Happy Thanksgiving!

The kids made placecards :)

etc...

Just a bit of catch up, few from when my mom was here and a few recents...

Someone gave E a build-a-bear gift card for her birthday. This was so up her alley.

She kissed the heart,

put it in her kitty,

gave the kitty a bath,

and dressed the kitty (she chose undies instead of shoes).

Meet Nysa (nice-uh, a name she created).

a winter day fort

so sweet

seconds later

we just haven't been happy: teething+pinkeye+cold = boo

does anyone else think this potato looks like a heart?

So this is a little long, but it's been a while since I posted a clip.

5 years of E

My girl is 5. FIVE!! Craziness. So her day started with a breakfast of choice which was baked oatmeal.

she enjoyed it thoroughly

She had preschool that day where she was the birthday princess. It also happened to be the field trip to the ice cram shop day...she lucked out. It was there (above) where they sang to her. When they got back to class she passed out her birthday treats.

That evening I made the birthday dinner she requested: chicken, broccoli, corn, sweet potato fries. We had brownies and ice cream before we opened some presents from us and my mom. We then watched a slide show I made from birth to 5yrs. V kept yelling at it, which didn't match up with the vision I had of emotionally reminiscing, but we still enjoyed it.

Saturday was her fairy party with a few friends. I got a little craft crazy. I made mushrooms and wands that I hid and turned into a game. I also made wings and tutus that the girls happily wore and frolicked around in. They took all these things home as well as a few other goodies in baskets. The girls were great and really seemed to enjoy being fairies. There was one who would actually say things like "do the other fairies get to...?" My mom was a huge help in finishing some of the projects, as were the others who stayed at the party. thanks to all!

I'm officially NOT a cupcake decorator, but they were yummy!

The hunter has come home....

9points 175lbs

So usually I'm excited when Den gets his deer because that means no more evenings away from us. However I was counting on winging dinner the next couple of nights without him. Ah well....seeing him this happy is worth it. Spaghetti?

He is so happy, and life gets so busy, I don't want to miss it!



Since we are the weirdos who don't do halloween and I kept her home from preschool since they were having a halloween party (at a church! don't get me started, don't i sound like a nazi?) we made a variety of carmel apples. Huge mess, but fun.



Ballet class, I took these through a window.

*you may enlarge the image by clicking on it (you know who you are:)


saw this while at a light, drew me in....

more of fall

Last Sunday we went to Uncle Dwayne's and Aunt Abby's for a get together that they've been having for the past few years.

The girls with the hostess, and I believe that host dwayne is storming off because they didn't let boys in the picture.

chocolate cupcake face

she has always had pumpkins for the kids to paint, E's favorite thing. She wanted me to call abby to make sure that she would be doing this.

mine was pretty, think?

Instead of going to the Halloween parade we took our kids to the park. A very cool park that looks like a castle and they are always asking if we can go there but it's 30min away.

missed the happy moment here (well v was happy)