Caroline LOVES being the big sister (most of the time), especially when she gets to have Molly come hang out on her bed and read her books.







This little clip is of Caroline reading to Molly :)

Pumpkins

Between leaving my camera with my sister on halloween and our computer having coffee spilt all over it and not working, its been a long while since I have put some pictures up. Molly is now 3 months old (where has all the time gone) and Caroline and Nicholas keep growing like weeds. We had a fun October, especially when it came time for pumpkins and halloween.



Out at the pumpkin patch with Nana and Papa




the start of trick or treating down in the harbor





The pumpkins we carved with Michele (a friend of mine from WSU)





Before we started on the pumpkins


Pumpkin #1



Pumpkin #2



One group pic before we head out. The twins were peas in pods :)


I tried to put a clip of caroline carving pumpkins but it was too big, so here is a small clip of the kids singing in the back of the car when we were down in Palm Springs.

Go Steelers!!

Caroline enjoying a LARGE pretzel... mmmm


We are big Steeler fans around here so the kids got all dressed up today to root them on versus the Seahawks. It was hard to watch and figure out who to root for, but the Steelers ultimately were the team and beat the Seahawks 21-0.

Palm Springs

Last Thursday night on a whim, the kids and I decided to head down to Palm Springs on Saturday morning with Becky and the boys for the week. On Monday, Chris, Kendra, Courtney and the girls made their way down to join us. The weather was great and the pool was warm. The kids had a wonderful time playing in the pool. By Friday they were worn out and missed Daddy and were ready to come home. I'm sure many of you are thinking "was she crazy to get on a plane with three kids by herself?" and the answer is YES, but it was well worth the risk and the kids did 10x better than I ever would have expected, especially on the way home. They are total troopers!

Nicholas and Brady playing in the pool.



Nicholas and Molly lounging in the shade


Caroline and Mattie hamming it up in the pool.


All the kids relaxing watching a movie


Kendra and Emma taking a nap poolside

Molly and Madi lounging away

Madi taking another nap in the shade


Caroline being the big sister and loving on her little Molly

Enjoying an evening at the Cheesecake Factory

In the morning the Mallard Ducks were everywhere, so we had to feed them. The kids love it, but their favorite part was chasing them away.

Football Weekend

Two weekends ago, Courtney and Kendra, Madeline and Emma came down for the Seahawks game. The kids were all in thier outfits so we had to take lots of pictures!

Caroline loves to help out any chance she gets. She especially loves to give the babies bottles. This is Emma (i think)



Nana and her Karhan girls


Go Seahawks!


Nana and all her grand-baby girls


Auntie Kendra and Molly


Molly, Madeline and Emma making their first cheerleading pyramid. Go Team!


Kendra and the girls


Madeline, Molly, Emma

first day of school

Just a little late at getting these out. The second week of september was the first week of preschool for Caroline. This is her second year and she is going 3 mornings a week. She loves it. Nicholas is in a Mom's morning out program at the same church as Caroline's preschool so he thinks on Mondays that he gets to go to preschool too.

Molly (far right) and her cousins, Madeline (left) and Emma (middle).



Auntie Kendra moved home from Chicago! YEAH!!!!! It's been great seeing her and having her close.



SIX WEEKS! Where has all the time gone? Molly is doing great, the other two are working on coming to terms with the fact that she's here and not leaving. But, all in all she's been fun and Caroline and Nicholas are doing okay.

A couple weekends ago, Grandma SuSu and Grandpa Tim came for a visit from Alabama. They stayed with us for a couple days before heading off on a trip down Hwy 101 to California and fly home from LA. It was fun to hang out with them and they even stopped by Seaside, OR for a night and said hi to us on their way out of town. It was a nice suprise for the kids.

Grandma SuSu has a great camera and was nice enough to let Caroline play with it. She took some great pictures and we think we know what she's going to be when she grows up :)

After they left we went to Seaside, OR for a few days. We had a blast. On the way down we stopped in Portland and saw our friends and they followed us out to the ocean for the afternoon. Caroline loved every part of the trip, Nicholas did not quite feel the same way about the ocean. He was much happier in the pool.