Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you have a wonderful day giving thanks for all you've been given.  We're celebrating with 50+ Hofwegens and Friends.  Should be a good time!  Rumor has it the weary travelers from So Cal arrived late, late last night.  We're so glad they made it.

Happy Birthday, Holly Joy!

We love you!!! 

Let the birthday fun begin

Holly got to celebrate her birthday at school today. And the festivities were super big because she's in class this year with Kaiden and they share a birthday. Their birthdays aren't until next week but they get all of next week off (and the rest of this week was super busy at school). Eric and Kathy had lunch at the special birthday table with Kaiden, Holly and they each got to choose a couple friends.

A little of this, a little of that

Just another Saturday morning. Thanks for breakfast, Uncle Dave!

This photo cracks me up! They're dividing up the trains, they take turns choosing until they're all gone. Joey is pretty much running the show! This is the morning he told Tyler he wasn't allowed to match him! (see further down in post for details)

Mia has been into folding the laundry and putting it away. Something I could get used to! Thanks, MIA!!!!

And one from a couple weeks ago....the day after Halloween!

And just a few funnies from the last little while.

I gave Tyler some Peach yogurt for lunch and after he took a bite I asked "How is it?" and he replied "I was afraid you were going to ask that."

Then Lucas asked for a banana and I said I only had 1 left and it was brown and spotted. He replied "It's just decayed." I asked if he still wanted it and he said "of course, it's just decayed!"

A few weeks ago we were out on a walk and there were lots of leaves on the ground. Mia asked "Why are leaves symmetrical?" Hmmmmm, good question! And then we went on to wonder "Are all leaves symmetrical?"

One morning I was on the couch reading and Tyler and Joey had just woken up and were coming up the stairs talking. Joey was telling Tyler he wasn't allowed to match him today. They don't often match anymore, at least I don't make them match, once in a while they'll just pick out the same clothes so I found this particularly funny...what made today different?!?

Guess Who?

This one was to good to pass up! I used to catch fish, too! :) Thanks, Dad...for the trip down memory lane and for taking me fishing! My Dad has a new toy...it scans slides and makes them into .jpgs...so we've been reminiscing.

What letter?

Show and Tell

Every Friday

3 items starting with the same letter

The letter X about killed me but this week was a little easier!

And then more fish! Heading into winter, Eric has done his job of hunter and gatherer. :)

Halloween

Here's a little peek at what everyone was dressed up as last night. We didn't get a great group photo for a couple reasons. One was that someone :) was changing their costume about 4 times before they found one they were happy with. (and yes, Mom, that person did wear the costume you sent them to the fall festival on Wednesday night at church, so all was not in vain). And speaking of the church fall festival, I had my camera with me all night and didn't take 1 picture...what in the world! Anyways, Mia was a sailor, Holly was a Dutch Girl and the boys were cowboys. I may have ratted out the guilty party there but oh well!
The mother load was once again acquired at Uncle Dave's (full size Cadberry candy bars...sorry Erin, Lee, Brett, Lindsey, Michael and Parker...we'd love to share!) Actually, they got the mother load everywhere they went. It seemed every house we went to a goody bag prepared just for them awaited them.

On the go

The boys had their first field trip on Friday to a family farm, mostly lots of very cool horses. I found the discrepancy in their pumpkin sizes rather funny. Joey went a little on the conservative side, it's a cute little pumpkin. Lucas' while the picture doesn't show it, it's a little bigger than Joey's, a nice size. Then there is Tyler who's eyes were WAY bigger than than his muscles but he had to have it! :P

Holly had her last game of the season. She played great and they won...THEY WON!!! Eric captured some great moments and a classic Holly look!

Mia also had her last game, it was the CHAMPIONSHIP game and we WON! It was a fun game and a great season, until....
...it was time to hand out the trophies. There were 5 girls left and the guy handing them out looked in his box and it was empty!! (thank you Wendi, for the priceless photos, she caught them at the moment he looked up and said they were all gone!) But all was not lost, he found them in the wrong box later in the day so they were happy again! But it was a little dicey for a while there. :)

We topped off the weekend by carving pumpkins Saturday night. Good fun!

