Family Bowling Night

Novembers Fire Wives Girls Night Out was a family bowling night. We all had such a great time, all the kids had a blast and I think the dads did too. Ashley almost be both mine and Dans score, she even got her own strike. =)

Dan was the winner in our family

Go Ashley!

This was her strike

The whole gang

Bounce Party

After decorating our Adopted tree at church we headed over to the Wallace's for some bounce house fun. They had rented a bounce house for their kids for the weekend and needed kids to come use it up. Turns out that all the parents had a good time playing in it and the kids loved it too. =) Weeee

Jason & Tyrell

Doug and Lilleeann

Max

I'm gonna getcha

Jason and Christine

Lilleeann

Shutterfly Cards

Thought I would let you in on a pretty sweet deal. Thank you to my friend Stephanie for posting this on her blog, you too can now be in on the offer. Shutterfly is having a Holiday Card Promotion...50 FREE CARDS!!! Who doesn't like free, right? We are huge into sending out photo cards and I think all our friends and family enjoy getting new pictures of the girls every year. We also love to receive photo cards from all of our family and friends. We have used Shutterfly in the past for ordering Photo Books, which also make great gifts, and the grand parents love getting calendars each year, lets them see the family all year long. Now it's your turn, go ahead click here to get your 50 FREE Cards and don't forget to add us to your mailing list. =) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Our Family to Yours!

Adopt a Tree

Our church was looking for families and small groups to adopt a campus tree for the holiday season. With over a hundred trees on our campus they needed some help decorating them for "The Heights Christmas Experience". You know me being the decorator that I am I jumped on this opportunity and signed us up. =) The big campus lighting will take place after the six o'clock service on Saturday, November 27th. Here are some pictures of us decorating "our" tree. =)

We had to go up every branch then back down before going to the next branch, It took us 3 1/2 hours to do just this one tree.
Do you see what I see? ;}

Self portrait

Ashley took this one too

Our finished tree

Fires

So before it started getting too cold, we finally took advantage of all our free space in the back yard and built a fire pit. We had a few nights of fires and smore roasting, it was so fun. Now it's a little to chilly to be sittin' by the fire. =(

Choppin' Wood

Our neighbor Nick came down one night and can you believe he had never had a smore???? This is him with his 1st ever smore. =)

Awww and he even shared a bite with his wife Sha' and daughter Michaela.

After trick or treating we did a fire with Heather and Jimmy too.

The girls had fun playing together while the adults enjoyed talking and eating smores.

Out of Storage?!?

We are out of storage on our blog...does that mean I blog too much and put too many pictures up....naaaa...not meee. =) Well, if I didn't guess I wouldn't be out of storage. But have no fear... I just purchased some more storage but its gonna take about 24 hours to kick in. So I will be back with some more posts to get you up to date on the latest and greatest happenings of our family. =)

Gymnastics

Ashley (and the boys) started gymnastics on the 5th. We have been wanting to get her in something to help her burn off some of her energy for a while now, we put her on the wait list a few months back and they finally called, the great thing is we were able to get Arlo and Zeno in the class as well, YAY!! The first day of gymnastics was a success and all three kids loved it and can't wait to go back again. Here are some pictures from their first day.

Ready to stretch

donkey kicks

shes a natural on the bars...

I wonder why...

oh yeah...shes part monkey!

Arlo

Zeno

Shes so focused on the balance beam

Zeno wasn't too sure about it.

Stamps for a job well done.

Smokey the Bear

Last week we went to the library to see smokey the bear. Lot's of Ashley's friends were able to meet us there. We had gone last year, but this time was so much better, after telling the story of how smokey became smokey they took the kids outside to see the Forest Fire Truck and even let them spray the hose, all the kids loved it!
Yeah she wanted nothing to do with Smokey the Bear this year..ask her about him and she can just about recite his whole story to you.

using the fire hose

Jacob in Ashley in the fire truck

Jacob, Ashley, Arlo and Zeno

Ashley and Miss Darlene the Librarian