We went to The Kohler's home last night for Cookies with Santa with our moms of multiples group. It was so fun and Santa was wonderful. He came in a smart car with deer antlers on top and Christmas lights, Too Funny. Of course the kids all wanted to know, where was his sled. The kids had a great time and I got to hold some babies. The Kohler's ALWAY make everyone feel welcome in their home. This family goes far and beyond to make sure our kids have fun. Thank you so much Kohler Family.

Lots of different things.

In the last few weeks we have done a few things like play in the leaves, make sugar cookies, and the biggest thing, my girls got there hair cut off. Ok well the boys got theres cut too, but they always have short hair. Here are some pictures for the events:

Isabella-(front)

Isabella-(back)

Madison-(front)

Madison-( back)



Rileigh-(back)

Rileigh-(front)

The Wizard of Oz Munchkin(Mickey Carroll)

The school did a Family Reading Night last week and they had Mickey Carroll an original munchkin from the movie Wizard Of Oz. He is going to be 90 in June. It was so nice of him to come to our school and sit thru hours of pictures. I bet he was so tired when he got home. I sure was. It was so cute he brought ruby red slippers like Dorothy wore in the movie and let all the kid hole them. Mine were so excited about the red sparkly shoes. Her are some pictures of the night:

Abigail's 7th Birthday

It's November already, so that mean another Otten birthday. Abigail had her birthday party at our house. We planed to have bonfire, but seeing that it was the coldest day, I decided we should stay in. So I cleaned out the garage which took over a week and blew up a bounce house inside. The kids had a blast. Here are pictures of the party:

Halloween 2008

So this Halloween I have 3 beautiful princesses, hulk, spiderman, batman, a monster bride, and a regal princess(whatever that means)lol. Well we are back from trick or treating and I am very tired. The kids did great at walking and staying out of the street. We didn't do many houses since last year we got like 10lbs of candy and I didn't want that in the house this year. So here are some pictures of the kids:

RileighMadisonIsabellaTylerJacobJoshuaAbigailHannah

I'm a blog slacker.

Sorry it has taken so long to keep up with this blog. I have been having computer issues. I will try harder to keep it updated better.

ZOO trip

We finally went to the zoo. The kids have been asking all summer, but I hate to be out in the heat with 8 kids. They had no school on Friday due to an inservice day so I called my mom and told her we were picking her up to go to the zoo. I didn't take the stroller or a wagon. The kids did great walking, we only stayed about 3 hours. I told them we would go back again to walk around the other part we missed. They were so excited to see the animals, Rileigh was a bit sad because there was no panda bear. The other day we were watching the news and the kids seen the part where the polar bear got ahold of a lady at some zoo and held her against the cage while biting her leg. So the kids were kinda freaked out about going to the zoo and kept asking if the animals were gonna bite there legs. I was telling them no the zoo has gates and that lady got to close. The funny part was when we were walking around the zoo and I said oh come here to see the polar bears and some were like no way we don't want our legs bite. It is so funny that they can remember EVERYTHING that happens and I can't remember what we have for dinner. Here are some pictures from the zoo.