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Halloween

We had a fun Halloween and birthday weekend. Friday night Jim and I went to Cheesecake Factory for dinner and then started some Christmas shopping for the kids. We enjoyed the night away from the kids and came home to a very clean house thanks to our awesome babysitter Haley. That girl has very fast and good cleaning skills! The kids love her too!

Saturday morning Jim and the kids woke me up and had yummy cinnamon rolls and fruit for breakfast. They all had little presents for me and were so excited for my birthday. It is so fun having kids to celebrate with. Thomas had a soccer game that afternoon. I stayed home with M&K and took a nap while they were it was so nice! We had a gourmet dinner of sloppy Joe's, I ate my cheesecake factory leftovers. Jim got me this yummy cookie cake from Sam's club. All the kids helped me blow out candles, which is their favorite part of birthdays!

Matthew took every one's candles and loaded them onto his piece of cookie and asked Jim to light it for him.

For costumes this year we let the kids pick out their own. Kaylee saw the angel costume and had to have it. She is all girl! Matthew loved Thomas's old skeleton costume so it saved us from buying another one. Thomas decided on a clone trooper from star wars (which he is too scared to watch). We just stayed in our neighborhood and got to meet some of our neighbors. We drove to our friends in the ward who live in the neighborhood, but aren't so close. The kids thought it was pretty cool that they got to sit in the back not in their car seats.

I got released from my calling in Young Women's on Sunday. I have been working with the 12 & 13 year old girls for about a year. With the baby coming it was just going to be too hard to do it all. Right now I'm calling free, which is kind of nice because I fee like I have so much to do to get ready for this baby and Christmas and Thomas's birthday. I'm 35 weeks so I don't have too much longer. I start going to the Dr. every week now! Because of the c-section with Matthew, I can't be induced so I just have to wait until she is ready to come, which is hard because I'd much rather have it all planned. Oh well it will just make it all the more exciting. I can't believe that it is November, the year has really flown by!

Pumpkins & Mud

We got Thomas some Trio blocks and he loves them. He has so much fun building things with them. This is a robot he built. They come with easy to follow "blue prints" to build a variety of things.

So we met our Sachse Friends at the Flower Mound pumpkin patch this morning. It was a muddy mess, but we still had fun. Hopefully it will dry up and we can go again and get a few better pictures. Here's a sampling of our fun this morning.

Kaylee enjoying a granola bar, mud and all!

Rainy Days

We've had what feels like a month of rainy days here lately. I'm enjoying the cooler weather, but not the rain! We all get way to stir crazy. It is supposed to dry up a the end of the week and I really hope it does!

 Here's a few pix of Matthew and Kaylee this morning. I've decided to seperate them for naptime. It is going pretty well. Matthew is sleeping in Thomas's bed and Kaylee stays in their room. I had to sit with Kaylee yesterday until she fell asleep because she was so sad Matthew wasn't there.  Matthew likes sleeping in Thomas's room, though today he wanted to go to his room so I gave him a chance, but neither one would lay down, they just wanted to play so I put him back in Thomas's room. They fell asleep much quicker!

Kaylee in pigtails, I think she looks very cute :)

I love her big blue eyes!!

Here I am at 32 weeks and 4 days...I'm not anywhere close to how big I was with M&K, but it still feels big to me!

Toddler Beds

Well last week Matthew decided he did not want to sleep in his bed anymore. We weren't really ready to take off their crib tents off and let them have their freedom, but we didn't have a choice. The first couple of nights we just had them on pallets in front of their crib because we wanted a place to put them when they were naughty. They did pretty good and we decided there was no turning back so we took off the crib tents (sad day for me) and the front of their cribs and now they have toddler beds. They were very excited about their beds not being cages anymore.  Matthew decided he liked sleeping on the floor and didn't want to sleep in his crib so we made him a pallet on the floor and he was happy. Kaylee was in her crib, but crying and Jim went in and she pointed to the floor. She wanted to be on the floor like Matthew.  On Monday, she laid on the floor first and then when I went in to check on them she was in her bed. I guess she decided she didn't have to be on the floor just because Matthew was!

Yesterday they were very naughty at naptime. I put them down and had to go in a couple of times because they were playing and being noisy.  I decided I'd wait a while to go in even though they weren't asleep, when I did I found both of themin the sink in their room with about an inch of water on the floor!  I freaked out. They had pushed the ottoman from their rocking chair into their bathroom area (they just have a sink in their room and it connects to the bathroom through a  door that we keep locked). I started grabbing towels and soaking up the water and throwing the towels in the tub. I went through all the towels upstairs.  I got them changed because they were soaking wet and went downstairs to check out the damage. We had a couple streams of water coming down the ceiling in our closet, luckily it was just on the carpet and not anything else. Put some towels and bowls down and then went back upstairs and found some water in the closet that I had missed. M&K never went to sleep, we had to get Thomas from school so I didn't force the issue. I was too worn out.  When Jim got home he pulled the carpet up in their room because it was pretty wet. We used the fan for our bounce house to dry the wood and pad and it is all back to normal today.  We took everything out of their room but their beds. We put the dresser in the closet with a door knob cover so they can't get into it anymore. Oh, they had pulled all the clothes out of their dresser and wore working on the clothes in the closet! Twins really do get into more trouble together!

