Family Pinewood Derby Race

Thanksgiving

We had family from Dayton and Las Vegas out for Thanksgiving this year. It was a lot of fun. We were all just getting over the stomach flu but the food tasted pretty good anyway. The cousins had a good time. The weather was beautiful and the kids spent most of the time outside playing. They all made pinewood derby cars and we had a big race one day. They played Ninja Destruction and watched some good movies.

The Bestest Mom

Well, once again I earned the title of the bestest Mom. Yay!!! What did I do you ask? Well, it wasn't saving someone from a burning building. It wasn't spending hours and days on a school project to achieve an A+. It wasn't actually any sacrifice at all.
I fed my Erik food we don't usually eat for breakfast. He was so excited, the look on his face was priceless. " You're the bestest Mom ever " he said. "I love you soooo much"
Well, I have to say, I will definantely have to do that more often. :) I guess its the simple things in life.

Volcanoes

Landon got to come stay with us for a few days while Bransen was born. He and Erik had a great time. One day, we made "volcanoes". They had a blast!! It kept them totally occupied and kept the messes cleaned up for 2 hours!!!

Erik turns 4!!!

My little baby, sorry, big man, turned 4!! I can't believe it. He had an Angry Bird birthday party. We played pin the nose on the pig, built towers and threw angry birds at them and went on an angry bird egg hunt. He had a great time. It's wonderful that he has enough cousins that live close by to supply enough kids for a whole party.







4 year old Erik Loves:

Lego's
jumping on the trampoline
Food
Lightning McQueen
his "50,000 beautiful Mom"
his "awesome" Dad
playing with cousins
angry birds

He doesn't like:
rice
being home alone
nightmares about garbage trucks
being bored

His goals for the future:
play soccer
go to kindergarten
be bigger than all of his brothers

Fall Festival

The Fall Festival Carnival is an event the boys count down to. They love it almost as much as Christmas. This year Michael got to ride the rides with his best friend. He had a blast. He wanted to ride this spinny spaceship ride. I was worried he would be sick but he was so excited. And after the ride he came out with a HUGE smile on his face. Neil was actually able (forced):) to go this year. I think he ended up having fun. Erik was sound asleep before we made it home with his bag of cotton candy in his hand.

Soup in a Jar

It's getting to be that time of year again. Fall. Well, maybe not yet, the temps are still near 100 but I am hoping eventually it will come.:) I love making soup in a jar mixes for winter. They are so easy for a quick dinner and comforting food storage. It only took me about an hour to make a months worth of dinners. Hooray.

This is one of my favorites. Instant Potato Soup.

Dreaming of a White Christmas Soup

Love Soup

Camp out

Layron had his first boy scout overnight campout. He was so excited. I wanted to go with him and snap pictures but he thought that was not such a great idea.:) He packed all of his stuff that he would need by himself. He had a great time and passed off quite a bit of requirements.

Angry Birds

This guy, likes nothing better, than to knock over towers!!!!!




Erik had a great afternoon building towers and crashing them down!!!!! The angry bird phenomenom has definantely hit the Sonerholm house!!!

First Day of Preschool

Today was Erik's first day of preschool. He was very excited!!! When we first got to school he got pretty nervous and shy. I eventually snuck out and he did just fine! Yeah!! Sorry about the pics, he was so jittery, I couldn't get him to hold still.