Home at last

Kinley was born October 29th 2004. She was 3 1/2 weeks early. She weighed 4 pound 6 oz and was 18 inches long. We brought her home at 4 pounds 2 oz. She was tiny. She has always had a spirited attitude. I have always called her my little 'spit fire'. Happy Birthday my sweet baby girl!

We took this picture to remind us that she was as big as a small baby doll.

This is her now. She is so beautiful, so big, so talented, so smart, so tough.

We had doughnuts for birthday cake.

*SAY CHEESE*

We had such a great day. Kinley loved her presents. She got a kitchen, dishes, and a cash register.

I cant believe how fast the time went by....

Stop two...Corn Belly's

Since we were down south we thought we would stop off at Thanksgiving point to see what was going on there. Right by Thanksgiving point, we saw a sign for Cornbelly's. We thought it was just a corn maze and decided to go. Once we got in...we were surprised to see all the activities they had there. We did the corn maze, the kids had a ball!
They also had a lot of different rides. There was a corn maze, the haunted creature, slides, hayrides, cow train, jumping pillows, a kiddie corral (a toddler play area), and spider web towers...to name a few.

The kids had a blast! We spent 3 hours there, and they would have spent 3 more if we had the time!

They had two different jumping pillows. One for the toddlers, one for the bigger kids. They were the coolest things...a dome shaped jumping house type thing. Kinley wouldn't go at first, but once Kaden got her up there, it was hard to get her down!

Kaden and Hailey ran up there with no fear and started jumping away!! it was a blast!

This is the spider web tower. It is basically a bunch of huge rubber bands that went up 4 or 5 layers high. Kaden almost made it to the top. (they only had 4 minutes).

This is 3/4 a picture of the haunted creature. Kaden, Kinley and I made it to the entrance. Thomas and Hailey made it to the first emergency exit.

We had a great time celebrating Kinley's Birthday!

Happy Birthday Kinley...First Stop...Gardner Village.

Thomas took the day off!! wahooo!! We thought it would be fun to stop and see the witches at Gardner Village. The kids loved looking at them, and they had plenty of photo shoots set up for us mom's that gotta blog :) Kaden has two cold sores, so it was hard for him to smile, but he did the best he could!
They had a lot of little shops and lots of places to grab some grub...but we just checked out the witches. It look like a bunch of fun little shops that you could spend hours in...if you had no kids!!

ON TO THE NEXT STOP!!

Zaugg Halloween party!!

Pumpkin Walk

Our city has an annual pumpkin walk. They have church groups, school groups, families, whoever will volunteer to carve pumpkins...carve! There were over 1500 this year. Some of them are pre-school aged (that is how we found out about it...When Hailey was in Pre-school they gave them all a pumpkin and we carved it!) but some really get into a lot of detail! I am always amazed at how well they look!

We hit the pumpkin walk after going to the schools fall festival. The kids were having a ball, even though it was a school night!

Kinley would be so excited and yell out what the pumpkins were carved as. Kaden loved the ones that had a star wars theme, and Hailey loved the cat ones! We had a great day....no complaints once bedtime came. I don't think anyone even moved once their heads hit the pillow...I love nights like that!

Pre-Birthday and Pre-Halloween

Dennis and Karen came into town for some doctor visits and spent the night with us. We thought it would be fun to celebrate Kinley's 3rd Birthday with them (gotta have the pictures for my new found hobby :) )


I ask Kinley what she would like for her birthday and I get the reply PINK. She fell in love with a kitchen set at the toy store, but I guess we will see what she gets when her birthday comes!!




























The kids love when "oldma" and "oldpa" come because they love to read with them! I think the kids would have them read all night if they could get them to do it!























Karen thought it would be fun to make Jack-o-lantern pizza's with the kids. They had a lot of fun man-handling their pizzas. They had a great visit with their grand-parents.

Hailey, my tumbling fool!

Hailey started taking tumbling in the spring. She knew how to do a cartwheel, forward rolls, and go up on her hands into a handstand.

She can now do back whips, back tucks, front flips, seven back handsprings in a row. I am so proud of her and how hard she has worked to get as far as she has come. Hailey is now upside down more then standing. It isn't uncommon to get kicked in the face if you are walking behind her because she is kicking up onto her hands to walk on her hands instead of her feet!! I love that she loves tumbling as much as I did when I was younger.
This is her doing a back tuck on the tramp.

This is a whip on the tramp.