Mia's photo opp for her blessing day

My awesome friend Libby came over again to take pictures of Mia in her blessing dress. These pictures were taken November 3 and her blessing will be this Sunday the 7th.

Halloween

I love Halloween!
Thanks to my wonderful mom and all of her help. This year Taylor was a body parts sells man (he won a prize at the school parade for best costume), Ellie was a barbie doll, Matthew a lion and Mia was a beautiful flower who hated her hat.

Manzanita's Halloween Parade

Tradition-Making cookings at G-ma and Gpa's house

We love going over to Grandma and Grandpa Fife's house every year to make Halloween sugar cookies. We actually stepped up a notch this year and had a decorating contest. I believe Matthew won. YEA

Our Fabulous looking cookies

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

Halloween Party with Friends

My dear friend Tiffiani and her family had a wonderful Halloween party. The kids had a great time, food was excellent, company was entertaining and most of all creating awesome memories.

Courtney, Ellie, Katherine and Lorenza

Carving humungous pumpkins (home grown and smelled like cucumbers).

My Boys

Taylor is concentrating

Matthew is so proud of his pumpkin. He worked on it all night, and chiseled the pumpkin away practically!

Bobbing for apples. Taylor and Ellie both were able to bob their apple and earned a dollar (thanks menths). We believe Matthew did also, so he says.

The kids went outside in the garage for about in hour and made a haunted house for the adults. It was awesome, they were so creative and scary.

September 27, 2010 Mia is 3 weeks old

My dear friend Libby Tolman took these awesome pictures of Mia on September 27, 2010 (Mia is almost 3 weeks old). Libby was here all morning and Mia was good for about 5 minutes of it. I love the pictures she was able to take while she wasn't crying or peeing all over Libby's props. I am so lucky to have such a great friend and even more luckier to have a beautiful healthy baby girl.

This is how Mia was through most of the photo shoot.

Mia..one week old

My little Mia.....what a sweetie. She sleeps a lot. I have had to wake her up and feed her because she doesn't wake up. Today Matthew said to me...Mommy she smiled at me. We had a doctor's appointment today and Mia weighed 7 lbs 11oz. Not quite up to her birth weight but we are working on it. We have to go back in a few days to check her weight. She is so fragile and we all love her so much.

Mia barely fits into her new born clothes. They are swimming on her.

Ellie's Eye

My poor little Ellie got 5 stitches right below her eye brow. Ellie was playing golf in P.E. on September 9th and was standing a little to close to the boy in front of her that was supposed to be putting the golf ball and instead he swung and she got hit. It was horrible. I am a stay at home mom and the one time my daughter needs me I wasn't there. The school called the house phone and the cell phone and I didn't answer because I was hooked up to a stress test at my OBGYN appt. My due date is in 6 days. I called Grant as soon as I got the message on my cell phone and he immediately got off work and met my mom and Ellie at the Gridley hospital. I was so sad I wasn't able to be there but she had Grant and my mom.

Pictures of Ellie right after they took the stiches off.

Ellie was so strong and did well while the Doctor put the stiches in. Hopefully the scar will not be noticed in a few months