Snow Day

We went to find snow on Saturday and found some icy stuff great for sledding, but not so great for snowmen.

I guess we'll have to go again soon!

Happy New Year's Eve!

His hair didn't turn out as cute this time I think, but it's still fun.

Plus I got this cute pout when I first set him down. :)

Hope you're enjoying your last day of the year. We shouted happy new year at 9pm and put them all to bed, but a half hour later I can still hear them all. Katie has her friends Katie and Liza over to spend the night so I don't expect them to sleep anytime soon. Hey, it's vacation right!

Fun times!

We were trying to get a good shot of Ammon's do, but we'll have to try again in front of a lighter background, it's growing in very blond, but the rest is still pretty dark. Meanwhile, I like this pic of him watching me.

Ammon's blessing was on Sunday, and most everyone noticed during it, Bryan mention more than once his sense of humor. That must be prerequisite for being in our family.


Our Christmas things are starting to come down now, and we are taking donations of anyone that wants to drop off their live tree in our side yard. We love our bonfires and those trees put on quite the show.

Hope you all are enjoying this special time.

We've been busy here and often tired, especially Ammon and me.

I miss keeping up with mine, and everyone elses blogs. I'm so out of touch!

We are excited for Christmas and looking forward to the new year.

Time to go feed Ammon, again.

Ammon Bryan Hiner

Everyone was anxiously waiting for the phone call from the hospital on Monday telling us that it was time to come in for Vanessa to be induced. The call didn't come until 9pm when all the kids were already in bed. Aunt Jill came over to spend the night while Bryan and Vanessa took off to the hospital. After a long night of medication and slow progress, Ammon Bryan Hiner joined us at 11:07 on Tuesday morning. He weighed in at 8lbs 9.6 oz and was 21.5" long. Ammon immediately went to eating after all that work he had done, once again making mom wait her turn to eat.

Katie, Kevin, and Hunter spent the day at the zoo with aunts and cousins. They came to visit Tuesday evening and were so excited to see their baby brother. Ammon has been sleeping and eating well. We are so happy to have him here with us.

Tagged

My Sis-in-Law tagged me and since she changed her pregnancy counter I must comply. Though if you'll note, my fetus is still cuter than her fetus. :)

Here it is:
8 Things...

8 TV shows I watch:
1. Amazing Race
2. Life
3. The Office
4. Survivor
5. America’s Toughest Jobs (it’s over now)
6. Biggest Loser
7. I’ll catch Oprah or SuperNanny if I happen by and they’re interesting, but don’t make any effort to watch them.

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. Julio G’s – for spinach enchiladas
2. Olive Garden – for the salad
3. In-N-Out – for everything!
4. Taco Bell – for the Nacho Grande and cinnatwists
5. The Melting Pot – for the Desserts
6. Chick-fil-A – good chicken and they just came out w/ a chocolate peppermint shake I must try.
7. Nielsen's – the custard of course
8. Mimi’s – salads and French onion soup

8 Things I did yesterday:
1. made cards
2. ate
3. talked on the phone
4. ate
5. laundry
6. ate
7. sent emails
8. snacked

8 things I am looking forward to:
1. Christmas
2. a new baby
3. Bryan being off work for a while
4. more roses blooming from our new plants
5. whatever unhealthy thing I’m going to bake tomorrow
6. Thanksgiving
7. all the cool stuff my kids are doing/learning, as they are growing so fast
8. the beautiful weather we are and will continue to have.

8 things on my wish list:
1. octodog maker
2. having more organized rooms
3. not being in too much pain in the coming weeks
4. If You Give a Pig a Party, by Laura Numeroff
5. Wii
6. a maid
7. cool craft paper
8. treadmill

People I hereby tag:
Anyone that is reading this or has a vowel in their name.

Grrrrrrrrr

Hope you all had a great Halloween!

We had fun at our church carnival then trunk-or-treating. I'm happy to have all the chocolate around, but surprisingly haven't eaten that much. Maybe because I still had hello dollys and pie, which trump a fun size chocolate.

The kids enjoyed the games.

Bowling, donut eating, mini golf...

For Trunk-or-Treating Katie was the only one who got to all the cars for collecting candy. Kevin would run up to each person and growl, and Hunter just loved looking at any decorations people had brought, but lucky for me he still said trick-or-treat to increase our candy supply.

I was a cow and Bryan was my farmer.

Unfortunatly we did not get a picture.

The kids are cuter anyway.

Kevin is 4!!!

Kevin Hiner, born October 19th, 2004.
(thanks for the pic idea Heather)

Kevin helped me make the cake and all the kids helped decorate!
A big thank you to everyone for all the cool stuff!!! The clothes are awesome and he wants to wear them all. (As he's finishing going potty "Mommy, I love my Diego underwear.")
The toys are great, so we're going through one at a time, and the rocketship card is being played with as much as anything.
Bryan's happy, because they're ages are the aproppriate ratio again (2, 4 & 6), but he's only got until January before that's ruined again. Just don't trust what he says, because he'll just keep Katie's 6 untill Hunter's birthday, then promote them all. He'll at least get one out of 3 right that way.

Miss Hiner

Katie's teacher was letting me know Katie had extra papers in her bag today, because she had asked for some. She wanted to teach the boys all about Mesopotamia. Her teacher was impressed.

Katie always says she wants to be a teacher when she grows up. She loves to practice on anyone who will let her. I often find papers that are titled Miss Hiner, then list her brothers and stuffed animals as students. When I ask her what grade she wants to teach she says "little kids, but not too little".

I found this hanging in her bedroom last year.

Silly Faces

Aunts are great! They get their niece and nephews the coolest stuff, like these fake pumpkins.

I'm all for the traditional pumpkin carving, and the mess that comes with it, but these fake things are awesome! They are so light, and you can carve, draw, paint or in this case poke and hot glue any face you'd like.

Now that we've got these decorations, it's time to bust out Aragog and get him on the roof.

Happy Halloween!