roller skating

Some friends of ours invited the kids to come to their roller skating birthday party.  My kids have never been skating before, but they really wanted to go.  Kyle and Hailey skated the whole time, or at least attempted to.  They definitely got better as the day went on, but I have a feeling that they will be sore and bruised tomorrow.

 Nicole and Katie said that they did not want to try it, but they did enjoy the cake and ice cream and playing with the glow sticks.

The party

I only do birthday parties for the kids on certain birthdays, and this year was not a party year for Kyle or Hailey, but they both really wanted to do something fun with friends. So I decided to let them each invite some of their friends over for a party, but not really a birthday party.  We didn't do cake and candles or presents, they just got to play with their friends.  Hailey ended up having 5 friends come and Kyle had 7 friends.  They got here at about 6:30

This is how we discovered Lydia right before everyone arrived.  It got a little crazy while everyone was getting here, but once everyone was here it settled down.  The girls started off playing on the Trampoline while the boys got started playing flag football.

 Rachel got the girls showing off some of their talents, while I got Lydia to bed.  This is Hailey with her best friend Brooke, Brooke is showing off her tongue talents.

 after awhile the girls came in and worked on making some bead necklaces, and the boys had a turn on the trampoline.

 Next we did ice cream sundaes.  I think they were a hit, especially since they got to put as much topping on their ice cream as they wanted.

Things got a little crazy again after the ice cream because all the kids ended up on the trampoline and that was to many, so we brought the girls in and they painted each others nails.

By then they party was about over, the girls ended the night with a game of Princess charades and the boys finished the night in Kyles room building with Legos. The parents picked everyone up at 8:30 and all of the kids seemed like they had a great time.  Marc is allready planning the next one.

We had all the kids sign these giant cards for Kyle and Hailey, they turned out cute.

Kyles Birthday

Kyle is 9!! Boy how time flies.  We got up Friday morning and he opened his present from us.  We got him a microscope, he loved it.  He spent the rest of the day finding bugs and mushrooms and all kinds of things to look at.  Marc took him out to breakfast they had a really good time.  He also took Hostess cupcakes to school to share with his class. it sounds like he had a good day at school.  He wanted pizza for dinner so when he got home we got pizza and root beer.  Rachel and Tyler and their family came for dinner.  I wanted to put candles in the pizza because I knew we wouldn't have time for candles later, but the candles melted in the hot pizza, so they were little and leaning over by the time we were ready to blow them out, but it was still fun. 

September at the Murdocks

I just realized that September is almost over and I haven't written much.  September has been a good month. I always like September the weather cools down but the days are still nice and sunny.  The kids go back to school and I get to have more of a schedule to my days.  I will start with Kyle, he has still been adjusting to his new school it has taken a little while but seems to be liking it more and more every day.  He stayed really busy this month with school stuff and scouts, he has also decided that he likes basketball so he likes to practice that in his free time.  He is excited that is new school finally got mileage club going and in two weeks has already ran over 5 miles, and is the top kid in his class.  Hailey is loving her class, her two best friends are in it with her and they have tons of fun.  She loves to read and is reading several books each week. She lost her other top tooth and looks so cute.

Nicole and Katie are stuck at home with me all day. We try to go walking in the morning which has been lots of fun.  They do school work each day and usually spend some time everyday playing with  their cousins.  They get awfully excited for Kyle and Hailey to get home. 

Lydia turned 5 months old a couple of days ago.  She is doing great other then the fact that she still doesnt sleep through the night.  She has started eating a little bit of solids each night, she eats a little bit, but I think that she would rather eat what I am eating she gets so excited to get a bite of my food.  she is sstarting to sit up on her own and is moving quite a bit, she pulls herself where she wants to go.  The kids think it is so funny watching her move.  She has even started getting up on her hands and knees.

pictures

I have been wanting to get some new family pictures taken, we haven't had any done for a couple of years. Rachel volunteered to take some for us, so Sunday afternoon we got everyone ready and we to the Yakima arboretum and took lots of pictures. Here are some of our favorites:

family pictures

Kyle

Kyle was pretty funny, he had all kinds of places where he wanted Rachel to take his picture he had a lot of fun

Hailey

Katie

Nicole

Lydia

 all the kids

Marc and Anna

We had a lot of fun and I think that we got some really nice pictures.  Thank you Rachel and Tyler!