Disney on Ice

Kyle won us a set of four tickets to see Disney on Ice! He made a special request for one extra ticket, and so we ended up with all FIVE of us able to go! Soooo exciting... Especially for three little kids who have not yet been to Disneyland. All their favorite characters, and pretty great seats. SO. MUCH. FUN!!! (Babylove at home with a sitter)... :)

 

 

The only pic of all 5 of us... Ha ha, not winning any photography awards today :)

 

 

 

 

 

A day in the life...

Madeline: "on stage" singing with Kyle on guitar

the rest: a pig pile :)

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween, North Pole Style...

If you recall, last Halloween the kids topped the sweetness charts by choosing to be the Holy Family for Halloween. Seriously, hard to ever ever ever beat that. And we shall not ever have a tiny baby boy again to play baby Jesus, so that special moment will never be topped.

 

This year, the kids banded together and decided to AGAIN go with a Christmas theme. This time, Santa and company and won out, so feast your eyes on the cutest set of Christmas characters you have ever seen. Ever Ever Ever. I apparently am TOTALLY enamored with my kids and their costume choices. HO HO HO, Happy Halloween!!!

 

Max: Santa Claus (who refused to wear his perfectly groomed beard, cripes...)

Marin: Mrs Claus

Marcus: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Madeline: Elf

 

 

Dad: himself

Mom: nerdy girl with pumpkin ears (we are super creative)

 

 

 

 

Rudolph getting a ride with Uncle Jordan while we trick-or-treat  :)

 

 

Max's preschool costume party:

 

 

 

 

 

My four most precious pumpkins :) What treasures they each are!! And they still let me do matching clothes!!

 

 

In other pumpkin news...

... this year's designs for the Corrigan pumpkins are as follows:

 

Marin ("a rockstar pumpkin")

 

 

 

 

 

 

Madeline ("a sweetie with eyelashes")

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Max ("an Angry Birds pumpkin", thank you Google Images)

Pumpkin patch with Grandpa

My parents have a tradition of accompanying each of our kids on a pumpkin patch field trip at least once during their "preschool years". My mom took Marin, my dad took Madeline and now Max. What a SPECIAL, SPECIAL memory , and one we will treasure forever. I love that all our parents (both mine and Kyle's) take the time to make memories with our kids. It is a gift.

Fall soccer!

We completed our first season of SOCCER with the girls. They were on two different teams, which meant 4 days a week of practices and games. Good thing us parents LOVE this sport :) They had so much fun, and had two very awesome guys as coaches (each was a dad of a player). It was so neat to see how they worked out their own interests on the field. Marin has a definite instinct for defense, however if you ask her about liking soccer, she will give you a so-so rating. PERHAPS we need to tone down our enthusiasm and give her room to decide if she really likes it on her own. Madeline (who started out very unsure), came to love game days. She loved the uniforms (fashion, of course) and the thrill of being in a real game with people cheering. She split her time evenly between running at full speed (LONG LEGS) and skipping along smelling the dandelions :) She says she is definitely playing next year. We shall see about Marin. All I know is Max is ITCHING to get on a team, that kid will need no prompting!!

 

Marin is #8 (just like mom!) in Blue Kicking Kangaroos jersey. Maddy is #5  in Yellow Sunflowers uniform :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The little mascot... tagging along at every activity! Don't worry buddy, you will get your day in the sun too :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Practicing with the camera

Kyle has been giving me lessons on our D50.  Figuring things out a little bit at a time :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love the TOUGH GUY cringing as his affectionate sis comes in for a smooch :)

Marcus and his funny life

Marcus is such a funny boy :) A few examples:

 

1. He and Madeline inherited my long tongue... But seriously - it looks like he is chewing on a slug!!!

 

 

2. He found a cozy spot to lay back and relax... on Dad's shoe :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. The kiss face (favorite pose when the camera is out)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. The glare (it's a happy face) - I think he's trying to make eyes :) It just looks like a glare... Ha ha!

 

Preschool Potluck

We attended our FOURTH "back to school" preschool potluck dinner! The girls loved visiting their old preschool, seeing their old classrooms, chatting with the teachers. It's funny how adults feel like it was "just yesterday" when these tall girls were the tiny preschoolers, but in their lives it seems like a long time ago. I could tell they felt a bit removed from it all. But of course, they loved supporting Max in his new school environment. We all did! I love that our family knows how to rally around each person who has something special going on. Highlight was of course... the cotton candy machine :)

 

 

 

 

 

Kyle's thoughts: "Please stop taking my picture woman"