Sydney and her friend ready for the ward party. Watch out Cyndi Lauper!

Another Week Has Passed!

The holidays are around the corner. I can just feel the busy coming on!!!I need to post some pictures before another week goes by!

Kallie as Shawn Johnson the Olympian.

Then we have Kallie and her very best friend Dariann. She lives two doors down and are inseparable! According to Kallie, the only difference between them is that Kallie doesn't wear deodorant! Well, we just made it official: Kallie finally needs deodorant and has started using it. She was SOO happy!

Look who is in Surprise!

If you haven't seen it yet, PeiWei is here on Bell Rd. between Litchfield and Bullard. We went Saturday night and all the tables were filled. The lady who took our order said last weekend, the line was out the door and there was a 2-hour wait! The lettuce wraps are my favorite. Jason always tries something different everytime and got the Thai Dynamite. He liked it too. You gotta go!!!

Weekly Round-up!

Josh is the first one to have his costume ready this year, only because he keeps bugging me about when he is going to get it! Sydney is 1/2 way done with hers, I am making Averie's mermaid fin today, and we need to work on Kallie's next week. Not to mention Jason and I have to come up with something "simply smashing" for a party next Friday. I don't have enough time! But, who does?

Joshua jumped into the car so excited and said,"I won Math Around The World"! In his math class they played this game where one kid stands by another kid and the teacher will give a math fact. The first kid who answers correctly wins and moves to the next kid, etc. Josh made his way around the whole room and won! I am especially proud because I stink at math. I think we may have broken the cycle of math retardation!

This was another busy week. Kallie went to JA Biztown in Tempe for a fieldtrip. They had 19 lessons to prepare them to go. They learned all about how money "travels" through the economy, including paying taxes. The "town" was set up with a bank, insuance agency, cafe, grocery store, news & T.V. studio, radio, delivery center, construction office, surf shop alot of other stores and you can't forget City Hall! Kallie was in the travel agency. They got a "paycheck" after working hard in their jobs and got to go to the bank and deposit their check, set up a savings account, and spend money in the town. It was such a great experience. There were even CEO's for each company and the CFO's kept track of all the accounting stuff for their business on an easy computer program. The kids loved it! I had a great time too. I was helping out in the Allstate Insurance.

My Husband...

If you know Jason, this picture may not suprise you. The house is definitely more lively when he gets home. The kids all come to greet him at the door and without fail Josh gives him a "Karate Chop" to the legs pretty much when he gets in the door. He makes life fun, we love him and are glad he's the dad of the house.

Our exercise machine...

Josh is turning into an exercising machine. Lately he is very concerned about his muscles and exercising. He tells us he has been running around at recess, does push-ups, jumping jacks and wants us to feel his biceps all the time. It cracks us up!

A Funny Thing...

Averie is a nut. She makes me laugh. The other day she was in her bed all ready for her nap. I said, "I love you!" and she said it back and I hugged her. I said it again and hugged her and she said "I love you" back. I was playing around and hugged her a third time and said, "I love you" and she said, "Get away!" How soon things change!