My little baby's growing up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Matthew went to his first day of Preschool this morning! He is going to a preschool at the West Fargo High School. The kids from the Family Consumer Science class are learning about being teachers and stuff like that so they are his teachers and they do a theme and snack and all that fun preschool stuff. It goes for about two hours, so Abby and I will have to go pick him up soon. I can't wait to here about what he did in preschool! And I know what you are all thinking.........No, I didn't cry. One of the other moms did and that almost made me cry, not Matthew.
1st Day Of Preschool!!!!!!!!!!!

Big Brother the Helper!

The other night before bed Matthew was very insistent that he help Abby brush her teeth. It was to cute to not take a picture of!

Pumpkin Carving

This morning Matthew, Abby and mommy carved four pumpkins.

Leaf raking at the lake

On Saturday we went to the lake and helped with lead raking a tree cutting. Matthew did more leaf jumping than raking, and Abby would not go near the pile of leafs! I'm sure that will change next year.
Abby did help rake though. She had to concentrate very hard to do this.
Daddy and Matthew playing the leafs.
Mommy and Abby smiling for the camera.

Apple's in the fall

Last weekend I had my grandma show me how to make applesauce. We needed more apples for the sauce and also for the apple pie filling the Matthew helped Grandma Wanda make. Here are a few pictures of the kids picking apples and also helping cook.
What a nice brother, helping Abby reach an apple.
The bucket is full, now how are we going to get it in the house?

Dear Mr. Garbage Man.......

So the other day I fell asleep on the couch and woke up to Abby tearing apart a cassette tape of Matthews. He of course thought it could be fixed and I tried to tell him differently.After telling him it could notbe fixed and to trow it away he broke down in tears cuz he didn't want the garbage man to crunch it up in the truck. Todd had this great idea to write the garbage man a note. Here is Matthew with the note.

Dear Mr. Grabage man..........Please don't crunch my broken cassette tape. Thankyou, Matthew

New York and Philly

About a week ago I went to New York and Philly with my mom, aunt and cousin. We had about five days to travel between New York and Philly. Here we are with Lady Liberty in the background. We also went to Hershey, Lancaster County and New Jersey. We had no time to rest, because we were trying to get everything we could possibly do done in the short time we had there. All in all it was a fun time.

Matthew's 4th Birthday!

Saturday we celebrated Matthew's 4th Birthday! It just doesn't seem like he can be 4 already! These pictures are a little out of order, but you'll get the just of it. I'll start with the picture above. Matthew decided he wanted to go to Chuckie Cheese for super that night, so we did that. He enjoyed it, but I think the rest of us could have done with out.
Matthew and his Chuckie Cheese Birthday crown.

Ok, now we are back in the right picture order. This is Matthew with his John Deere birthday cake. Grandma Wanda made the cake. Carrott cake, Matthew's favorite.
Matthew opening presents.
What other kind of book would you give someone at there John Deere birthday party?
So, after we were done with the party and Abby had a nap we went bowling. Matthew has been really wanting to go bowling ever since Todd started playing bowling on Facebook of all things!
You can see the excitement in his face and also that he just got a spare all by his self! Way to go Matthew! All in all it was a very busy, fun day! Thanks everyone for helping to make Matthews birthday very special!