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So many updates

Warning! There will be lots of pictures to follow. I figured I might as well make this one long post instead of several small ones.

We had a harvest festival at Courtney's preschool (Whittier Christian). The following pics were from that.

Shauna and I

The family dressed up for the pic.

Some of Courtney's friends from school. We found out her best friend from school (Charis) will be moving out of country. Her family is becoming a missionary family. Courtney, Sami, Charis, and Kaitlyn


This one is from school on the harvest party day.

Ms. Taylor at the Harvest Family night.

Saturday night the 11th we went to Corona to see Susie and Adam one last time before they go home to Colorado. We met at Tom's Farms.

Isn't this starting a little young? Courtney and Zachary sitting by themselves behind the tree.

We went to the park on the 14th with Randi, Madi, Joshua, my mom, Court and Sky. The kids had so much fun. This is not a very well known park. There was no one there for a while, then only like 2 other kids later.

Madi and Court playing on the playground.

All of the kids on the tire swing. (Yes, there is a little lake in the background.)

I kept trying to get this shot. Courtney flying in the air on that swing.

CHEESE!!!

Having a picnic at the park.

The girls also learned how to fly a kite too. They both did a great job.

On the 18th we went to Allie, Matt, Emma, and Daylen's Halloween party. The kids loved playing in the bouncer in the garage and all of the play stuff too. And of course sneaking lots of candy upstairs.

This year Courtney is Jasmine and Skyler is a Pirate.

Love this picture of Matt and Allie. It was so great to hang out with my bud.

Several of the kids posing for a picture on the stairs. Funny face pic.

On the 20th we had a very exciting day. First of all, Courtney had her second audition. This one was for a Hasbro commercial. There were a bunch of kids at this one. But still was a very fast experience. Once we got registered on their computer with their casting place we were called right away and left about 5 minutes later. lol She said she did everything they told her to do. She had to say her name and age. She had to hold a doll and pretend that the doll was sick. Then she had to say that it was all better. Then she had to pretend she was surprised. When she was telling us this it was so hilarious. She shows us her surprised face (which was very good), then she says, "And here is another one." Then she proceeds to show us a different surprised face (also good). It was soooo funny. We were laughing so hard. Like, see, I know how to do it, mom. And here is another way to do it. lol

Then we got home just as Scott was getting home from work so we ate dinner and left for Disneyland. We were meeting the Guthries there. AKA...all of the best friends. Jack and Skyler call each other best friends now. And Kate and Courtney are best buds too. It's so cute because they were Skyler and Jack's age when they became best friends too. So adorable. Anyway, after a while of trying to find them among the midst of the millions watching the parade, we finally found them. We had a great time.

Now starts our camping trip. At 4 AM on Wednesday morning we were picked up to head up to Antioch, CA. We were heading up to Doug and Jody's house (cousins) to stay for a couple days for Jamie's wedding.

Wednesday night we went over to Jim and Georgia's (cousins) house for dinner. This is Katie and the girls. They love their cousin Katie.

This is at the wedding on Thursday the 23rd. Jamie and Kory were married in the mountains. It was beautiful scenery.

The kids waiting for the wedding to start.

The girls from the bridal party. The bride and the 2 on the bride's left are my cousins. (Jamie, Summer, and Christy)

In hindsight not the best one to pick, but this was their first dance.

So sweet. During the father daughter dance Jamie danced with her father (Doug) and Kory danced with his daughter Hannah.

The next day we went to Jamie's house to return her car (I got to drive it there.) and see her beautiful new house. It was amazing. Then we drove to the campgrounds. The next day we went to the apple farms to check them out. So many kids, so many things to do. Ok, so I realized I don't know one of the names of the kids. Oh well.

Kailyn, ____, Eric, Kade (Kaden), Hannah, Katie, Courtney, and Skyler

The kids got to ride on horses. Courtney got to ride one of the big ones. She was so excited to ride a horse.

Skyler got to ride a pony and I had to go around with her. She liked it too and held on so well. She was almost falling off of it though. I'm glad they had me go with her.

All of the kids loved the play room at Doug and Jody's house. They were watching a movie.

