Movies!!!

My mom and I took the kids (plus my niece) on a Saturday morning to go see a movie. John was gone with the youth on an all day activity so we decided to go have 

some fun too!

This was my first time taking the 3 big kids to a movie. Normally my mom or sister take them. So this was a fun event. We saw Frozen, which was Awesome!!! Then we enjoyed some yummy Chick-fil-A. Since it was right before Christmas there was this huge Christmas Tree in front of the theater. The kids had to have their picture taken with it.

Christmas Cookies & Gingerbread houses

One of my family's Christmas traditions is to spend a day baking all different kinds of Christmas cookies to give to friends and neighbors. The kids always enjoying going to grandma and grandpa's house to do this because they get to taste all different kinds of cookies and help decorate some.

This year we also got to spend an evening with the Burke's, Gibsons, and Westover's making ginger bread houses. The kids had a BLAST and made some pretty cute houses. They had TONS and TONS of candy to choose from. 

 Maybe we'll have to make this a new tradition.

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.