Happy Birthday Austin!

Austin is officially 7!  How can that be??

We celebrated and partied all day!  Well, except for while the kids were at school.  He wanted a Halloween party theme.  We started with our healthy awesome start to the day with breakfast cereal.  His choices this year: Sprinkled Donut Crunch, Star Wars with Marshmallows, and Cookie Crisp.

After school we wasted no time getting going with his party.  He planned a busy day for us! First we opened presents.The lucky boy got so many awesome things, including a new scooter.

We sang happy birthday and had cake and ice cream.

Then we went to Classic.  He had been wanting to go for his birthday, and I decided to give it a go.  None of the kids had ever tried roller blading or rollerskating, so we had fun letting them learn. There were a lot of falls, but nothing to bad. We also put our scooters to great use.

We also played in the bounce houses and the ball blast zone.  We seriously partied it up and had so much fun!

Austin at 7:

loves art

isn't afraid to be himself

loves to wear a biking glove everywhere

is an awesome big brother

getting to be a great reader

just started to learn to play the piano

loves to play outside

enjoying playing soccer

is a great problem solver

is often the first to volunteer to help 

looks for ways to help people

has a great singing voice and ear for pitch

Happy Birthday Awesome Austin, we are glad you're in our family!

September

September was spend enjoying the change that school brings.  The days are quieter having just the girls in the morning, and just Ashlyn in the early afternoon.  Its been fun to spend some time with them and take them to do things I haven't done as much with them like I did the older kids.  

We had a great family BBQ with the Gibson family. Its always fun when the family gets together.  We celebrated birthdays, too.

Austin, Lauren, and Jayden had fun playing soccer this fall.  These pictures are of Lauren's team.

Mom Gibson felt well enough to go to Gardner Village to celebrate Amy's birthday.  She is on the up and up.  She walked around some, and then we used the wheelchair for the rest of the time.  It is so good to see her perking up and doing so well! We saw this cute little alpaca and they let us take a picture with him.

Ashlyn loves anything beautiful.  She made her helmet so beautiful here.

Lauren has been saving her money for a very long time (almost a year) to buy this bunny she had seen at the Museum of Natural Curiosity.  She finally had enough money and she bought it!  She was so excited.  Its name is Marshmallow.