Sneak Peak

Here's a sneak peak of what's to come on Halloween.

The costumes are not quite done but they boys couldn't resist trying them on after I had ironed on the logo.  In fact all three kids are sleeping in their unfinished costumes tonight.  Halloween here we come!

Kids Update

I have been a terrible blogger lately.  I've felt pretty nasty, had to teach preschool two times this week, have been horribly behind on cleaning my house, went to a party at the wrong time without a present, its just been one of those weeks.  Luckily Shawn is awesome and my friends are more than understanding.  Even with all the craziness that has been going on the kids have been great and pretty stinkin' hilarious.
Caroline recently finished a project for school on her favorite person; herself.  It was so fun to see her decorate her poster and think of all the things she wanted to share about herself.  I think its been my favorite project she's done because she actually did most the work.  She also lost another tooth and then dropped it in the grass about 10 minutes later she was so sad but decided to write the tooth fairy a letter.     It was the cutest thing I've ever read.  "Dear tooth fairy I lost my tooth for good and I was so sad.  I wanted to keep it but I lost it.  I was so excited when I lost my tooth.  I love you.  From Caroline Anne Funk"

Caroline and her Marvelous Me poster.

Devin is funny and has no idea.  The other day at around noon I asked him if he was hungry and he goes, "Mom I'm always hungry, I don't know why you always ask me that."  Well said. He also recently came downstairs and showed me that he had almost completed one side of a rubix cube Shawn's parents had given them.  When I asked him how he did it he said I just turned it and turned it and turned.
Graham is nuts.  I have to pull him off of Devin about once a day because they love to wrestle so much.  He really wants to be like Devin.  One night as I was walking in to give them baths I saw both boys with their feet on the wall of the tub hands on the edge and bare bums in the air.  Graham also hates wearing pants and wants to wear shorts everyday I usually get him to wear pants but when it warms up in the afternoon I let him change into shorts and he looks crazy.

See crazy right?  I never thought I would let my child go out like this but some fights just aren't worth it.

Its always fun when Grandma comes

I'm finally going to attempt and recall all the fun while my mom was here.  We started the fun in typical Reed style as I waited for my mom for an hour at the airport because she was at the departing flight entrance and I was at the arriving flights, she was literally one floor above me and I had no idea because her phone was dead.  Once we finally got her to our house we had a blast though.  

Our first day we headed over to the outlet malls and I had so much fun trying things on and not worrying if my kids were going to open the changing room door in the middle of me getting dressed.  Thanks for spoiling me mom.  Graham had a good time as well.

My mom bought Charlottes Web for Caroline and they read it every night.  She loved it as you can see from the picture and called my mom the night she left to continue to talk about the story.  

We also went to the zoo and looked a few animals but were more interested in playing at the playground.

Devin on the ropes, this is the kids favorite part of the playground.

Caroline posing for a quick picture.

Graham suprised me and was the first one to finish she ropes, he usually cries part of the way up.  I think he felt better holding my moms hand.

Playing at dragon park while waiting for Shawn to be able to come have lunch with us. 

And of course we had to make Halloween cookies.  

we had so much fun with my mom, we really wish we could see her more often.  Hopefully next time my dad can come and join in the fun.  Thanks again mom for taking care of me and the kids when I wasn't feeling well, putting up with my crazy kids, making me dinner and the million other things you did while you were here.

Fall Break

I think I mentioned this last year, but oh well, I love that Caroline has fall break!  She had school off starting on Friday and doesn't go back until next Monday.  Here are a few things we've done so far.

Caroline has been begging for about 6 months to go ride her bike around the "lake" by our house.  We finally did it on Friday and it was quite an adventure.

Graham was such a trooper and rode his purple tricycle the entire 2 miles.  It was fun to walk beside him and see how hard he tries to be like his older siblings.

We also took a little walk down by the river before realizing how muddy it was.  Graham was not excited about getting dirty, Devin couldn't have cared less about getting muddy and would have jumped in the river if I would have let him and Caroline was terrified the whole time we were going to get in trouble, it was hilarious.

Here we are on another little trial.  We didn't stay long because I would really love to have lived in Tennessee without having to pull tons of ticks off my children.

Caroline and Devin both had soccer games but I was a little frustrated with Devin not trying that I forgot to take pictures of him.  I know I'm terrible! Caroline played really well however and finally scored a goal!  She has been so close so many times this year and finally got one in.  I was so excited I jumped up and down and made a fool out of myself and probably embarrassed Shawn but I don't care.    

Go Caroline!

We also enjoyed listening to conference on Sunday and eating sticky buns all day.  It was heavenly until I got sick and threw all of it up that night.  I'm feeling fine now and ready to have more fun with my mom!  We can't wait to have her here and are going to have a blast. Hurray for fall break!

Nothing New

Well there's really nothing going on around here but as I"m trying to make it to my goal of 100 posts this year I thought I'd blog about something I was thinking about the other day.  I was looking at a cooking blog and the recipe they had up was something along the lines of, ganache filled banana cookie muffins, or some other ridiculous thing like that.  All I could think of is "what the crap is that?" and what ever happened to just good plain regular recipes?  Seriously I find them all over the place now like oreos inside chocolate chip cookies,  cake pops, cake in a mug, brownie cakes (no I didn't make that up) a chocolate chip brownie cake pie.  Ok so I made that last one up but I feel like people have moved away from finding traditional recipes that are fantastic to throwing a bunch of sugary treats together and thinking its such a great creation.  When I see stuff like that it kind of makes my teeth hurt, and keep in mind who I am and how much I love to bake.  If you can find a good cake recipe there is no need to add a brownie to it or fill it with cookie dough, I promise people will like it just as much with just some excellent frosting on top.  Am I the only one that doesn't like that stuff?

Hound Dog Run

Caroline's school had their annual fundraiser today.  Each child is supposed to go around collecting pledges for the school then they run for about 12 minutes on the day of the fundraiser ends in the Hound Dog Run.  And while we didn't go do to door because I think I made it pretty clear about how I feel about that stuff we did go run in the race with her and had a great time.  And we did support the school by buying popsicles after the race and I sponsored her myself so I'm not a total slacker as a parent.

Starting our on her first lap.  The boys and I joined her for the next one and then just me for the rest.  Devin tired out pretty quick.  I don't think running in PE will be his favorite thing next year.  Yet another thing we have in common.

Enjoying a well deserved popsicle afterwards.

Caroline with her teacher Miss Denkler.  She loves her teacher and going to school everyday which makes me very happy.

Cooling down after the race.  It was kind of funny when I was running with Caroline she would sprint for a while then walk then sprint then walk, very little jogging.  Is anyone else not surprised that she's 100% or nothing even with running?  I think I should have read her The Tortoise and the Hare more when she was at home.  Oh well it was fun to race her through the other kids and I'm embarrassed to say she beat me most of the time!