Courtney trying on Hannah's flower girl dress. It fit her perfect. Ok, now take it off.

On Saturday we had all of the kids try on random costumes so we could do a trick or treating with them. We thought they were doing it camp wide, so we all bought candy for it. But turns out they weren't doing it. So, we just did our own. The kids went around the campfire saying trick or treat to all of the adults.

Courtney picked Ariel and Skyler picked Jasmine

Some of the costumes

The next day we had a small baby shower for Joey and Liz. They figured since we all were going to be up there that we might as well take the opportunity to do it. Joey is my cousin (Jamie's brother) It was a nice surprise that Jamie and Kory came camping with us too after their wedding. I thought they would be immediately leaving for their honeymoon, but they weren't leaving until Tuesday so decided to go camping with us all. It was so fun.

So, we're home now and I'm so glad. Because we went further away to camp it made our drive home be even longer. We were driving practically all day on Sunday. But we finally got home.

One other thing. Courtney's performance for her school is NOT going to be the same day as Candlelight. WOHO!!! I'm so excited. It's going to be on Friday December 5th at 7pm at First Love Calvary Chapel in Uptown Whittier.

Wow, that was huge. Serves me right for waiting so long to blog.

Soccer Girl

A cute video for you to watch. We were playing soccer outside just kicking the ball back and forth. Then Skyler just starts dribbling the ball all around the yard. We were shocked. No one showed her how to do this. She's 2! It's crazy. She really has a natural physical ability for soccer. Well, for many sports actually. Then Courtney learned how to kick a ball as it was coming to her (while running to it to kick). I was proud. She is also learning how to drop kick a ball too.

Candlelight

We made it!!!!!!!!!!!!! David's going to get the exact stats for this year, but he says that usually about 220 choirs try out for it and only about 20 make it. I'm so excited.

Don't Marry Uncle Adam. He Stinks.

Yes, that's one of the lessons the kids have learned since Susie and Adam came down from Colorado. Courtney felt a little bad for Aunt Susie, because she said it was too late for her. She already married him. lol We have had a great time spending time with them. We got to be in on the surprise that they were coming early. It was fun to hear their parent's reactions that they were here early. Unfortunately, that meant that they weren't exactly ready, though, so we all helped with the cleaning process for the shower the next day. The baby shower went well. It was lots of fun. Then they came over Monday and we all played Wii for a while in the morning. The girls got to hang out with them a little bit. Then we went back over to Linda and Dave's (my in laws) for dinner. Scott and Susie's Grandma and Uncle were there too. So fun having them here. Now they're at the Shoemaker's house until Sunday morning. We're hoping to see them one more time before they head back up to home.

Baby Shower Pictures

Skyler rolling the hula hoop around.

Courtney and Zachary jumping rope. She can do it 2 times in a row now.

Skyler and I at the shower

Scott and I at the shower

Susie and I

Courtney and I

Heidi and Susie

Heidi with her broken foot.

Beka and Susie
(Beka brought all of the beautiful balloons.)

Kathy (Adam's Mom) and I

My Aunt Maureen and Mom

Monica and I..this one looks a little funny cuz I was trying to sharpen a very blurry picture.

The kids in Linda and Dave's bedroom hanging out and watching a mini DVD player.

Amy and I

It was so fun because Monica, Amy and I kept passing the ribbons back and forth to each other when we caught the other saying one of the words we weren't supposed to say. Monica ended up the winner.

The huge line of towels and clothes and things for Susie from Hilary.

Shauna and I

Sky rolling the hula hoop again.

The day after

Courtney, Me, Skyler, Scott, Grandma, Uncle Bob

Susie and Adam with Grandma and Uncle Bob

Susie and Courtney

Susie and Skyler

Susie and her neices

Harvest Week

This week is Harvest week at school and they all are encouraged to dress up like farmers, cowgirls/boys or scarecrows. She actually wore the scarf all day at school. Very surprising since she wanted to take it off before we even got to school. They had a Harvest party today too.

Skyler wanted her hair like Courtney's so I did double french braids for both of them this morning.