On Friday night we had the JRC Halloween Chilli/Soup Cook off. It was a lot of fun. The kids all dressed up in their costumes and were so cute. Some of the adults dressed up as well. We had a great turn out. Here are some pictures of the fun activities we did. (Yesterday we went to Boo at the Zoo. I will get those pics up soon.)
We did a donut eating contest. I was close to coming in first but Rachel beat me to it.
Being that I am from Canada and it is Thanksgiving in Canada today I thought that we should kind of celebrate it at our house tonight. It was so good if I do say so myself. This is the first 'bird" I have ever cooked and it turned out moist and yummy! All I did was stab a few lemons and shove them in and then made a wonderful herb rub for the top and baked it. Mmmmm! For dessert we had chocolate mouse pie. What a great meal and great excuse to make a wonderful dinner. Thanks Canada for celebrating Thanksgiving early so that we could do. Enjoy the pics but please for the sake of your computer try not to drool to much.
No we did not fall off the face of the earth. We are still holding on by a little bit. Blake's computer died so he sent it in and that means that he has to take my computer so I get about 10 minutes to check my e-mail and stuff. So as soon as I get to use it again I will post pics of the Pumpkin Patch and other fun things we have been doing.
When Blake and I were getting ready to move to Kansas I was really worried that we would not have any friends. We have great friends back in Idaho and were really sad to leave them. Well much to our surprise we have got some amazing friends out here. In a way they have become like family. Last Monday I was having a hard day and so my friend Sally showed up on Tuesday with this wonderful cupcake. It is from a cupcake place here named Daddy Cakes. Let me just tell you that it was absolutely sinful. I was very touched by her thoughtfulness. We are so blessed out here to have found as great of friends as we have back in Idaho.
Oh no here goes the neighborhood. Rylee has known for awhile now how to climb out of her crib but was really good to stay in it. Until recently. She has started climbing out about 6 times a night so I finally relented and took her crib down so that she wouldn't hurt herself. So she is now in a big girl bed. She still gets out a lot but at least she won't hurt herself by doing it.
I came across this video yesterday while I was looking at a friends blog and wanted to post it here. I had never heard of this organization before but it is an amazing thing that they are doing. I wanted to get the word out that this organization exists and thought that if you know anyone that goes through losing their child you could suggest this to them. I am so grateful that we have so many pictures of Keagan. It is the only thing that we will ever have of him. Anyways I will put a disclaimer that this video tugs on the heart strings. I cried when I saw it so if you don't think you are strong enough please don't watch it. Just know that there is an organization called Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep that will come to the hospital and take pictures of a baby that was still born or that is not expected to live very long. They are all volunteers and so it is free to the family.
If you would like more information or to find a photographer in your area or even if you would like to donate some money to this wonderful organization please go to www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org
Her backpack is rather large but we couldn't find anything smaller, plud we figured she could use it next year as well.
Of course when I told Paige to get her backpack on Rylee had to get hers too. She is so cute when it comes to this. She gets sad when Paige has to leave so I usually take her over to the park for a while after we get Paige on the bus. Well the first day she kept asking where her bus is. And when she gets up from her nap, as soon as I walk in there, she says she wants her Paigee. They are such great friends.
Paige comes up to me this morning and asks if I will get her a drink. I said "sure hunny". She gets this big grin on her face gives me a hug and says "thanks mom I knew I could count on you!!!" I absolutely love this little girl.
We went to Science world before we went to the aquarium and had a blast. It is right on the water front. It is a huge dome shaped place that is entirely devoted to kids. It is all hands on and they have some really neat things.
This was my favorite thing. It is a water table thing that the kids can put the balls into a vacuum thing and shoot them to the top. They then come down through a series of things. You could also take your ball up the stairs and drop it from up high and watch them come down.
We went to a little Alphabet movie that I thought would be great for Rylee, it ended up being the corniest movie I have ever seen. They had totally random things for the letters and it was just dumb!
Paige had a blast with all the fun things to explore. She got a taste of what life would be like if she had been a sextuplet.
There was this one illusion that you had to try to grab the apple. Well Rylee was not content to just sit there and try she was going to go get that apple and ran right into the glass. I felt kinda bad for her cause she hit hard, but it was quite funny.
The next day we headed to the Vancouver Aquarium. They had recently had a baby beluga whale born and we got to go down and see it. That was Paige's favorite part of the whole trip. We also got to see these really cool Jelly Fish. They had a display of them that went all the way from the egg stage to the big stage. It was really neat.
