SNOW

Yes, that is right. SNOW! I know the picture is bad. But Tori was insistent on taking a picture of it. She could not believe it would snow in the fall. With the wind it looked like a blizzard in the sky. We had 50 mph winds today.
Now we cross our fingers it does not do this again untill at least Nov. 15th.

Birthdays

We have had so many birthday's in the last month: Makala, Nicole, Roger, Casey, Mel, Jacquie, Me, and Malorie. We are almost done for a few weeks.

We celebrated my 32nd in Aledo, I had class. Mom, and Dad treated me to a lunch and tori made me pumpkin bars.
When we got home sunday Kurt, Tori, and Alli threw me a party. After dinner we had cake, and they even made party hats.

Diva show

Here is the video of the diva's singing their birthday songs.
They actually went out in the mall to do this.

Girls just wanna have fun!

Our only boys Casey, Kurt and Max and you can see how much fun he is having.

Jacquie is 3. we had our cousins b-day party at Club Libby Lu. The girls really got the princess treatment. They picked out matching Hannah Montana dresses.

They learned a birthday dance to do out in the mall.

Tori with her rockin' hair and headphones. What a rock star!

We took the train to Naperville. This was Makala and Allison's first train ride. They did not sit still the whole way.

We then went out for pizza. We also had a slumber party to end the night.

What fun!!!!!!

Thanks for the wonderful party Jacquie.

Tagged....

Here are the rules. 1. Link to the person that tagged you. Alyssa; http://jakobandalyssa.blogspot.com/
2. Mention the rules.
3. Tell six (6) quirky, yet boring and unspectacular details about yourself.
4. Tag other bloggers by linking to them. Im going to tag 4 people....you can do however many you choose.
5. Go to each person's blog and leave them a comment so they know they've been tagged.

1. I have an OCD compulsion with numbers on such things as tv or stereo volume. the number must be left on even, sometimes 5 is okay.
2. M&M's need to be eaten in the correct order by color. Brown, Yellow, Orange, Red, Blue, and Green.
3. I love Harry Potter books and movies.
4. I balance my checkbook every few days. (to the penny)
5. I have seen the movie "Top Gun" well over 100 times.
6. I feel like I am 70 years some days now because of my recent (3 months) back problems.

I can only tag laura (my only friend with a blog that has not already been tagged)
you can see her link from my page.

Have a good day.

Pumpkins Patch

Okay so we went to the pumpkin patch today, we had a blast, the disappointing part was that I had taken my battery out of my camera to charge and opps, forgot to put it back in. OH MAN was I upset.
Anyway we had fun. Alli loved watching the chickens, geese, ducks, and turkeys eat their breakfast. We went through a corn maze, jumped in a bouncy house, went down the slide a dozen times, went on a hayride (with no hay), saw the pumpkinator(shot them hundreds of feet), and each picked out our own pumpkin.
Wish I had something to show you.
I will at least get pics of the carving of our pumpkins.

Update on Jenni: going crazy trying to write my research paper. (Review of Literature, methodology, APA style OH MY!!!!) Only 5 more weeks.

tori: tomorrow is F day at school. She is taking a Fairy doll.

Alli: new thing is dragging you by your hand everywhere she wants to go.

Backbone State Park

So today we went to Backbone State Park about an hour from here. What a wonderful hidden treasure. We hiked, yeah with a 1 and 4 year old. They did great. Kurt and I had to carry them for a little while. The two trails we did had to be done on foot, one was very rocky, and the other hilly. Wonderful views and a beautiful day.

This was at the look out point.

THE CAVE: we told tori there was a cave, and we thought we were going to have a huge dissapoinment, because we could not find it untill we were about ready to leave. At first sight she said no way I'm not going in there, there are bats in there. This lady (in the photo) come on I'm going and Tori just followed. this is all the farther you could go without a flashlight. A guy with a flashlight said the further you go you can stand straight up and go a long ways.
This was definitly Tori's highlight of the day.
Alli and I even went in, a little.

Fire Station

Fire safety week: Tori's school took a field-trip to the Fire Station. The coolest part was the ride from school to there in an ambulance. Then they had a talk about the ambulance and fire station. A fireman suited all up with mask and tank and showed them not to be scared, tori was the only one who wouldn't even give him a high-five. We need to talk more i guess. She did make Kurt go test the fire-alarm in our house.

Aledo Homecoming

Last week was Aledo Homecoming and we got to be in the parade.

Papa/Dad/Owner of AAA Pest Control entered the golf cart in the parade. Nana and Grandma Schrock rode in the cart with all 4 girls. Check out the adorable matching ladybug tee-shirts, I MADE THEM. Dad, Mel and I walked and passed out ALOT of candy, I thing something like 60 pounds. That night Travis and I took the girls to the game. Tori loved the half-time show, band, and fireworks were awesome. Tori and Malorie liked the fire baton girls best.

The last picture is homemade pizza making. This is a tradition at Nana and Papa's house. This night we were celebrating Aunt Mel's B-day. Happy Birthday sis, 29 you are sooo old!). The girls help Papa put on all the toppings. Alli even joined in this time, she ate quite a bit and put a little on the pizza.