I took these pictures yesteday before the water incident. You can see they are looking a little naught, if I had only known!

Matthew is really into cars lately. He takes them everywhere with them. 

Kaylee and her funny face!

Matthew this morning

We finally got some pictures up in our family room. I blew up our family picture at the beach at Costco ($5 for an 18x20) and hung the kids most recent pictures. We left a spot for baby girl under Kaylee's picture.

I'm 31 1/2 weeks and everything is going great! My one craving is Salt and Vinegar chips, only certain brands though, they have to be vinegary or they don't satisfy me. I'm going to the Dr. every 2 weeks now so it is all going to go by fast now! I'll have to get Jim to take a pix of me and I'll post it next time. I also have an ultrasound picture to post, but haven't scanned it yet.

Matthew Singing

So we haven't been doing much lately that I have been taking pictures of so I haven't been blogging lately. We are just busy doing the same old same old. I can't believe that it is October tomorrow! I've got to get my Christmas shopping done because I know once this baby girl comes in December I won't be getting out and doing much! This pregnancy is just flying by, I'll be 31 weeks on Friday! I am getting really tired in the afternoons. I fall asleep on the couch a lot and the kids just crawl all over me, not the most restful way to sleep, but it works! We're still working on the name. I have one I like, but Jim isn't convinced yet. I did get bedding for her room. I found it on eBay and got this 9 piece set for just $50! It is all new in the bag. It doesn't come with the curtains, hamper or mobile, but pretty much everything else! A very generous friend gave us her crib, car seat, high chair, exersaucer and tons of clothes. She will be one well dressed little girl! We had gotten rid of the majority of our baby stuff because we thought we were done so we are very grateful that she gave us so much stuff.I made some play dough today. I usually just buy play dough, but thought I would be more frugal and make some. The kids loved it and it really is better than the store bought stuff. My mom always cuts straws up and the kids use them as candles so I did the same. Matthew started singing happy birthday and I had to get it on video because it was so cute! Enjoy

Grandpa Anderson's birthday is tomorrow, so this is for you!

BYU vs. OU

I can't believe I haven't blogged about the BYU vs. OU game! It was so much fun! Trish flew down from Salt Lake and Gabe and Mom drove in from Arkansas. Mom watched the kids for us so she didn't go to the game. It was one of the best games I've been to. It was in the NEW Dallas Cowboys stadium which is super nice. We somehow got awesome seats, 8th row in the corner by the endzone.  It was just a lot of fun!  Adrian and Kate came with us, they flew in from Utah also. (Jim grew up with Adrian in Boise and they were roomies while we were dating.) Here's some pictures from our fun night. We went thinking that BYU will most likely lose, but it will be a fun night anyway. We were so glad that they won! It looks like the Cougars are going to have a good season again. Jim is even thinking of renewing his cougar club membership :)

1st Soccer Game

Thomas had his first soccer game last night and he did great! We had so much fun watching him and his team the Superheroes!  He scored 4 goals, the first couple of the game.  He has a great coach who is very encouraging and doesn't get angry when they just stand there and watch the ball go by.  We are very excited for our first soccer season!

Jim sporting his new "do." He shaved his hair completely off!

The soccer fields are at a park with great playground equipment so Kaylee and Matthew had fun playing on everything during the game.

Matthew really wanted to play soccer with Thomas, luckily there were extra balls he could play with!

Kaylee picking flowers. I edited this photo in PSE, I ran an action on it that really makes the colors pop on it.  The "before" picture is after it. I downloaded the actions free from this site. It has tons of great freebies on it so check it out!!

Thomas is busy!

Thomas started Pre-K last week. He is going 3 days a week and loves it! Here are some pictures of him his frist day back.

He also started soccer last week. He missed his first game because we were driving home from Florida, but he is so excited to play. He has his first game this week so we are excited to watch him and see how he does!

Warming up with the coach

He is pumped up to play!

Kicking practice

Matthew upset he can't practice with the big boys!

Kaylee carrying the ball

M&K playing inthe goal, they got stuck a couple of times :)

Some Beach Pictures

So here are some pictures of the kids having fun at the beach.  Kaylee and Matthew loved it and were not scared at all. It was great!

Thomas and Gabby had a great time playing together. They loved the boogie boards, especially when we got bigger waves the last couple of days. Thomas spent most of this time in the ocean.

Kaylee loved the sand. She would just sit and dig in the sand and sing little songs it was so cute. She also loved floating in her ring and on a boogie board.

Matthew would just run full throttle into the water. He got tossed around in the waves a few times and just loved it! He would hop up and run back in. It was nice to have Gabe around to help keep up with him!