Clausen Thanksgiving

We celelbrated our Clausen Thanksgiving this Saturday in Holstein at the Country Club. Maura age 8 snapped this pic of us, not bad:) Cora and Kellen Clausen (#3 of Katie and Mike's) Our girls just adore him!! The girls in new outfits from Grandma Sharon. Just a few of the cousins Kendal and Karlen belly up to the bar Cora had a lot of fun playing with Great Aunt Florence's walker Our newest Clausne addition, Ty Clausen! Katie and Mikes's #4 and as Katie says their last:)

Little Goof Balls

We got pig tails in Cora's hair!! She loves when we dress her up and say oooh lala. she gets all shy and puts her head down. super cute! I took Kendal to the musical play in town Cinderella! It was sooo good, It was our first little date just her and I. She did great and loved the play. Then on Saturday we went to Seusical, a Dr. Seuss musical at the Lakes Art Center, she was a good girl for everything! this little wig was apart of Addison's big sister gift of dress up stuff. Cora looked pretty funny in it! Cora loves to push her baby to keep up with her big sister. We have been having a lot of fun with the girls! Cora is really starting to become a busy toddler! she is into everything,she climbs everything and eats everything! Kendal is growing up super fast 2 going on 12 and all GIRL! wow we are in for it. she only wears dresses again:)

Baby Bobcats

We got to play with baby bobcats today! There is a family south of town that takes in animals for the DNR and they found these bobcats when they were newborns without a mom so they have been taking care of them for the past 7 months old. They are keeping them through the winter then letting them go. They were the softest cutest animals ever! Cora was giving Ruger some love today after church, yes we are outside in November without coats on in Iowa!! Our little ham bones, loving the camera! On Friday I had two more kids for the day, Rylee (pushing Cora) who is Kendal's age soon to be 3 this month and her 9 week old brother, yes 4 under 3..It went really good the only major isssue was Kendal threw up mid morning, Thank goodness Cora and baby Cole were sleeping. Not sure what the deal was she had no fever and kept on playing like nothing happened. Nobody else sick in the house so we will keep our fingers crossed.

Trick Or Treat

We were in Holstein for the Halloween weekend for opening pheasant season. The Holstein business's had some trick or treating Friday night so the girls had a little pre party for the real deal:) I have a few different costumes so Cora got to be a lady bug the first night. Kendal had options but of course she was determined to be a Princess! This picture says it all...We are in trouble:) This is a picture of our little princesses while they were happy. We went to the Murphy's for a Halloween/pheasant fry party and the girls played hide n seek but Kendal and Lilly got stuck in the bathroom for about 15 minutes and could not get out. They both were a little scared and had a lot of tears but all was good when they got back downstairs and had some more treats. Kendal playing in cousin Karlen's boots. Cora flirting with Luke This photo is prett funny, Girls in the back boys in the front:) This is how we travel when we are all in the truck. Ruger gets shotgun.

Girls Just wanna have fun

The girls are growing up so fast and really starting to play more with eachother. These are just a few pics of the girls the past few nights. Cora is into climbing so tonight Kendal wanted to be just like her for the picture. Kendal just being a goof ball with her funny faces. Dentist gotta love this, Cora loves to carry a toothbursh and toothpaste around all of the time.

Another Cold Weekend

Well I think we saw the sun for maybe an hour this weekend. We decided to brave the weather anyway and headed to Lakefield MN just 20 minutes north of us to a pumpkin patch ( The same one The Johnson's went to) The girls had a blast and Kendal could not get enough of the Goats:) These next few photos are of the girls after a long day of fun and fresh air:) We got to go visit some friends of ours that just had a new baby boy Beckett last week. Kendal loved holding the new baby! The girls with Syndey, Baby Beckett's Big sister, reading on the couch while we watched the exciting Hawkeye game! Pictres of us enjoying the day at the Patch

Oh Know!!

I got a call from our fellow Blogger Juli this AM she went into preterm labor last night and had to go to Sioux Falls by ambulance. They could not stop her contractions. Everyone is doing ok but she has to stay there for sure through the weekend. They did an Ultrasound on the little guy and weighed about 5lbs so still just a little peanut. She is only 35 weeks so it would be best if he could stay inside of mamma for another week. I just wanted to let you all to know so you could remember her and the family in your thoughts and prayers!! I will keep you posted if anything new happens. This is just a pic I got of the girls in their Halloween PJ's Cora loves to get into Ruger'sfood and water dish... oh the mess... the funny thing is Kendal never touched it but this little busy body loves to be in it. Today she turned the corner with this evil look on her face:) I also need to share a lovely incident that occured to me last Friday, For all of you mothers I know this prob. has happened to you:) So last Friday night I am alone with the girls like every Friday night b/c Chad goes to the football games to be on the sideline for the team. I am giving the girls a bath and yes it happens... Cora poops..Kendal screams mom she is pooping so I grab Kendal out then Cora. Cora continues to poop on the Floor so I try to put her over the toilet..oh know she will have non of that, she gets stiff as a board and poops on me. Kendal says "Mom this is TERRIBLE" I just star laughing so hard I start to cry they look at me like I m crazy, I tell Kendal we need to stay calm. So I go to put Kendal in our other bathtub and Cora follows us pooping..All ended ok after a few glasses of wine I got it all cleaned up:)