October 2020!

Impromptu photo shoot in downtown Camas with her friend Aubrey!

Halloween dress!

This girl loves tomatoes!

Nay loves doing puzzles, too!

Nay dancing at her wedding!

Snuggles!

Any moment I have that they are playing all together I have to document! :)

On the boat!

Ballet class!

She just looks so old and beautiful to me!

Washing her own hair!

I swear I didn't make them clean the windows!:)

Nay doing her school work, too!

We have fun doing a comb over on Nay's hair after baths! But then she quickly asks for her Nay Nay hair to be back, which means make it all curly again!

Play dough fun!

Mia's favorite dessert-homemade ice cream sundaes!

Sister sleepover and they actually slept here the whole night! I was shocked!

Puzzle #22-Still obsessed!

Nay's tap dance practice for the recital!

Ballet!

Love her imagination!

Nay loves licking off all the cream cheese!

Our second date during the 7 months of the pandemic! It was so amazing! We had dinner outside on the patio at a local restaurant! And we had 21 hours kid free thanks to Sittee & Auntie Kelly!!

Another birthday parade! This time for our neighbor!

Watching Uncle Quinn race online at Nationals!

He finished in 5th place!!! Woohoo!!!

Puzzle #23

Online school!

Daily play dough time with our nannying kiddos!

Thanks to the family members and friends that purchased a Payback book from Kyrie this year, he was the top seller for the entire school!!

Fun with makeup!

Kinda scary???:) She wanted it off 2 seconds after Mia finished!

Painting!

Mia chose to make the sweet bread Pan de Meurto for her Spanish class's Day of the Dead celebration !

So yummy!

Mia's video she created for her class!

Our little bride!

Puzzle #24

Dancing before bed!

"I love you in the middle of the night", preformed by Naomi Hamilton

Can't get enough of her signing and dancing!

Kisses!

Special dress created by Mia!:)

Cheering on Bub at a baseball scrimmage! Love her hair here!

Kyrie pitching a strike out!

I think Nay may have some acting in her future like her big bro!!

Reading through one of the books I wrote in 4th grade! 

The book was dedicated to Uncle George, Aunt Linda, and Daphne!

In honor of my Grandma Cusack's 98th birthday, we had her special monkey bread!!

Took a recipe of my mom's and one of my grandma's and framed them for our kitchen counter!

How do little ones make such big messes???!!:)

Halloween craft!

Happy 4th birthday, Nolan!

Not sure exactly what is happening here with all of Nay's barbie dolls!:)

Puzzle #25

Thanks to a class assignment, Mia surprised us with pancakes one morning!

Mia and her remote learning buddy, Kingsley!

They both got farm animal onesies for Halloween!

A whole tub of candy and goodies from her dance teacher!

Donuts with the girls after ballet class!

Sorting colors!

Facetime with Miles!

Nay loves when she gets to go spend time over at Sittee's house!

Sportin' Nay's 4t puffy vest!:)

Puzzle #26

Colored their own princess masks! I told them to put their arms around each other in this pic, and this is how it ended up!!:)

School work!

Balloon b-ball!

Cool kids!!

Making sure our votes count!

Happy birthday, Evan!

Mommy-son date!

Puzzle #27

Helping make Halloween sugar cookie dough!

Ready to decorate!

Cookie decorating!

Ready to eat!

I mean it's sunny so ice cream right???

Nay loves to dance!

Storytime with Sittee!!

The kids' favorite thing to do is make a pillow fort!

Halloween craft!

Loving his new cut from Sittee!

Reading by the fire!

Nay has become interested in helping me with my puzzles!

Nay has learned her letter sounds! Thanks to practice and the Leap Frog Alphabet video!

Kyrie was chosen by receiving online behavior tickets to get interviewed by the principal! I loved what he had to say! He would like me to note that he is in 4th grade and he said "football", not "softball"!:)

(from Fox secretary)

Had to include these comments here on the blog for Kyrie to read back in future......

Nay created a zoo for her animals!

More ballet!:)

Puzzle #28! 

This one was difficult!! It never looks like there are actually 1000 pieces, but there are!!

Black Lives Matter! Nay hasn't forgotten!

Howl-o-ween at the Portland Zoo with Kinley and Auntie! This was Naomi's first visit! Big kids haven't been there in over 3 years!

Black Bear! We are working on Naomi's mask wearing!:)

Giraffes!

So hard getting a good pic of the lion's den with the reflection!

1-2-3 whee!!

Howl-o-ween treat bag at the end of the scavenger hunt!

Shark!

Beautiful day in the sun at the zoo! 

Joe's Pumpkin Patch- 

This has been our patch of choice the past few years, but this will be our last since Joe is retiring at the end of the season!

Kyrie in the maze!

Navigating the maze!

Found their way out!

It was such a beautiful sunny day, but windy and freezing!!!

It's been fun, Joe! Happy retirement!!

Workout in matching pjs!:)

Annual pumpkin carving on Halloween day!!

Nay colored her pumpkin this year!

Mia-Seahawk logo-colored pumpkin!

Trunk or Treat in our car put on by a local church!

So creative!

Ready for candy!

Candyland!

Fishing pole to get the kids the candy at one car!

One of the church goers is a church member I grew up with at Memorial Lutheran, Bryan and Sylvia Englesen!

Love the pumpkins!

Afterward we headed to Grace's, socially distanced scavenger hunt in the church backyard

The farmer and her cow and pig!

Got to play a game!

Photo shoot at the end!

Candy Fun Fest!

Many of our neighbors put out tables with treats on them for trick or treating!

Traditional dinner of chili and cornbread before trick of treating!

Trick or treating with her friend, Kingsley!

And kinley!

Our trick or treating crew!

Trick of treating 2020 was like no other!

Princess Daddy!

Loved the contraptions that the people used to distribute the candy! 

Gloves and a candy shoot!

Some houses just had candy set outside!

So much candy!! 

Candy sliding down off their roof!

Shooting the candy though this pvc pipe with a leaf blower!

Naomi came home and immediately started sorting her candy!

And no matter what side you are on politically, this is an amazing and encouraging day for all little girls in our country!! So thankful and happy!