Joseph Runs for Office

As some of you may know, Joseph decided to run for Student Council. The campaigning only lasted one week but it was a long one! We all pitched in and helped him out from making posters to putting together pencils with his name and picture on them. Today was Election Day for Winchester Elementary and our kids were prepared for the hardest day of campaigning yet. Both went to school armed with goodies to hand out with Joe's name to wearing large campaign buttons reminding everyone that Joe is the man for the job. Anyway....we are all so proud of him (and ourselves for that matter..lol) we wanted to share his posters with you all. Tomorrow the winners are announced so check back for the results!

Fall Festival

Tonight we celebrated Fall Festival at our kids school, Winchester Elementary. This gives the kids an opportunity to wear their costumes and celebrate with their friends since they are not allowed to wear costumes on Halloween as the school feels it is a distraction to the learning process. Here is a preview of what they will look like on Halloween =)

Joey G, Evie the Peep & Maddie the Queen of Hearts
Madison w/ her teacher, Mr. Wible

Joseph w/his teacher, Mr. Miller

Evie the Peep

Evelyn walks.....with some assistance.

Catching up!

Well, it has been a very busy last couple of weeks for us. At the end of September we went to Oak Glen apple orchards with a large group of family to celebrate my Aunt JoAnne's birthday. We had a wonderful time!

Joseph has started playing football, singing in the school's choir and being a good student all around. It has been an amazing year for him so far. Not to mention that we just went to Six Flags Magic Mountain on October 11th to celebrate Joseph's 9th birthday! Steve & I still have not been able to figure out how the time went so fast =(

The girls are doing great also. Madison is not involved in any sports or dancing at the moment but spends much of her free time playing with her friends. As always, she is doing very well in school also. Evelyn just turned 9 months old and is almost walking. On October 5th she said her first two word sentence...."bye, bye momma". It was great to hear but at the same time sad because I was trying to get her to say goodbye to her Nanny, not me!! She is such a good baby and we are having such a great time with her. Madison loves playing mommy to Evie and is a big help!

Pictures of our recent Adventures

Joseph with Uncle Scott at Oak Glen (9-28-08)

Madison in a fire truck at Oak Glen (9-28-08)

Evie at Joseph's football practice (10-10-08)

Batman, Superman & Supergirl...aka Uncle Paul, Joseph & Madison
@ Six Flags Magic Mountain (10-11-08)

Jean, Maddie & Katie at Six Flags (10-11-08)

Maddie, Steve, Jean & Joe at Six Flags
(10-11-08)

1st Tooth

Evelyn cut her first tooth today....finally =) She has been teething for almost five months now. The bottom left tooth broke through this morning. You can see a little of it but you can most definitely feel it! We are so excited!!

She's Crawling!

Finally, Finally, FINALLY! Evelyn began crawling today =) For a while now she would get up on her hands and knees and rock back and forth. I was so excited this morning that I called Steve at work to share the news. Just last night we were both saying how we wished she would just crawl already and now she is =)

Baby giggles are the BEST!

Silly Girl

We went out to dinner last night and Evelyn was doing some silly stuff. I couldn't help but record it on my phone so that we can share it with all of you. ENJOY =)

Evelyn is getting so big!

Evelyn has grown by leaps and bounds! It is so hard to believe that she is nearly 8 months old now. She has recently figured out how to get herself from off of her belly to sitting up. When we saw her do this we clapped and cheered for her. Evie then mimicked the cheering by clapping for herself. Now she claps when ever she does almost anything. It's so cute =)

Evelyn is also trying to crawl and walk. She gets up on her hands and knees but then tries to climb to her feet. It's pretty funny....although she doesn't think so. Evie gets very frustrated. She is pulling herself up on people and standing up all of the time.

1st day of School

It's here.....it's here....it's finally here!! It's the first day of school for Joseph and Madison. I love our children dearly but they have been driving me crazy all summer long. This is the first time that I have been home with them for an entire summer. It's exhausting! Although my sanity is happy that it may return (somewhat) I am also so sad to see my baby's get yet another year older. At least I have Evelyn and her discoveries to help keep me busy =) However, she is also growing rapidly before our eyes.

Where a kid can be a kid!

The kids and I escaped the house for a little while and went to Chuck E Cheese the other day to play. Joseph & Madison love that place. They are always asking to go there. Since we have been stuck in the house most of the summer we went to run off some energy. The girls and I took pictures but Joseph, of course, was too cool to =)

Evie's vocabulary is expanding =)

Evelyn began to talk about a month or so ago. Her first word was "baba" (bottle) which she said all of the time. Which is fitting since she loves to eat =) Well, this past Sunday she added a new word to her vocabulary and the winner is.............. "dada". This, of course, made Steve very happy! She does everything with much excitement and talking is no exception!!

Evie & Tony go night-night

Evelyn is finally big enough & strong enough to hold her own around my nephew Anthony(he's 15mo old & big). This is exciting because they can actually play together now! Well after playing for a little while on Saturday night both of them were both very tired so I put them down together. It was so cute to see them sleeping in the same crib =)

Evelyn turns 6 months old!

Evelyn turned exactly six months old today! Where has the time gone? She's now rolling over both ways, sitting up unassisted, and started drinking juice from a sippy cup today. Evelyn loves the water so I took a video of her bath this morning to share.

Evie at Silverwood Lake

I just thought this picture was too cute not to share with everyone!

Evelyn rolls over!

I've been home with the monkeys for almost a month now and each day I place the baby on her back or belly and just wait for her to roll over. Of course, she never quite makes it all the way off of her side. Well, yesterday I had a doctor's appointment so I had my mom watching the kids. About 30 minutes after I leave what does Evelyn do but roll over of course! Luckily she gave a repeat performance when I picked them up from my mom's. I can't believe I forgot how amazing the firsts really are!!!

Can you believe we were ever this young?

Thanks to some great friends I was able to come across these pictures (and others). It is so hard to believe (looking back now) that we were ever so young. The kids took a look at these and laugh at what mom and dad used to be =)

Caring for Sissy =)

Joseph fell asleep while taking care of Evelyn while I showered.

He's such a good Bub...very helpful and loving!

Yummy breakfast!!

Playing around!!

Evie loves being a naked monkey!

My girls can't get enough of eachother =)