Website Updated

For anyone interested, I have posted our Christmas pictures on our website. Click here to see them.

Sausage Rolls are Here! Happiness and Cheer!

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was hungry... This morning, we woke up and ate some of our traditional Denton family Christmas foods. Sausage and ham rolls, monkey bread and fruit. With the exception of the fruit, it all turned out pretty good. We then cleaned the house because Santa does not bring toys to little boys who don't put their current ones away (at least not in our house, that is...). We then made some snickerdoodle cookies for Santa and are having the missionaries over for dinner. We went the easy route and got a couple of pizzas! The boys are all excited for tomorrow and I am sure that they (or Santa) will get no sleep tonight!

Santa Pictures

On Saturday we took the kids to the mall down the street to see Santa. There's not much in this mall anymore. We've heard it's the oldest mall in Indiana. We only had to wait about 10 minutes to see Santa and you can make a donation if you want to. You actually take your own pictures. The kids had fun and we didn't have to wait forever to see Santa. If I had known before this year that they have Santa at that mall we might have taken the kids to see Santa more!

We finally got a good Christmas picture of all the kids!

Santa told Quinn he was asking for too many Legos!

Will didn't have too much to say to Santa. He just wanted a candy cane!

Aiden was very excited to see Santa and tell him what he wanted.

Riley's not quite sure what to think about Santa. At least she didn't scream.

This Year's Christmas Pics

Can I just tell you how frustrated I am right now with Christmas pictures. SO frustrated. Seething. We tried 4 times, with bribery, to get the kids to sit still for some pictures. While we were never able to get "the one", we did get several outakes. Lots of pictures here, but I wanted you to share in my pain. To top it off, once we gave up and chose the least ridiculous of the group, I went to walmart's website to order prints and they kept cropping off the tops of their heads. I thought I would have a massive coronary. I definitely threw quite the hissy fit. Tasha could vouch for that. Merry Christmas!

Doug

Happy Thanksgiving (a couple of weeks late)

Riley on the little carosel at the bowling alley.



Quinn waiting for his ball to make it to the end of the lane.

Will. I'm not really sure what he is doing.

Aiden having lots of fun!



Riley watching her ball go down the ramp.

So I thought I would post some pictures from Thanksgiving. I figured better late never. We went to Memphis to be with Doug's family. It was just Doug's dad and sisters, Denise and Donna. Everyone else had Thanksgiving with their in-laws. We had way too much yummy food. I think there were enough desserts for everyone to have their own. On Saturday we took the kids to see Bolt and then we went bowling with Denise and Donna. We had lots of fun. Riley even bowled this time. She was the only one to break 100! She had lots of help though. Enjoy the pictures.

How many Wills do you have?

Today Aiden and Will had a field trip. We went to Angel Mounds. It is a Native American museum with mounds made by the Indians. I was the parent helper for Will's class and was lucky enough to get to ride the very hot bus. For the most part I stayed with Will's class, but I did spend some time on the walk outside with Aiden. During the bus ride back to school this girl asked, "How many Wills do you have?". I explained that I only have one and that Will has a twin brother in the other 4 year-old class. The boys are in different classes and I think people are just now figuring out that I have twins in different classes. One mom finally asked me last week if they were twins.
Field trips are always interesting. The museum had displays of Indians building the mounds and their homes. The women in the display did not have shirts. One girl asked where their bras were! I think the boys had fun. They got to touch several animal hides and see different weapons and tools that were used by the Native Americans. We might have to take them in the spring when it's warm enough to do the outside part!

Website Updated

For anyone interested, I keep a website for pictures of the kiddos and such. I have recently added pictures from the last three months including more halloween pictures. The website is http://www.freewebs.com/ddenton/.

I also made a tribute to my mother who passed away in September. If you would like to see it, click here.

Enjoy!

Doug

Halloween Spooktacular

Boo!!!!!

Halloween fun was had by all this week! We carved pumpkins Wednesday night. We have started a tradition of laughing maniacally in our best evil scientist laugh (BWA-HA-HA!) as we scoop out the pumpkin brains. Riley even got into it this year.

Everybody make a pumpkin face!

Here are the goblins in their costumes. Quinn was a Jedi, Will was Batman, Aiden was Spideman and Riley was a ballerenia. We also had our annual trick-or-treating with the Holm family. Riley really got into it this year! She was pretty pooped out when we made it home.

Pumpkin Patch

We recently made our annual trip to the Mayse Farm Pumpkin Patch. I think this is the fourth year that we have done this. We always have a lot of fun. There is a hayride to the pumpkin patch, a big corn maze and a small one, a hay bale castle, a scary slide (scary for the parents), and hay bale maze for the little ones. We didn't get the best pictures this year. Aiden was the only one that cooperated with us. Riley wouldn't even look at the camera! Here are some pictures. Enjoy!

The scary slide. It is very steep and fast and there is a mattress at the bottom to catch kids.

The boys in the corn maze.

Riley in the maze. Riley and I got seperated from the boys. This is when we caught up to them.

We always get pics of the kids in front of this to see how much they've grown. Last year Riley wan't even standing.

Will

Aiden


I think Aiden picked the smallest and funniest shaped pumpkin in the patch! (It looks like he is squeezing it)

Will carrying around his pumpkin.

Aiden and Will on the hayride.

Quinn on the scary slide! The kids loved this.

Quinn

Riley climbing over the hay bales instead of going through the maze.