Madison is 6

Madison turned 6 and is growing by leaps and bounds. Her reading is exploding and she is turning into my big helper. She is such a JOY to have in our family. She helps me a ton and LOVES LOVES LOVES being the BIG sister. 

We started her birthday with Pancakes for Breakfast!

Then since it was a holiday for Daddy we headed to the Children's Museum of the Desert in Palm Springs for a day of play. We have heard great things about this place and have been wanting to go for quite some time. Man was this place great!!! We ALL enjoyed it! I wish is was closer to our  house!!! (See more photos from our day at the museum here.)

After the museum we stopped at Red Robin for some yummy dinner and Birthday dessert for Madison. It was a GREAT Day!!!

We got to have a little birthday party a few days later with the family. Madison was spoiled as usual. We are so blessed to have amazing families that live so close!!!

She was really excited to get CASH!!!

Children's Museum of the Desert

The Children's Museum of the Desert is AWESOME!!!!!!

We met the Gibson's out there on Madison's birthday and the kids all had a blast. I just wish is was closer because it was SO MUCH FUN!!!!

 

 Katelyn thought this ball thing was awesome! She had so much fun trying to catch the ball.

 There was a Pizzeria and Grocery store for the kids. They could have stayed an played their all day. They were in HEAVEN!

And of course, there was dress up clothes!

 

Claudia was so excited to see the Veterinarian clinic. She is obsessed with Doc McStuffins so this was perfect for her!

What a GREAT DAY!!!!!

Baseball

 

Charles played another season of Little League and had a great season. He is improving so much and enjoying it more and more! Here are a few HORRIBLE camera phone shots. Maybe next season I'll have to bring my big camera to get some better photos.

Charles' coaches this season were great!!! The head coach gave out the game ball each game to the kid that did something Awesome!!! Charles wanted to get a game ball so bad. Well he finally got one on October 26th. 

He was given the game ball because he got a hit. He struggled at the beginning of the season to hit the ball. He was afraid it would hit him instead.

Bowling

Daddy had Veterans day off so we decided to take advantage of the extra Family Fun day. We headed to the bowling alley with the Burkes, Gibsons, Grandma Garthe, and the Lakey's. We had a lot of fun! 

 

Madison was SO EXCITED she got a STRIKE!!!!  

Katelyn entertained herself in the shelves.

Halloween Fun

 Halloween was a little less eventful this year. We did not attend Grandma Garthe's work Halloween party because she was on leave due to foot surgery. I actually heard that they cancelled it all together since we usually make up more then half of the kids that attend the party. And my parents ward Trunk-o-Treat was on the same night as ours so we ended up only doing one Trunk-o-Treat and Trick-o-Treating on Halloween night. It was great!!

My parents, my sister Julya, our friend Randi, and my brother's family joined us at the Trunk-o-treat.

On Halloween night we had; the Burke's, plus grandma Garthe, the Gibson's, the Lakey's, and the Westover's over for dinner and then Trick-o-Treating. It was fun to be with so many people. The kids had a great time!!

My parents came at the end of the night to see the kids. We had fun passing out candy and getting rid of some of the candy the kids had just collected!!! Hahaha!!!

I wish I had taken better photos of the kids costumes. Claudia was a Pirate (She called herself Izzy from Jake and the Neverland Pirates) Katelyn was her Parrot. 

Madison was Little Mermaid. I found this cute skirt tuturial and ended up making her costume. And Charles was the Red Power Ranger. 

One day I'll do a family theme! But for now I'm glad they all looked cute!!