Here are a few pictures of what's been going on with our family:
Our first snow of the season. Isn't it beautiful? It didn't last long but it was sure a pretty sight.
The kids and I (Mostly ME) made homemade applesauce. We borrowed this fantastic contraption from our friends and bottled I don't even know how many jars of homemade sauce. It is SOOOOOO Yummy!! (And Healthy too!) 
The annual carving of the pumpkins and a fun family photo. 
Here is a picture of the kids ready to go trick or treating. Logan was pirate, Kaya was a black cat, and Emily was a Viking's Cheerleader. This picture was taken on Kaya's second day of having H1N1 (Swine Flu). The poor girl was totally wiped out for day 1 and started feeling better on day 2. (Halloween). For the next 5 days she would be fine ALL day and then get a fever every night. She couldn't go back to school until the fever was gone. Luckily no one else in the house got sick with what she had. 
However, Emily did get sick with something else on the day Kaya went back to school. She woke up late one night with a really high fever, rapid heartbeat, and shallow breathing. I ended up taking her into the ER since Kaya had just gotten over the swine flu. It turns out she had some other virus that only lasted for about 2 days. Thank goodness!
Emily is now 15 months old. She doesn't walk...she RUNS. She climbs, sings, talks, picks on Logan, and is such a sweet girl. She's getting in 4 molars right now and boy has she been grumpy. But the sweetness surely outweighs the grumps. She knows more than 2 dozen words and surprises us with new ones every day.
On a sad note, Aaron's grandfather passed away on November 12th. It is always difficult to lose a loved one, but we are happy that he has been relieved of his earthly body and the pains associated with it. Grandpa James Stanford will be dearly missed. Here is a picture of Aaron's grandparents on their 60th wedding anniversary. 
We recently decided we wanted to upgrade our minivan to something bigger with more power for towing. We don't do car payments so we decided to sell both our vehicles in order to get what we wanted. Aaron's truck sold in 24 hours. WOW!! We ended up trading in the minivan to the dealership where we bought our new family ride. It's a 2003 Chevrolet Express 3500 Van. It's a 12 passenger van but we'll take out the very last row for extra storage when camping and on long trips. We got a GREAT deal and best of all...paid CASH. Aaron has a company vehicle which made this possible too. We'll save our money now so that Aaron can buy a 4 wheel drive "beater" vehicle to take exploring and geocaching.
The kids and I (Mostly ME) made homemade applesauce. We borrowed this fantastic contraption from our friends and bottled I don't even know how many jars of homemade sauce. It is SOOOOOO Yummy!! (And Healthy too!) 
The annual carving of the pumpkins and a fun family photo. 
Here is a picture of the kids ready to go trick or treating. Logan was pirate, Kaya was a black cat, and Emily was a Viking's Cheerleader. This picture was taken on Kaya's second day of having H1N1 (Swine Flu). The poor girl was totally wiped out for day 1 and started feeling better on day 2. (Halloween). For the next 5 days she would be fine ALL day and then get a fever every night. She couldn't go back to school until the fever was gone. Luckily no one else in the house got sick with what she had. 
However, Emily did get sick with something else on the day Kaya went back to school. She woke up late one night with a really high fever, rapid heartbeat, and shallow breathing. I ended up taking her into the ER since Kaya had just gotten over the swine flu. It turns out she had some other virus that only lasted for about 2 days. Thank goodness!Emily is now 15 months old. She doesn't walk...she RUNS. She climbs, sings, talks, picks on Logan, and is such a sweet girl. She's getting in 4 molars right now and boy has she been grumpy. But the sweetness surely outweighs the grumps. She knows more than 2 dozen words and surprises us with new ones every day.
On a sad note, Aaron's grandfather passed away on November 12th. It is always difficult to lose a loved one, but we are happy that he has been relieved of his earthly body and the pains associated with it. Grandpa James Stanford will be dearly missed. Here is a picture of Aaron's grandparents on their 60th wedding anniversary. 
We recently decided we wanted to upgrade our minivan to something bigger with more power for towing. We don't do car payments so we decided to sell both our vehicles in order to get what we wanted. Aaron's truck sold in 24 hours. WOW!! We ended up trading in the minivan to the dealership where we bought our new family ride. It's a 2003 Chevrolet Express 3500 Van. It's a 12 passenger van but we'll take out the very last row for extra storage when camping and on long trips. We got a GREAT deal and best of all...paid CASH. Aaron has a company vehicle which made this possible too. We'll save our money now so that Aaron can buy a 4 wheel drive "beater" vehicle to take exploring and geocaching.
5 comments:
What a fun update--well except the sick part. Your kids are just too cute. I love the new ride and think it's great you don't have any payments. We did that too. Makes life soooo much easier.
Yay for the bus... Boo for the swine flu.
I love all these pictures! I wish I would have thought to take a picture of the snow...it was beautiful! Loved all your Halloween pics! So cute! Congrats on the new van! Very cool and extra cool that it's paid for! I'm sorry you guys have been sick, but hope you're all doing well now!
Nice ride. I drove one of those around in high school, but we didn't call it a BMV or a MAV, instead it was known as the immigration bus and we'd shout "La Migra" while driving it, way fun... have fun with it!
Brittany wants you to bring some of your applesauce to Cali at christmas.
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