Dakota's 9th Birthday

My sweet Dakota turned 9 this year!  She got to go out with Grandma and Grandpa on a date, also with her cousin Holli who almost shares the same birthday! (One day after).  They chose to go get manicures and Pedicures!  They had a blast!

 And then of course, we threw her a birthday party as well!  She had a bunch of her friends come over to our house for pizza, cake and presents, and then we drove them all over to Laserquest where they got to play a few games!  They had a lot of fun together.  Little girls can be so loud and giggly! :)  They were cute though!  She has such a nice group of her girls her age.

Crazy September Snowfall!

Shortly after school started, like we are talking the second week of September, we had a huge freakish snowstorm!  I have never seen anything like it!  It started out small and I figured it wouldn't actually be enough to stick to the ground.  But boy was I ever wrong.  It just kept coming and coming.  It was such wet heavy snow, and all the trees still had all their leaves so the snow sat on the tree branches and totally bent over and broke many trees.  It was quite sad actually. But the kids had a great time playing in the snow, it was kind of a fun surprise for them since it was so unexpected! 

 And Lee helped them make a HUGE snowman!  They were so proud!

 And here's a classic picture of Scarlett, running around in just her undies (backwards and barely covering her bum, no less) and out playing in the snow!  It is really hard to keep clothes on this girl!

Back to School

It was a sad and happy day to go back to school this year!  I will miss my kiddos but it's also nice to get back into a routine.  Mason started grade 5 this year, and Dakota grade 4 at Fish Creek School

 And Griffin started Grade 1 at Chaparral School.  Sad that he's at a separate school all by himself, but it doesn't seem to bother him!  He has a lot of friends there!

 And poor little Scarlett has to spend all day alone with me now!  She sure wished she was going to school too!

Some Fun Date Nights

So Lee and I had signed up to do the Neon Run in September with a few friends, but because of his knee, he wasn't able to run it with me.  Luckily, my awesome sister was able to take his place!  It was actually quite a fun run!  It was just 5K, and at night so we ran in the dark and they threw glowing powder at us.  It was kinda fun to get dressed up in Neon glow stuff too!

 We had a few other fun date nights, going Hunting together!  I got more into it this year, signed up for my own WIN card and tags and went a few times with Lee and the boys!  And this year I actually got some birds!  Lee smeared the blood of my first kill on my face and made me wring the duck's neck to kill him all the way since he was still alive... that part was kinda gross!  But overall, hunting was a big rush, and we had a great time!  I also went hunting for partridge one day too, which turned out to be my favorite kind of hunt! They all fly up out of the ground all of a sudden, and you just try to shoot as many as you can!  It's fun to have a hobby I can do with Lee.