Maicee's birthday party

I don't think I took any pictures on Maicee's real birthday.  But I got plenty of her birthday party.  She had a Tinkerbell themed birthday party.

 

This is her butterfly cake, that she insisted on having.

Ants on a log, that no one ate

Lady bug cheese and crackers.  Thanks Richelle for the food ideas!

Presents!

The kids making Tinkerbell friendship bracelets

Maicee pouting, of course

The donut game

Kerrigan

Brooklyn

Ava

Nice donut face, Ava

Kirsten

Luke

Serenity

Hailey

Rhianna

We just love Ava

Opening presents

And this is the day we decorated our tree, and "Buddy" the elf came to stay with us for the holidays.

Kyson just loves this Minnie Mouse

So handsome

Kyson and his Minnie.

Tomorrow baby sister joins our family.  Wish me luck!

A little bit of Halloween

I didn't take many pictures at Halloween.  I know, I'm a slacker.  Oh well.

 

Maicee was a witch

Of course we went trick-or-treating with cousins Kerrigan (the pirate) and Colton (the pirate parrot)

Kyson wore his costume for like 2 seconds, I'm lucky I got a picture of it.

Yeah, he's a turd.

So cute!

September and October happenings

 

We bought a basketball hoop at a garage sale this summer, and Kyson loves playing with it. He's actually pretty good.



 

Slam dunk! 

I love his face in this one.  He has this much fun every time he plays with it.

He hardly ever misses!

So, I went shopping with my SIL one day, and decided to get Kyson a sucker.  I got what I believed would be the least messiest sucker.  This was after I wiped his face 3 times.  He definitely enjoyed the sucker!

So one day I started the bathtub for the kids.  Then I got their clothes all ready.  I called for Kyson, but couldn't find him anywhere upstairs.  The gate was shut so I knew he had to be up there somewhere.  I called his name again, and thought I heard him in their room.  Went and looked and he still wasn't in there.  I looked in their bathroom twice, but never looked in the tub (the tub is behind the door).  I told Maicee to start looking for him.  She came giggling into my room, where I was searching the closet, and said he was in the tub in his jammies.  Sure enough, I go in there and there is Kyson.  I guess he got a little impatient with me and just crawled in the tub himself.

He was having a blast!

This is Maicee's Halloween costume this year.  We went to a fall carnival at Dan's school, which is always tons of fun.  I brought Kyson's costume, but I don't think Dan likes it much because he wouldn't put it on him.  He's Frankenstein.

These are Maicee's butterfly wings.  The balloon guy they have there every year is amazing!

Oh Soccer...

Maicee started soccer.  She likes to run around and kick the ball, but she doesn't like doing them together.  And she gets distracted really easily, just like her dad.  Her first game was last week, and at one point during the game, she even had her coach distracted and staring off at the birds in the distance.  She says she has lots of fun, though.  She sure is cute!

This is right before the game started, when her team is supposed to be having a group huddle.  Maicee is #2, walking away from the team.

Here she is at least trying to stay with the team.

Wow, she actually went after the ball!

Here the coach is talking to the team, and Maicee is rocking her imaginary baby.

Sorry this picture is blurry, but she got to kick it off!

She's supposed to be kicking off here.  Looks like the other team isn't ready, though.

This is what she was like most of the game. 

And this is what happened when she went for the ball.  Her fingers got stepped on.  She quickly got up and was back in the game, though.
 





And this is just a random picture of the kids playing with dad after a long day at the dr.'s office.                                   



Pretty School

Wow.  Today is a big day for this big girl.  She started pre-school.  She has been so excited for so long to go to school.  She keeps calling it "pretty school."  When I was little, I thought it was "police school".  

 

Anytime I ask her to smile, she looks like she's in pain.

Her big girl back pack.

Walking into Mrs. Cathy's.

She was so excited to go in, I barely got a picture of her by her name.



So friends, I hope I will be better at blogging.  My computer had to be completely wiped clean, and I still can't figure out how to download pictures.  I'm still not sure how I got these ones on here!

Ha ha!

We saw this commercial shortly after we bought our van.  This is our exact van!

Some new stuff...

Someday I aspire to be like my friend Beth.  She has 2 jobs, 3 kids, and yet still manages time for blogging several times a week.  She even blogs with pictures!  I know it's been a while since I've blogged, but I really do have a good excuse.  Kyson started walking a couple of weeks ago, so I run around trying to keep up with him.  Maicee is constantly on the go.  She starts gymnastics tomorrow, soccer next week, and school at the end of this month.  Oh, and we bought a new car.  Not just any car, we got a minivan.  A swagger wagon, to be exact.  For those of you not "cool", that's a Toyota Sienna.  I really dreaded getting a minivan, but really like this one.  I don't feel like I'm driving a minivan at all.  And why did we get such a big car?  Well, because baby Heilmann #3 is on her way.  Yep, that's right, we are expecting another baby.  Maicee is super excited to have a baby sister.  Her official due date is Dec. 14, but my dr. doesn't want me to have a "highway baby", and wants to start me at 39 weeks, if she hasn't come yet.  She always has her feet and her hands in front of her face, so I don't have any really good pictures of her.  So yes, that's why I've been slacking with blogging.  Looks like I'm going to be sick all 9 months with this one, also.  That's okay, it's totally worth it.