Scott went to his first High school dance last night. Demari Brown asked him to Winter formal. They have been out a few times and we think she is the sweetest girl. They had alot of fun, dinner, the dance and then ice skating. It's hard to believe our kids our growing up!
In front of our Christmas tree!
Garett and Kacey decided to build a fort in my living room the other day. They used all my pillowes and blankets to create this masterpiece. They had a blast, playing for hours which turned into 2 days. They even talked me into letting them sleep in it on a school night! How could I say no? Even Mika got in on the fun!
Emalie and her best friends Hannah Sandrolini, saw the midnight showing of Twilight the night it came out, and they LOVED it! Mostly because of Edward Cullen:)
As parents we are always finding opportunites for simple teaching moments with are kids. Well last Saturday Kacey wanted to learn how to ride her bike. The kids had taken her training wheels off months ago and she hasn't been able to ride. She came to me and asked me if I could teach her. I told her I had lots of cleaning to do, but I would help later. Well I guess she went to everyone else in the family and asked them the same thing. So Kacey decided she would try to teach herself. I don't know how long she was out front, but she stuck with it until she taught herself to ride. I was feeling bad about not helping her but at the same time so proud of her for not giving up! Way to go Kacey!!
Now we can't get her off the bike, I've got to get her a helmet. Sunday morning she was the first one up and decided to go ride and she didn't tell anyone. Would hate for anything to happen to her.
Garrett and Kacey
Garrett showing Kacey how to do a Pop a wheelie. (I did't quite snap the picture in time!)
A picture of Kacey I forgot to post. The kindergartners were the 101 Dalmatians for there schools annual Halloween Parade of Characters. 
Our Ward Halloween party was Saturday night. Every year the Hastings in our ward host this great event,which by the way gets bigger every year, cause its opened to the public. I did'nt recognize alot of the people that were there! Its always so much fun, good food,good friends and lots of fun games and booths for the kids. Kacey is Hannah Montanna this halloween, which she has been planning since the summer. We had such a great time. Sorry ther are no pics of my boys I could never pin them down long enough to take a picture.
One of the more favorite attractions! We stood in line for a while for this ride!
Kacey trying to take a bite out of a donut. Notice how she is trying to keep her wig from falling off! Those dang halloween wigs you have to buy, and the kids hate to wear them cause they fall off and are sooo itchy!
Sorry guys, Russ and I didn't dress up for this Halloween party! Notice russ's hair is starting to come back in.
Emalie's cute friend Jessie came with us. Cute cowgirls, don't ya think? They helped paint faces.
We were invited to a halloween party in are neighborhood Saturday night. If you know Russ and I at all you know this is not one of our favorite things to do, we do not like dressing up at all! It was a Hollywoood Celebrity theme, and Saturday afternoon we were still clueless on what we were going to be or if we even wanted to go at all. On our way to the costume store russ came up with the idea to be Dr. Phil, which I thought was such a graet idea. He said if I'm going to do this I'll have to shave my head. I couldn't believe he would go to such great lengths for this party. We had alot of fun finding everything for our costumes, and had a great time at the party. Everyone did a great job dressing up. I'm glad we decided to go. Even if it meant sacrificing Russ's hair!! Don't you think he makes a great Dr. Phil?
This year Scott turned 16. Here he his with his new license plate that says skootz(his nickname)
Nice Chad...
Opening presents at Grandma's
Kacey love the Fancy Nancy books so this year for her 5th birthday I got her the doll, dog, books, and dress-ups. Here she is dressed like Fancy Nancy.
The doll...
Scott dressed like Fancy Nancy. How cute!!
To celebrate we went to Chuck E. Cheese with our family and Grandma and Grandpa LeSueur.
Our new family picture! Jordan was married this summer. This is Danny Searle our new son-in -law. He is so nice and sweet, especially to Jordan. We are getting so old!
It was only a 20 min. surgery. Kacey Just waking up wondering what the heck just happened! Not so fun any more. She's home now doing great, would'nt know she just had her tonsils out!
Right before getting wheeled into the OR. Notice how happy she looks!
The nurse gave her a toy. She thought this was the BEST! Little did she know what would be ahead.
Kacey in her cute tigers scrubs
Kacey had her tonsils taken out on friday. The golfball size tonsils made it hard for her to sleep. And hard for her parents to sleep because she would snore so loud! She was a tough little girl!
