Halloween 2016

 Halloween is always sooo much fun!  From my childhood, we would always make our costumes, not buy them.  And I love to make the costumes now for the kiddos!!  

For Nathan, he loves Minions.  So we put together the cutest Minion outfit.  He looks real!!  And he was so proud to be a minion!

Kaylee wanted to be Ariel.  So again, we designed and sewed her beautiful mermaid outfit.  It was sooo difficult to get the fin to look and work correctly.  I think it was tricky for her to actually move around very easily.  So I don't think she liked wearing it a ton. But she enjoyed being Ariel. Complete with the wig!

Cooper wanted to dress up like Donald Trump!  A little risky, but that's how Cooper rolls!!  He looked the part, acted the part, and said all the right statements lol.  

Jaxton wanted to be Abraham Lincoln!  And Dawson wanted to be an Incredible!

Pumpkins

 

Pumpkin carving!  Always so much fun at Halloween!

Fall Leaves

 My favorite time of year is fall.  The leaves are the best.  Here we are waiting for big kids at school, rolling around in the piles of leaves!!  Happy Fall!

Cub Scout Fun

 Bear Scouts are a lot of fun - 3rd Graders! We cleaned the church building as a service project and carved pumpkins with our pocket knives, using our newly acquired pocket knife skills!  Melinda Ambrose is my partner in teaching the bears.  She is committed, thoughtful and dedicated to our calling, just as much as me.  We work so well together.  She brings a great amount to our partnership and we both have a passion to make this the best experience ever for these boys.  I am grateful for Melinda. 

Mary Todd - Piano

 

Jaxton and Cooper began piano lessons at Oak Farm with Mary Todd.  She is absolutely wonderful and is teaching them the Suzuki Method of piano.  Both boys are thriving.  Mary is very talented.  They are scheduled during the school day, so they leave the classroom for 30 minutes to work with Mary.  Its been the best!

School Photos Oak Farm

 

Jaxton - 3rd Grade

Cooper - 2nd Grade

Kaylee - Kindergarten

Pictures of Mom & Kay

 

Reader's Choice 2016

We won the Reader's Choice Award for the first time ever!  Simplx is a winner in our community!  This is such a big deal and we are so excited.  Here is the article we put out there! 

Preschool Fun

With our new preschool group, it has been a lot of fun getting back into fun preschool activities.  My first teaching week we did "All About Me" books which was a lot of fun!  We made pancakes with faces and traced our bodies with chalk outside.  Recently we had a field trip to Matea County Park and got an official tour through the woods.  The guide let Dawson let a monarch butterfly go that had recently come out of its chrysalis in the nature center.  That was exciting! 

We did another preschool day on "spontaneous delight" from the joy school curriculum and fingerprinted and built a fort to eat our stovetop popcorn and lunch inside.  

We took another field trip to Hilgars Pumpkin patch.  We had a hayride and Pumpkin story time and played at the farm.  Preschool has been loads of fun so far!

Preschool Fun

 Preschool for Dawson is a joy!  Crew, Keagan, Dawson, and Caleb love to get their hands messy and play outside.  Lots of fun this preschool season!

P is for: painting, popcorn, pancakes!

Tara's Baby Shower

Every pregnancy deserves a baby shower, even if it's your 6th!!  Simplx showered me with all things baby boy blue today, and it was a thoughtful, fun time.  Thank you team!!

Dawson plays soccer

 This was Dawson's first time playing soccer on a team.  He is all smiles.  He is such a happy kid!