UW game and Party

Our friends, Bart and Colleen Fullmer, gave us tickets to a UW game and my Dad being their biggest fan had to come with us! Bart works for the UW athletic department and it's so nice they share their tickets with us! They came over for the day and then spent the night because our Primary Program was the next day. It worked out great. The game was fun, but my Mom and I almost didn't go because of the weather. It was raining so hard and my Mom doesn't even really like football games, but I convinced her to go. We caught the bus at Northgate and rode to the stadium. Our seats were on the back wall so we had a little awning over us that saved us or else we would have been soaking wet and miserable. We stayed dry and relatively warm throughout the whole game while it poured outside. UW played Utah and lost...which was a bummer. We met the parents of the kicker on the UW team. They are from California and fly up for all their son's games. They used to have a jean business where they designed and manufactured high end jeans. It was interesting to talk to them. The area we sat in is where all the family to the players and coaches sit.

Preston is now a cub scout! Eeks! I sewed on all these patches which was a big pain because I did it by hand. There's this sticky stuff called Badge Magic and I didn't want to spend the extra money for it because the uniform, book and badges were expensive enough! BUT after sewing them on I might just go buy some. haha. So far he's been to a couple cub activities and loves it. 

I threw a Favorite Things Party. It was a lot of fun. I had people bring 3 items of the same thing where each one cost $10 or less (so you find one of your favorite thing for $10 or less and buy 3 of them). We put our names in a container then drew out 3 names. The names we drew out were the people we gave our favorite things to. We all went away with some new Christmas gift ideas. It was a fun night and I'm glad so many could come.

Kate has been bugging me to take her to the 2 story Target in Northgate. She's been before, but didn't remember it. So I took the kids by myself because Kyle was gone that night and the kids were horrible. Mainly Chelsea. It was embarrassing. I wanted to turn around and leave except we drove all this way and we had just walked in the door. And our cart got stuck in the cart elevator. Memories.

We had a no school day because of another wind storm that knocked power out to lots of schools in the school district. We went and had "recess" at a nearby school. It was a nice day and we still had power so it was kind of lame school was cancelled for us. 

I liked this 'thankful' banner my friend made for our Relief Society Thankful dinner we did before Thanksgiving. I got to keep it and was so excited to hang it up on my mantel. 

Halloween

 My Mom made these cute trick or treating bags for the kids with her fancy sewing machine. Kate's is the witch feet with a skirt, Preston's is Frankenstein, Lindsey's is the cat and Chelsea's is the ghost. She even made the bags!!! Seriously.

Chelsea did Peppa pig, Preston an Angry Bird, Kate a ghost and Lindsey a funny face.

Doc McStuffins (Chelsea), Little Bo Peep (Lindsey), Mario (Preston), Cowgirl (Kate)

At our ward Halloween party

I had to document how annoying the pine trees are behind our house. They make the biggest mess on our roof, gutters, back yard and front yard. This picture is of our front steps covered with pine needles. They are a pain to sweep up too. I can't wait for those trees to get removed. 

Sorting out all the candy after trick or treating.

Matt and Danielle Apken and their kids McKenna and Cade were coming up to North Bend from Oregon for a baby blessing so they stopped by on Halloween for dinner and went trick or treating with us.

Chelsea and McKenna were being pretty cute together. 

We had to make a trip to our favorite pumpkin patch, The Farm. They added this huge new slide with gunny sacks and the kids had fun with it. 

Preston's Ear Surgery

Preston needed major ear surgery to remove the cholesteatoma from his left ear, repair that ear drum and then put a tube in his right ear drum. The CAT scan he had earlier showed a cholesteatoma in his ear (his left ear was a mess and had lots of issues) so that ENT referred us to an Otologist downtown Seattle at Virginia Mason, Dr. Seth Schwartz. We really liked him and thought he was very thorough in explaining everything to us. We needed to do this surgery or Preston would lose his hearing. We did the surgery on October 23rd. It took forever for all the doctors and anesthesiologists to come in and get him set up. The surgery took an hour and a half. Dr. Schwartz was very happy with the results and said it went better than anticipated so that was awesome to hear. Preston was angry when he came out of anesthesia. He wanted to rip the ear muff thing off his head. It was hard to keep him from doing that. On our way home from the hospital he finally calmed down more and didn't try ripping it off anymore. Poor kid.

