My Super Amazing Grandma

                           Grandma We Love You

I just need to say that my Grandma McDonald is AMAZING.

She made this town that I remember playing with as a child. My siblings and cousins would each have a house and we would get cars and play that we were the people in the town. It was so much fun.  Grandma made us all our own towns last year.

This year we each got a train set! It has a candy car, a coal car, a candy cane car, and one that opens. I remember spending hours playing with these and now we have our very own.

Stacie is using it as her My little Pony town right now. She has ponies stuffed in all the train cars.

I love you Grandma and I am astounded by how talented you are!

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

Halloween

We were able to make it to Nampa to trick or treat with all of the Kelley cousins. We had 12 kids under the age of 10. We were asked multiple times if we were a daycare. Nope, just a ton of cousins :) Stacie was Rainbow Dash and Grant was a football player.

Grant made it to two houses before we realized that it was not a good idea to take him trick or treating. All he wanted to do was play in the leaves and then when we finally drug him to the door of the house he tried to walk right in. He got to go back and hand out candy with Uncle Dave and Daddy.

We had so much fun with all the cousins. I love Halloween!

The Things We Do

Cooking, Cooking, Cooking

I have been trying a lot of new recipes and after making 3 pumpkin pies in 2 weeks, I have found a great recipe. Making pies out of real pumpkin and not the can made me feel like a pro :) I tried making a chicken bake like the one's from Costco. It was good, but not as good as Costco. How I wish the nearest one was not over an hour away :( We went to a super fun ward activity at an apple orchard where they made fresh apple cider. We finished one gallon in 2 days!

Happy 6th Birthday To Stacie!

                   Stacie Turned 6 On September 28!

Happy Birthday to my beautiful daughter Stacie! From a 5 1/2 hour labor to now being 6 years old! Time has gone by so fast. We sure love you Stacie!

 She wanted a blue and pink cake for her birthday.



  My mom got Stacie these flashing light things and Grant LOVES them. He just wandered around the whole time playing with them.

 Yay, Stacie is finally 6! She loves my little pony and everyone spoiled her and got her so much stuff. Aunt Fran got her over 10 My Little Pony Things!

 Grant Just wandering around the room waving his lights.

  

 

 Stacie got excited and blew out the candles as soon as Daddy put the cake on the table. We were only halfway through the Happy Birthday song.

  We are so happy it is her birthday. We had driven the 2 hours to Redmond the night before so Stacie could play with her cousins on her birthday. Adam had to stay home because he was doing the big move for work, so we drove back home on her birthday to be with Daddy.

The Most Amazing Aunt Ever!

I was looking through some old pictures and came across this one that Adam's Aunt Vicki did for us. All of the kids dressed up as fairies and Cameron, being the only boy at the time, was the fairy catcher. At first we tried to get them to all sit in the picture at the same time. After 5 minutes of that we realized it was NOT working. So, Vicki took the pictures one by one and then photoshopped them all into it. It looks so good. What a wonderful picture for us to have. Thank You Vicki Shell you are amazing!

Grant Goes Down The Slide

Yay Stacie is going to go down the slide with me!

 

 Whoa, hey Stacie wait for me.

Hey, you left without me!

Ahh, Oh it's ok I got this, I can do it.

Whoa, whoa, I don't got this, ahhhhh.

 I'm ok, I'm ok.

 Yep, here I come.

 I made it!

Stacie's Bird Nest

We went to the park and Stacie started to collect sticks. She always collects sticks, rocks, acorns, leaves and pine cones. She wanted to make a birds nest out of the sticks. When we got home I got out the glue gun and we put together a nest. Stacie had me make a sign so the birds would know it was for them.

The sign says "Birds please come in and birds you will find some food"