Fall 2011

I composed this post months ago but am just now getting around to posting it. I am such a slacker and NOT into blogging lately.

We have been bbq-ing a lot before it gets too cold.

Johnny got tubes in his ears....so long ear infections!! The poor kid has had constant ear infections for the last year.

The boys carved some pumpkins.

The Skinner Crew. Batman, Robin, and a ladybug.

Downtown Trick-or-treating in Athens

Robin..or as Johnny says "Wah-min!"

Dane made hawaiin style pizza and Johnny made pep and cheese:) They were super yummy!


Ryan took Dane to a hockey clinic which Dane thought was the coolest thing ever! He got to put all the gear on and the OU hockey team taught all the kids how to skate, needless to say, now he wants to be a hockey player.

All suited up and ready to get on the ice.

I Love all of the colors during this season. I have never seen anything like it before. The bright reds, oranges, pinks, and yellows are amazing! These pictures don't do it justice.

Birthday Girl!

WOW!!

I can't believe Roxy is 1! She is such a good baby and loves everybody, especially her brothers. Our family is so in love with our baby girl.

Her stats:
80th percentile for height
90th percentile for weight

*She is on her way to becoming a walker.
-Ry had been out of town and surprised us all by showing up at our house a couple of hours early because he was able to slip onto an earlier flight. No more than a half hour after he got home Roxy decided to take her first steps. We were all so excited and shocked bc she just does NOT seem to care about walking. I am so glad that Ryan was able to be here for her first steps since he has missed so many "firsts" over the last couple of years due to medical school and traveling.

*She is the biggest copy cat.
-if she hears someone cough, she coughs; if one of her brothers screams, she scream (and then usually they all continue to scream and giggle and out-scream eachother which DRIVES ME CRAZY!)
-During family prayer I always glance over at her and she folds her arms and bows her head like everybody else.

*She waves "hi" to everybody she sees.

*She has crazy hair that is long in some spots and short in other spots so I have had to get creative with it since she won't wear headbands anymore.

*She climbs the stairs faster than anyone in the family and just learned how to come down them on her own:)

*She loves her new forward facing car seat.

*She LOVES to dance and bounce on her bum, constantly. If she hears a beat she stops what she is doing and starts dancing.

*She climbs up the luv sac, over the arm of the couch and then dives back the other way over the arm of the couch and does a nose-dive down the luv sac.

*If someone is laying on the ground, she can't help but tackle them (especially if it's Dane- she LOVES Dane).

Now onto recent pics of our cute, growing baby girl.


the crazy hair I mentioned.



My Halloween baby:)

Fathers and Sons

Ryan took the boys on the Fathers and Sons campout with our Stake and boy did my boys have a BLAST!

They enjoyed 24 hours of being manly men. They did everything from HIKING...

...TO HANGING OUT....

..TO FISHING.....

...TO GETTING DIRTY....

... TO GETTING LOST... (haha...jk boys don't ever get lost;)

...TO BONDING...(Skinner boys' version of camping- in the car:)

Ryan made sure to bring some entertainment(computers, tvs, dvds..) and plenty of other ways (mainly food) to bribe our 2 year old to lie down when it was time for bed. Smart man:)

...TO LOTS OF THIS.....(btw- cutest little bum ever!!!)

...AND OF COURSE EATING! (Breakfast with the Stake)

And I got to stay home with this little nugget (which was actually quite relaxing)! I used to think that having 1 kid was so tiring but now that I have 3 kids I realize how COMPLETELY WRONG I was! ha! (this is the cheesy face I get when I tell her to say cheese)
A couple of the wives got together and had a fun night. We made a HUGE, ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT salad bar and went to town eating as we talked and giggled like little school girls. Oh how I love GNO's:)

Fun Homes Videos

Here are just a couple of videos that we took of the kids over the last 3 months that I wanted to share (especially with the grandparents)

Dane taking Roxy for a spin at Ryan's sister's house. They have an amazing basketball court in their house that Dane will just do his own thing in for hours!






Dane discovered a new game....only we weren't around to catch him the first time he decided to do it! Luckily he didn't run into anything or go into the road (He knows never to do it without us to catch him now)



Johnny wanted in on the fun!

Athens

People watching! Both of my boys have been fearless climbers and this little nugget is no different. No matter how many times she falls off of the couch or love sac onto her face, she continues to climb them without thinking twice.
Probably not the best approach at going down the stairs.

View from the freeway. We live about 2 min from this beautiful walking/bike path. It's a golf course and practically Ohio University's campus.
This is a little lake that is pretty close to our house. It has a sandy beach and rental boats.

We went to a pool last week and the boys had a blast being back in the water since they practically lived in the water when we lived in Arizona.

Anytime I give the boys pretzel sticks, they put them inbetween their fingers and pretend to be Wolverine. They have started to do it with pretty much anything and everything that will make them look like the Wolverine claws.

Johnny's face cracks me up in this picture.

We are always spotting deer in our backyard and they are not afraid of people which makes me find of nervous. I also saw a wild turtle in our backyard (Ryan thinks it was a snapping turtle), and we see groundhogs all over town which is so crazy to me.

Lots of new choppers