See, no camera, but kind of a cool picture anyway.
Shaving cream and a razor! AAAAHhh!!
Twirly skirt from Grandma Clift.
Opening up her presents that she already knew what they all were. For her birthday week I took her out shopping with just us girls and we went to tons of stores, I gave her a budget and she went on a shopping spree. It was so much fun!
Ben with the cake he picked out. We got him a HUGE cake because they were having a special that was the same price as the smallest one, so being the gal I am that likes free stuff I got the bigger one!
We had so much cake that I decided last minute to invite our good friends over to help us eat it. It was a good cake!
I went to take Ben to ride the train for his birthday but it was closed! Luckily the Saturday before his birthday Grandma and Grandpa Clift came and took him to ride the train, so he wasn't too hurt. We rode on these little rides instead.
Ben is 3!!
Because my stinking blogger puts pictures on backwards and I don't feel like redoing it, we're going to start with the most recent pictures. Alex at archery, he hits bullseyes all the time, has good form, and just loves it.
He really wants to keep doing archery lessons until he can go to competitions. And bonus, if we ever are in a position where we have to hunt our food, Alex will be our guy! :)
Katelyn and her teacher. She is in love with her horse Sonny. She writes about him for school work, draws pictures of him for art. She even got some cute cowgirl boots just to ride him!
Katelyn's first day. Grooming the horse.
Walking the horse out. I rarely get to see Katelyn ride her horse because her lessons start at 9:30 and Alex's archery lessons are at 10:00, so we drop her off watch her for 10 minutes and then drive to Alex's lessons. I feel comfortable leaving Katelyn, but I don't feel comfortable leaving Alex in the middle of nowhere shooting arrows. At least with Katelyn there are a lot of other people around.
Alex's first day with the teacher helping him.
Good form Alex!
We saw a cute little train museum and had to stop because Benjamin just adores trains. It was small, but Ben really enjoyed it. The bigger kids really wished we had gone to the Children's museum instead, and so did I.
We got to ride on a hand car, it went a lot faster than I was expecting, and the kids had a blast! (Pretty much the big kids' only highlight.)
On the way there we stopped because we were talking about the pretty river and Ben couldn't see it and really wanted to get out to see it, so we did. He's pretty much spoiled like that. I love this picture though, classic Grandpa Clift and Ben. Ben tags along with his grandpa wherever he goes, whatever he does. Two peas in a pod.
When Alex turned 8 in June he joined the Cub Scouts, but they take off the summer months from their meetings, so this is of his first Pack meeting where all the different age groups meet together and they hand out awards, do ceremonies, and have a dessert.
Alex got a ton of awards he earned from Cub Scout day camp, and he also earned his Bobcat award and he graduated into the Wolf pack. He got to go up on stage for a ceremony and mom and dad got to paint his face the different symbols. He loves going every week to his activities. So proud of our Cub Scout!
As you can see Katelyn needed braces, pretty badly.
So we got her braces.
And now they're off! All the pain, and all the money was a small price to pay for that beautiful smile! :) She loves her teeth so much now, and she loves that no one makes fun of her anymore. (Aren't kids rude!)
Katelyn wearing her new fall skirt decorating stairs. It took me one day before I tore those down I couldn't stand all those little pumpkins being picked off and all over the stairs all of the time!
My new mirror, it was free from a friend.
Pumpkins from our garden! The fabric pumpkins I made, found the idea on a blog I follow, don't remember which one. Sorry.
Alex.
I made the 2 pillow cases in the back all by myself! 