Fish & Games

We had a great weekend over here. Grandma and Grandpa VH had the "little cousins" over Saturday night for a sleepover (L, T, J, Emma and Lily!) so Eric and I had a night with just the girls. Instead of going to a movie (since there was NOTHING good out for the 4 of us to see) we bought a new game, Pictureka. It is A LOT of fun! It's kind of like the "Where's Waldo" books in a game version. If you need a Christmas gift idea for kids 6 and up this would be perfect. (and it was on sale last week at Target, it still may be, too)Sunday morning Eric, Mia, Holly and Uncle Dave got up at the crack of dawn with frost still on the ground to go fishing. They had a great time and great success as well! I had a couple hours to myself so I made myself get up when they fisherpeople left and enjoyed my coffee in the quiet. Then I went out with my camera (I'm turning into my Father!) because it was a very cool morning, as the sun was rising it was very, very foggy.
Then I headed to G & G to gather up the boys and head to church. It was a good day!

What's the big deal?

Seriously, what's the big deal! Check out this video by clicking HERE. A friend of mine forwarded this to me, thanks Jill! :) And then Eric and I were watching the news last night and it was on AGAIN! Either it was a slow news day yesterday or we slipped through the cracks 5 years ago!! I'm not bitter, trust me, we get ENOUGH attention. :)

Pumpkin Patch!

The kids had a couple days off of school last week so we made use of one of the beautiful days and headed to the pumpkin patch.

I know, way to many pictures but I couldn't resist!

A mystery...solved

One of my kids (I can't remember who) alerted me to the fact that there was a bite out of the block of Tillamook. I dismissed it at the time because it wasn't a big deal. Later, I opened the fridge and saw the bite and then laughed when I saw the bag it was in. So, someone must have taken the time to take the bite them put the cheese back in a new bag, but funny that it says "To Tyler" on it. I may have to investigate a little further and ask Tyler if he realizes someone left him a little gift. :)
And it was Spot Day at pre-school today....my very last Spot Day. One of their teachers LOVES spots so each year they have a whole day designated to spots. Click HERE if you want to see Holly on spot day a few years ago. I suggested to these guys that we paint their faces, too, and they looked at me like I was nuts! At least we got the shirts on them, right!

edited: found my mouse but he wants to remain anonymous! :)

Wahoo, we have a W and other fun stuff!

We've had a busy weekend over here but I think, quite possibly, the most exciting news of all is Holly's little soccer team finally got a win! We finally scored our first goal and held on to win 1-0!!! Mia's team is doing great, we had another good game on Saturday and remain undefeated!
I handed my camera off to a couple professionals and they captured a ton of great shots for me. Thanks Betsy and Shona! Friday Holly had a field trip to the library and the fire station. The most exciting part of the whole trip, I think, is when the fire fighters got an aid call and had to leave with the sirens on!

Friday night we went to the football game. Alec has his "touchdown" moves perfected however, he didn't need to use them. The Lyncs are doing about as good as the Seahawks and the Huskies, or maybe a little better. Not a good year for football in the state of Washington! :PThe other great part of our weekend was we had a couple visitors! Ben and Betsy were up from Southern CA with the Ontario Chr. cross county team. Ben's a coach and Besty came to chaperon. The really fun part is Betsy was in our youth group almost 15 years ago when Eric an I lived in CA and through the magic of Facebook we were reconnected earlier this year. She let us know they were coming and we were so glad that were able to stay with us a couple days. Our kids had so much fun with them and wouldn't leave them alone! They were VERY tolerant of our crazy, wild kids!

Perfect fall day

After church this morning we decided to pack a lunch and take off for the mountains. We made it up to Chain Lakes, had our lunch and then took off on an awesome hike! Picture Lake and Mount Shuksan
No trip up to Baker is complete without a stop in Glacier for ice cream!