Brooklyn and Madeline come to visit!

My younger siblings had fall break the week after we were in AZ, and since their family vacation got cancelled, my little sisters talked me into letting them fly home with us :) They are sweet girls and great helpers with the kids. Unfortunately I already had a busy week planned so they got to see what the life of a mother of 3 little children is like... hope they at least kind of enjoyed the ride :)

We flew in Sunday evening and first thing Monday morning we were off to the pumpkin patch. The kids were excited to finally go after a couple weeks of just driving by!

Jordan Farrer, Brinley, and Charlotte Coughland

The beginning of the ride, all smiles :)

 The kids were happy to go on this ride, and I was happy to go with them... but to be honest as much as I love Six Flags, this ride made me so sick to my stomach!

Bradlee and Jordan are a cute set of twins that live behind us and Brinley had SO much fun with them!

Marlee just loves Brooklyn! She had so much fun playing with her!

It has become tradition, TRADITION! To make Borsch when the girls come to town. It is their favorite Russian food so it is fun to make it for/with them. It is loaded with 8 different types of veggies and is so delicious, plus my kids like it too!

It had been forever since I made 100% whole wheat brea. So we ground up some wheat and gave it a shot. I haven't been able to stop eating it :)

We had a Halloween party one of the afternoons and had a great time!

Casen and Graham

Emmy, Liberty, Marlee, and Berrett... only these babies were left at the picnic table, all the big kids went in the tree house or the "big" picnic table

Back: Jansen, Bailey, Meg
Middle: Mark, Graham, Berrett, Emmy, Marlee, Liberty, Daphne, DJ, Maika
Front: Natalie, Brinley, Alana

My Friend Collette has made witches brew for this Halloween party the last 3 years, but she moved this summer and so I had to take matter into my own hands!

I was kinda nervous to make up the little story of finding the "witches brew" ingredients.... crushed skeleton bones (sugar), Bug guts (rootbeer flavor), Ghosts blood (water), and Goblins breath (Dry ice). But the kids were all into it and had fun!

My three little helpers!

The smoke never gets old. This is my kids favorite thing :)

My cheesy little pirate :)

Brooklyn and Madeline were great sports and let the kids wrap them up as Mummys as the boys and girls raced to cover their mummy first

Brinley wanted the girls to see her school, so Thursday we all headed down to Darnell to eat lunch with Brinley. There wasn't enough room at her class table, so we had to sit in the detention table :)

Had a great time with these girls! Lucky to have such great little sisters :)