A Change of Pace

  Well we are officially under contract to sell our house and to buy a new one.  After a year of waiting I'm so excited to finally be here!  I'm glad that it happened now though, it gave Ash time to make friends at school so that when we do move he'll have that constant.  I know he's going to miss his friends from here a lot.  He's already been asking about play-dates, and how far we're going to live away from this friend and that one.
  If all goes well we should close on the 16th of December.  I'm also feeling overwhelmed with all the to-dos to be ready to move.  As much as I love change it takes me a bit to prepare mentally/emotionally for it so I'm glad to have a month to be ready.  We will miss our neighborhood and ward, the only place I've ever lived this long was in Rose Park, so I feel like we established some roots being here 6 years.  I'll also miss sharing a ward house with my best friend - it's pretty awesome that we ended up living so close... we'll just have to have more lunch dates!
   

Fancy Nancy 

Family Addition

Aaron decided to surprise everyone for his birthday:

The kids were so excited!  We've named her Harley - and I'm sure we'll be putting up more pictures soon.

Reid Family Fun

My sister's family is in town visiting, we've had a lot of family activities to spend time together.  Here's a photo story board of it all:

The whole gang minus Chris.

The grands.  Reagan was sooo excited to wear matching outfits with CC.  She kept saying over and over "CC wear princess too?"  Oli and Hudson were too fun together - we can see future mischievousness! 

Sending birthday wishes to Uncle Chris...

 All the dad's and me went surfing at the flow rider - the kids had fun hanging out and watching.

After we had yummy dinner at Costa Vida.

Girls lunch at sushi - we had a blast - no kids!

All the cousins ready to trick or treat!

First Haircut

I took Reagan to get her first haircut on Sept. 10, 2011 - she was so good to just sit there and let the lady work.  Of course she had to have the pink car!

Frightmares

Ashton and I had our annual trip to Frightmares at Lagoon this weekend.  He was so brave!  He is now tall enough for the big rides, so we hit the rickety old white roller coaster first thing.  I remember my first ride on a similar coaster at the Puyallup WA fair, it was freaky.  I wish I could have videoed the poor kids face.  The minute we went down that first hill he looked terrified!  He didn't make a sound the whole ride, he just clung onto the bar in front of him.  At the end I asked him if he was ok and if he wanted to go again, "I don't EVER want to do that again!"  He did however go on the Tidal Wave and big Swings.  They made me so sick, so I was out for any other circular rides - he went on them by himself instead!  It was funny to watch him cause he would look back behind him the whole time trying to see the other kids on the rides - too social :)

Some pics

 He finally got one - our freezer is now full of venision italian sausage - yum!

 "Look at my snowmobile!"

 I came across the concept of Smash books recently - so I decided to have the kids do one - hours of enjoyment at our house - no kidding!

Pajama party with Gram

 Serious attitude on that one...

 Loves to help in the kitchen - making this pizza dough.

 She was so tired of being sick - that is a clean bowl by the way, it has tomato sauce stains on it - ha ha.

 I wish I had gotten video of this kid playing with the lego guys - he did voices and everything!

 Lunch with mom.

 Bath time fun.

 She is still very much our princess.

 Three kids bear hug.

Our spaz.

Shutit

"I eat shutit mom!" also known as chocolate.

10, 9, 8... Blast Off

While I was cleaning out the car the twins were playing, "We on a space ship mom."

Backyard Campout

I can't believe I didn't post these pics in August...  this was all taken with my phone, sorry for the poor quality:  We never made it camping this summer so on August 12th "we" decided to campout in the backyard.  I made it till the actual sleeping in the tent part and Aaron gave up at one point and brought the computer out for a drive-in movie :)

We even had a deer in the back yard/field - you'll have to take my word for it, but it is a deer.

Popping popcorn on the fire...

Reagan and Olivia

I wanted to post this video of Reagan discussing the Olivia book with me.  She's so animated!

Oooh Rumor Has It

I've found Colten singing this over and over and over again many times!  I finally put it on video.

UP! House