King Family: November 2008

Monday, November 24, 2008

Random Family Night Pics

a few random pics from family night the monday before thanksgiving, i believe this particular night we had a BRIEF (leesons are always brief with little ones aren't they?) grattitude lesson, made cupakes,and played "mother may i ?".

on a side note -

perhaps i should think seriously about cleaning the children's faces before i take pictures.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Twi-Night

I took in a little TWILIGHT with the ladies last night at midnight, and totally enjoyed myself! Thanks to all who went for a fun girls night out! :)

*for some reason I am a touch tired this morning however...hmm

Sunday, November 16, 2008

all trimmed up

Both of my girls got a haircut this past week, for Maggie it was her first one ever. Unfortunately I forgot to bring the camera to the salon with us. Here are the results! :)

PTA

This past week I spent a large part of my time organizing meals for the teachers at Lia's school during parent teacher conferences. I went to the first PTA meeting of the year thinking I could probably help in some small way. As soon as I sat down they asked me my name and what committee I wanted to chair this year!? Not exactly what I was expecting, but "Teacher Appreciation would be good..I guess" somehow came out of my mouth and next thing you know - I'm in charge! :) So this past week we fed the teachers - all in all it went well, no major catastrophes. The only small hiccup occurred Thursday morning when we had an alarm malfunction at the King household. We thought the alarm was set for 4:30am (early I know, but keep in mind I was supposed to be cooking 12 cinnamon rolls, 2 egg casseroles, 1 french toast casserole, and cut up two platters full of fruit by 7am). To make a long story short - for some reason the alarm never went off and both Tyler and I woke up at 6am. We had 1 hour...you should have seen the scramble. Somehow we managed to pull everything together - and get to the school by about 7:15.

Needless to say it was a long week, but the teachers were very appreciative.
Here are some pics of some of the things we made for them.

lia helped me fashion this centerpiece made of school supplies

Parent Teacher Conference Survival Packs ...complete with chocolate and scented candle

cute poems for each of the staff-
thanks to my rockin' sister for this darling poem about teachers :)

Friday, November 14, 2008

Happy Birthday G. Steve

Here are some birthday messages for the BEST dad/grandpa in the entire world.

Happy Birthday GrAnDpa StEve, we love and miss you so!

Monday, November 10, 2008

moving on to turkey day -

This is Lia's most recent school project. They had to design a turkey on a template that was sent home, the rules were that they couldn't use crayons, markers, or pencils. Here is what she came up with - all Tyler and I did was set out the craft supplies, other than that we didn't touch the thing. I think it turned out rather cute!:)

wanna be like aunt katie..

I believe when Tyler was a young scrub he wanted to be like Mike.....when it comes to basketball idols my son has chosen a much better roll model, he wants to be like Aunt Katie. Katie (tyler's younger sister) plays basketball for the University of Utah - and happens to be one of the nicest human beings on the planet. This year she is playing a tournament in Milwaukee over Thanksgiving, we are thrilled to have Tyler's family out for Thanksgiving and then spend the weekend watching basketball and hanging out with Grandma, Grandpa and aunt Kiley (tyler's baby sister - also one of my children's FAVORITE people).

Here's Katie in action

Here's my Jax - practicing his skills in the front yard the other day!

We are geared up and ready to cheer for the lady UTES in a few weeks (i can hear Adam Mangum sighing in the background...that's right Adam you heard me, none of of that nasty blue and white around this household! )

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Halloween - Part 2

Here are the rest of our Halloween photos - Including a halloween playgroup we attended, and the kids actually trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. We had some friends over for pizza Halloween night and then headed out with all of our kiddos to get candy from the neighbors - it was fun, we feel lucky to live by such nice people.

the kids checking out their candy back at our house

maggie - munching and hitching a ride with dad, who may i just say let her eat candy pretty much the entire time we walked around...nice ty
here's jax having an intense conversation about ninjas with our friend walter reade
lia and her friend laura - i was lucky to get this photo because these two ran the ENTIRE time
ty chatting - for some reason i just love this pic of maggie, which is why i include it
a tired turtle
kids on the move
lia and laura - runnin' in their boots
awesome halloween weather for wisconsin this year - no coats! :) group shot
halloween part/playgroup pumpkin craft
eating lunch watermelon brain - no i did not make this, though i wish i could take credit, props go to my friend joanna for this festive snack - co cute!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Maggie learns quickly...

Maggie learned if you walk around saying this to people (well at least this past week) it generally results in a treat in your plastic pumpkin! She has a serious sweet tooth, so she was all over it.

enjoy!

tRuNk or tReAt

Our ward trunk-or-treat was Wednesday evening, it was a great time -
here are some pics of the fun.....

Tyler and some of the young men were in charge of the ever popular "throw a wet sponge at the bishop game". The kids LOVE it - he was busy all night. The bishop was very patient, and very wet by the end of the evening.