The LAS clan: 2016

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Halloween 2016

This was the first year the kids scored a TON of candy! We started out in our old neighborhood, Collage, and then went through our beighborhood and the next one over. When the day started out, it was pouring so we were so happy that the temperature was mild at nighttime and the rain held off for a while. We went trick or treating with Robyn, Sammy and Danny.

I helped out at school in Sydney's classroom and Ava's. Then I listened to Luke read his "realistic fiction" story to his whole class! I was amazed at how calm he was! I would of been a nervous wreck up there in front of class. Luke did say he was nervous but I certainly could not tell.

Thursday, October 27, 2016

School Pictures 2016

School Pictures are here! They turned out great and that is All I really have to say about it! Yay!

Monday, October 24, 2016

Dear Blog

Dear Blog,

I literally think of you everyday and how I want to write but our lives have grown so busy that it is fallen off my list of priorities. My soul hears these whispers telling me to write more, I know it is a creative outlet that will actually help me deal with all the business so here I am today making time for it.

I promised Luke that I would get back to it, knowing that that promise would help me stay on track. It is a calming ritual for him and I to read and talk about our memories at night.

All three of my precious kids are so weighed down by anxiety and OCD. The heavy energy of it just sucks them all in the morning and then before I know... no one wants to go to school. Every day is different so I am always trying to figure out the trigger... is it a lack of vitamin, the lack of sun, lack of meat or iron? Are they just overly sensitive or is a real disorder in their brain that is harder to treat than a behavior? Sometimes I get so caught up in fixing the problem that I forget my own advice that I always tell them. Give it God... do the best you can and it Let It Be! Some things are not meant to be fixed by me... this is their journey and I have given them the tools but now THEY need to use them. I need to exercise faith and continue to pray...

So that is where I will leave you today, my dear old blog that is always here for me. I need to celebrate my quiet time I had this morning because all 3 did successfully go to school today! I am sitting in an outdoor church by Farmer Brown's garden at the neighborhood Methodist church. Lucy is playing with her doggy friend, Harry. I will visit you again tomorrow!

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Pumpkin Patch 2016

The 5 of us had such great a time at the Thomas Family Farm! This was our second year going. My favorite part is the rock quarry where you get to mine gems from a bag of dirt you buy. Another one of my favorite parts was watching the kids play! I feel like they are getting so old so it was fun to watch them having fun playing in the tunnel slides, burying each other in the corn kernel pit, and squelching around in muddy pumpkin Patch! I had quite the clean up when we got home but it was well worth the mess! Before bed, we watched old video's from 6 years ago! My... what a big difference 6 years is! They are just bigger versions of themselves now and it is so cute to see how their same little souls are still shining through!

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Happy 1st Birthday Lucy!

This never posted from June...

Lucy turned 1 on Friday, June 3rd. We spoiled her with lots of new toys, lots of love and peanut butter & bacon doggy ice cream. She is the best pluffers in the world. None of us can imagine her not being in our lives!

Morning snuggles...

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

First day of school 2016

Today was the first day of school and it went very well, especially for Luke and Ava. Luke amazed me at how much he has matured since last year. He handled it all so well, especially without having an open house this year. Ava is in class with her good friend, Evelyn and some other friends from last year. She friended a new girl today at recess. I was so proud of her for trying to make the new girl feel comfortable. Sydney had a hard time with her clothes and getting her shoes on but she ultimately did it. She was scared, "feeling shy" and was shedding some tears. She did walk into the classroom with everyone and luckily Missy Cornwell was volunteering to help her class. She is only half day... Gone for 3 hours. I think that will be enough for her. She was exhausted after we walked home. Luke and as a were so sweet to console her. Ava's classroom shares the same pod as hers. I am so proud of my kids!

Someday we will be able to ditch the wagon!

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Backyard Photos!

We have all been enjoying our backyard so much this summer! It just keeps on getting bigger and better as we add plants and special little places!

Mandatory Park Hopping Day!

A couple weeks ago, I needed to get outta the house. We were just having a home day and I started to go stir crazy. We jumped in the car and went to rhododendron park... Somewhere I have always wanted to go with the kids. Ava and Syd are very go with the flow most times but Little Lukey could sit and watch his Dan TDM you tube videos and play minecraft all day long! So we went to the park and Luke was bored about 20 minutes later. So we walked around and then I decided that we go to another park and keep visiting parks we had never seen until Luke stopped complaining. Hahahaha...

Then we went to Finn Hill Park and went in the many trails there were beautiful and so much fun. It was seriously painful for Luke the whole time! The girls and I had fun though! And I know a part of Luke had fun as well. We had to leave because Luke and I stepped in some kind of animal poop! It was a stinky ride home!