Johnny Appleseed Day

We had our annual Johnny Appleseed day with the Thomsons.

We had some great food (all involving apples) and some fun games.

Trying to get the gummy worms out of the apples:

Bobbing for apples:

I like Hailey's way of doing it :)

Eating dinner watching Johnny Appleseed

Letter from Kimberly

Aunt Kimberly sent the kids a letter in the mail, with box tops for Aliyah!

The kids were excited to get a letter, so I took a picture of the girls holding the letter to send to Kimberly, but then Packer wanted to get in on the picture too.  So I ended up with a bunch of cute pictures of the kids!

Thanks Kimberly!

Yummy times

Here are some pictures of some yummy times!

Aliyah has done really well with her reading minutes so her school teacher gave her a "free meal" at Applebees.  She was so excited about it!

I was craving bean dip and chips.  Packer and Hailey joined me for my craving and we just sat on the floor eating chips and dip!   Such cuties!

Aunt Kimberly brought us over some cupcakes.  The kids were being so cute enjoying them :)

We took the kids to Rumbi's one evening for dinner and decided we would love to go back to Hawaii!

Decorations

The kids love helping me decorate for Holidays.  They love decorating for any occasion.

Here are some of their own creative decorating for autumn/Thanksgiving time.  I was amazed at their details!

Playing

Here are a few pictures of the kids playing

Playing with his food

Packer playing cars in my shoes.  Funny boy!

Packer wanted to wear panties like his sister.

He and Hailey have been buds since Aliyah started Kindergarten.  He wants to follow her around and do whatever she is doing.  

Their favorite thing to do lately is find things to stand on to climb and jump off.  (Not my favorite activity for them to be doing! But you can see their determination to do this.)

Hailey and Packer playing legos

Some cute pictures of Packer

The kids were playing so cute together outside! I love how they all get along so well!

My favorite picture of the kids together!!  So cute!

They love building huts and "boats" to play in.

It was a windy day, so the girls wanted to fly "kites" (plastic grocery bags with a string attached).  They had a great time!

Asleep

I guess Packer was tired!  He was playing in his room and then things got quiet.  This is what I found when I checked on him.  So cute!

Sweet Hailey Mae

Packer is now in Nursery with Hailey.  One of the nursery workers sent these pictures to us of Hailey comforting Packer when he was sad in nursery.  

These pictures are so sweet!  Just melts my heart.  I'm grateful for Hailey's sweetness and kindness to her brother and I'm grateful that Packer knew he could come to her for comfort.