Our neighbors, the Wright's, gave Preston this minion when Mark came over to help Kyle give Preston a Priesthood blessing. So nice of them. Preston loves minions and even knows their names. 

This is what it looks like a couple days after surgery. We took off the bandage and saw the scars. We go back next week for a follow up and then again in December for a hearing test. 

My Mom gave this playdoh to Preston for him to make minions so here's one of them. She came over to watch the kids for the day while Kyle and I went to the hospital with Preston. That was so nice of her to come over. My Grandpa Bill was in the hospital with an infection in his leg so it was a crazy time for my Mom to leave. But Jeni and Kevin were helping my Grandpa and my Mom was going to go visit him when she got home. 

Bob the Builder

We went to a Root Beer Tasting party at some friends house and had a good time. I didn't know there were so many different kinds of root beers! We did a taste test of the normal one's which I did horrible at and then tasted some unique one's from all over the world. It was a fun night. These little mugs were funny. Here I am with Natalie Scollick and Robyn Vanderheyden.

Some preschool things I've been doing for Chelsea's co-op I'm a part of. For "D" week we did dog puppets and dinosaurs and fossils with dinosaurs. There are 6 kids in our preschool so each mom teaches for a week at a time. Over the course of the year we teach 6 times. We do it Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30-12. Chelsea likes it, but is sometimes naughty and doesn't sit still. She's just 3 so it's good experience for her for Sunbeams and for real preschool next year. I do the preschool with Shannon Wright, Adrienne Peterson, Laura Allred, Kim Asay and Lorane Willyerd. 

I have been working on redoing our bedroom. We got a king size bed which means we needed new bedding and it was a domino effect because then we needed new sheets, mattress pad, bed frame and a king size down comforter!!! Yikes. I painted the walls a blue color to match the light blue in the bedding. It's a grey aqua color. Then I made some coral euro pillows for a pop of color. We needed night stands so I found this Ikea hack on Pinterest and fell in love. I convinced Kyle to help me and got to work. It was a lot of work, but I love how they turned out. They were much cheaper than buying two similar night stands like these. So I bought those pine plain ones on the left then added trim, molding and a bigger top then painted them a white color to match our new white Ikea dressers. We gave our old dresser and night stand to Preston. I found new lamps at Walmart and voila they are done! Now to make a bench for the foot of the bed and decorate the walls. :) 

Circus

We went to the Circus with the Grossarth's and Owen's. We got there early and could go down to the floor and see the animals behind the curtain and see some extra quick shows. They still had elephants in their show, but we heard they are phasing them out. 

Happy 8th Birthday Preston!

Happy 8th Birthday Preston!!!

He loves playing Angry Birds Go on the ipad and so we did an angry birds themed party. He invited some friends from Church and School and everyone came! He loved playing with everyone as they wrestled and ran through the house. Boys are loud! I was glad he had fun though. It was cute to see him interact with his friends from school. 

He has recently started loving Minecraft so he was pretty excited for this 

He requested Subway for his lunch at school. I was going to bring treats in, but his teacher said they don't do treats and instead they share their favorite book. So Preston took a book to read to the class. I rolled my eyes because how lame they don't do treats for their birthdays.

When we decided on angry bird cupcakes Kate told me that Nerdy Nummies has an idea online. I checked it out and loved them. I made them even easier than how she made them and Preston loved them.

L-R: Paulos, Jack Nedry in back, Preston, Logan, Jackson Grossarth, Ethan Vanegas, Dallin Owens, Carson Bigelow behind him and Scott Bigelow.

Preston got baptized! Lots of family came to support him and we are so proud of him wanting to get baptized. I took some pictures with my Mom's fancy camera lens and Sara made this cute baptism invitation. She did awesome! We had a luncheon afterwards at our house for family. We served taco soup and chicken noodle soup with corn bread, rolls, chips and fixings. I had made carrot cake bars and cookie cake bars for dessert. It was fun to visit and have family visit.

Preston's primary teachers are good to him. They are very supportive. They are Julia and Bondy Allen.

All the cousins sang "Heavenly Father Loves Me" or as we know it Whenever I hear. :)

I'm glad Zane and Landon played with the trains because they hardly get used anymore.

Melanie got this picture before they left. Chelsea outside with no shoes riding her bike and she's cross eyed. That about sums her up. Makes me laugh.