x 6.5 feet. The kids love it. They have spent hours each day out there all ready.

My new job now has become tasting sand pies and sand soup for the kids:) They have become quit the chef's.

Kaden has also started homeschooling with Owen. He is so excited to start reading. It makes is pretty easy to get him to do his work when he's so excited. I just hope we can continue this energy throughout the year. He read his first sentence last week and is solving basic addition and subtraction problems. It has been very exciting to actually see him start putting math problems and words together .

Sage and Torin have also been working on their letters with me. We have been going through the alphabet and counting our numbers to 10. Sage is getting better every day . But last week she was stuck on the letter "H" and she was sitting there thinking about it when Torin all of a sudden shouted" H"!! I started laughing so hard which triggered their laughter (though i am not sure if they new why we were laughing) I had no idea that Torin could say any of the alphabet let alone recognize them..hahah

Kids!! They are so funny!!!