Thursday, October 30, 2008

A blast from the past Halloweens!

2007
At the Truck or Treat with a bunch of cousins (Minnie mouse, Jasmine and Batman)

Meliah and Taylor both dressed up as Jasmine!

2006

Aaron as the 6 Flags guy (Do you remember that commercial?)

2005

2004 (Christian and Meliah are the smallest kids there) The rest of them are older cousins!

2002 Aaron and I caught a shark and a huge goldfish!

Happy Halloween!

1 comment:

AaronTara said...

So I loved the past Halloween pics. I remember when the kids were a whale and fish! That was the year I met Aaron (my Aaron of course). I really loved seeing Chelsea as Spongebob! We had a great Halloween... the girls were all jungle animals. As soon as our internet is hooked up I'll post a blog. Miss you guys!

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Families are Forever!
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I sure do love my family!

I sure do love my family!

Our 3 little ones!

Our 3 little ones!
We have been so blessed!!!

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I have been thinking a lot lately of what I need to teach my kids to help them become independant physically, spiritually and mentally so when they turn 18 they will be able to survive on their own. The last 9 years has flown by so quickly I can't believe it. Nine more years and my first child will be old enough to be on his own. That is a real wake up call for a mother who hasn't prepared her children for those important days. I realize that I have gone on way to long without a list of what needs to be learned and done by what age so that my kids will not be horrified when they get out into the world alone. So, I've come up with a list of most everything I can think of that would be important for my kids to know and learn and what ages they should be capable. Of course, every child is different and is capable of different things at different ages. Some learn things faster and are more motivated. Others would like to just live in the home cave for the rest of their lives and have no motivation to do any of it. So, I am including my fairly flexible plan. But if you let too many years slip by, you may need to up the work to fit everything in. I got most of my ideas from a very experienced LDS author (Merilee Boyack) who has raised several children successfully! So, hopefully you find this as helpful as I do!