So….Faith found the one and only lipstick that I own and decided she wanted to do a little redecorating! I was taking a shower and Faith and Noah were both playing in the bathroom…they brought in a couple of chairs and were playing train engineer. It was so cute. But fast forward about 5 minutes and all I heard was Noah yelling at Faith, “You know better Faith, you’re not supposed to do that. You got my door all dirty. Now clean it up. MOM…look what Faith did now”.

It came off the door very easy, but the wall didn’t fair so well. I’m assuming there is a paint job in my future. There were also a couple of spots that didn’t get out of the carpet either. But on a positive note, she did try to help clean up.

I am a little late posting this…this did happen towards the end of January. For those of you that have Facebook, you’ve probably already seen it.

After the kids went to bed, the fun began for us because Santa came to our house!!! He needed to come a little early being that we would be in Iowa for Christmas. The next morning, Faith was the first one up and we went downstairs and she walked right past the tree, then all of the sudden stopped, turned and sat down next to the presents. I didn’t wrap up the Little People House and accessories, so she spotted that right away and wanted to play with the car that was in the bag. Once Noah woke up, he was all about opening the presents. It was so fun watching their expressions when they would open a new present.

Here are a few pictures….

We hosted Thanksgiving down in KC this year. Ryan, Dee, Jack, Nick, Renae, Micah, Kahle, Bodee, and Reid all come down for the holiday. It was so great having everyone here and it was such great weather, that we got to play at the park and outside. The kids even raced bikes and scooters at night!

This last weekend, the Arends clan come to stay with us!!! It’s always a good time while they are here! Although they did make me go shopping….AND buy some new jeans! Ask my sister, that’s a big accomplishment!!!! They must have caught me in a really good mood or something!!!

Noah actually slept in the living room with all the kids during the night…they had their own little slumber party!!! Sunday night after they left, Noah asked when they were coming back because he wanted to sleep with them!!!! How cute is that!

And for those of you who get the email, you can’t see the embedded video, so here is the link:
http://youtu.be/LUTgS4aiazM

My mom came down for a visit over the Halloween weekend!!! Noah knew about it about a month before, so it was a LONG wait before she got here. Almost every day he would ask if Silly Grandma was on her way. But when she finally did get here, we were busy pretty much the whole time!!! Let’s see if I can remember everything!

Mom got here on Thursday the 27th around noon. So we got caught up a little bit and played.

After supper, we headed out to the “Enchanted Forest”. We got a little candy there and there was little stations throughout the park that you could stop and watch a puppet show, magic show, kids singing, etc. There was even a bounce house at the end that the kids played in.

Friday morning we went to iHop for breakfast to have “Scary Face Pancakes”.

Then after breakfast, we headed out to the KC Pumpkin Patch.

Even did the Corn Maze while we were there. It was fun, but we definitely didn’t go in order. I think we hit number 7, 8, 3 and 2. Guess that’s what you get when you let a 3 year old and a Silly Grandma lead the way!!!

Friday night, Mom and I headed to the winery for their “Hallowine” party. I won some tickets on Facebook to attend, and we decided we should go!! Mom was dancing in the parking lot!!!

Saturday was spent more laid back. Mom watched the kids while Rick and I went to lunch and the movie “Courageous”. After the movie, Mom and I hit Costco for a little shopping, but I think that’s about it.

Sunday morning we went to the zoo for “Boo at the Zoo”. We left Rick and Faith at home and we ended up spending ALL day there!!!! We did see a few animals, but it was mainly about getting candy, riding the train, the tram, the sky safari, the carousal, and the playground!!

I babysit our neighbors baby about three times a week, and Monday was one of those days, so it was spent at home. I can’t remember what we all did, but I remember it being nice outside!

Monday night was trick or treating!!!!! We had a GREAT time!!!

Tuesday morning I had to do books, so I left before Mom. She stayed a little longer to watch the kids while Rick got a little work done. I’m glad that she stayed as long as she did, but I wish she could have stayed longer!!! It was very nice having her here!!! Thanks for everything Mom!!!! You’re the best!!!!

(If this post does’t make sense, it’s because I’ve been working on it for a couple of days!!! Hopefully you get the drift!)

Not sure if you’ve seen the video of the Honey Badger on YouTube…it’s not really a kid friendly video…so you were warned! But if you watch this, you will understand why she is known as “The Honey Badger”.

Here’s some pictures, to prove my point….

I swear she actually knows that if she makes one mess, I will need to clean that up, so she can go do something else! Here’s one example of a morning about a week and a half ago…

She found the bubble bath inside a basket and proceeded to dump it out on my bed. It leaked thru the comforter onto the sheets. Rick was home during the time, so while I was taking apart the bed, he climbed into the shower with the comforter to try to wash all the bubble bath out. In the meantime, Faith found a glass of water that she dumped out and also found Noah’s box of legos (that he just cleaned up) and dumped them all out. This was all after she cleaned out my nightstand and had little sticky notes all over too. And this was just part of a morning. No wonder I’m tired!!!

She really is a honey badger…she doesn’t give a s*#@!!!

We started the day out by sending “Angel Grandpa” some balloons to Heaven. We let five balloons go for the five years that he’s been gone. Noah had to watch the balloons the whole time until he couldn’t see them anymore. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky so we could see them for quite a while. Although the red balloon took a left turn and didn’t follow the other ones and the blue balloon blended into the sky, so we couldn’t see those two anymore.

After the balloons where gone, we went to DeAnna Rose Farmstead. This seems to be the tradition on this day. We got to see the cow getting milked and even got some ice cream (yes, at 9:30 in the morning!!).

I also had a friend bring me flowers…she picked out flowers that had sunflowers in it! I had told her before that whenever I see sunflowers, it reminds me of Dad…although he HATED sunflowers!!

When his friends all came, they played around for a little while and then I got them to do a train craft. Everyone had to trace their hand and part of their arm and then we cut them out to make the engine (the hand) and some freight cars (the arm). I had some foam stickers that they could use to put wheels, windows, funnels, sun, clouds and animals on their train. Also had some cotton balls for smoke. The kids were pretty crafty at their trains and did an awesome job! After everyone was done with their craft, they had to go back in the living room and look for a wooden train whistle that Rick had hid while they were busy. Then we played “Pin the Caboose on the Train”.

After the games, it was time for cake!!!!

Then of course, it was time for presents!!!!

After everyone went home, I asked Noah if he had a good time with his friends. His response…OH YEAH!!! Glad he had a great time!!!