Thank You for Thanksgiving

Ok, well I realize that it is almost Christmas, but better late than never (you know who ever coined that phrase was probably a procrastinator). =) Anyway, we had Thanksgiving at Mom and Dad's house. Andrae (a friend from church) came over and we all had a great time. We played Uno and Chicken Trail. Now my kids are old enough to play chicken trail. It was so awesome, the torch has been passed! =) Aaron was with Dad almost constantly helping him. Mom and I baked for 2 days (Actually she started even before I got up there). I think that we could have fed a small army. It was a lot of work and I am still tired, but I loved it. The christmas tree was a crazy problem. Mom and I tried 3 times to get these stupid lights to work, which was really hilarious, but we could not do it. We finally had to break down and go get some more at walmart. But before we left I had to take a picture of the tree in all of its "glory" so that we could have fond memories. =)So fun! It was really relaxing to go up there. Thanks Mom and Dad for letting us go up there.This is a shmorgas board of our festivities. There are 45 pictures of the awsomeness! Have a wonderful week!

Halloween Fun

Here are some pictures that mom took of our Halloween.Doesn't Rebekah look so much older? It makes me sad. But those are her friends Emily and Megan from Westlink Church of Christ that are holding the balloons. It was a lot of fun. If you cannot tell from the pictures Rebekah was a sailor, Alyssa was Cleopatra, Aaron was a ghostbuster, and Jacob was spiderman. Hope you all had a great Halloween.

Wicked

Richard took me to go see Wicked on Halloween. My parents were gracious enough to babysit the kids while we were gone. They also got the kids ready for Halloween so that when we came back we could just leave. The play was absolutely incredible. If you haven't seen it, it would definitely recommend it. Thank you Leann for letting me borrow your dress. It was just a great time!!

Adventures in Pumpkin Carving

Carving four pumpkins can get very time consuming and a tad dangerous. I broke down and bought one of those pumpkin carving kits in order to be safer while carving. However, Richard broke one of the knives in the first pumpkin he started. So he tried to make it work and ended up cutting himself. So that was the end of that knife. I really didn't want to use a big butcher knife, but that is exactly what ended up happening. I got cut with a knife, but did not bleed. So we all ended up keeping all of our fingers. I thought that worked out well! =) Jacob has a bat on his pumpkin, Aaron has a vampire, Alyssa's says "boo" and is supposed to look like a mummy, and Rebekah made a kind of Animae character. Oh, Aaron also has a white pumpkin that is "captain underpants". It is from school for his book report. I thought that they all turned out really well. I will be taking more pictures of the kids in their costumes. Enjoy your day everyone!

My 33rd Birthday

Today is my birthday!! Richard got me the best birthday present. He got me and him tickets to "Wicked" on Halloween! For those of you who don't know, this is a musical that is about the witches from Oz before Dorothy. It is going to be so much fun. So now I think that I need to get a new outfit too! =) We will go in the afternoon and then be back so that we can take the kids trick or treating. Also today for my birthday we are going to go out to eat. I am not sure where we are going yet. I also had to throw a picture in of my diploma from graduating college. I just got it in the mail yesterday. Have a wonderful day!

Chestnut

Yep, we got a new baby. His name is Chestnut and he is 7 weeks old. He is so fun. He is not to impressed with Jasmine, but he tolerates her. Chestnut loves people and is always wanting to be by us. Of course it is not so fun when it is the middle of the night and he wakes us up by playing with our hair! =) However, he is potty trained so we don't have to worry about that issue. He is so precious.

Fall Festival

Saturday was Fall Festival in Goddard. Which means that there is a parade and little booths that you can go and buy stuff at. Leslie came with me and her son Jerod and daughter Megan. Then we also had another of Rebekah's friend go, Emily. Leann and Ryan also came with the kids. I think that we had a perfect spot this year because we got a ton of candy and there were not too many people who were around us. The kids had a great time. Then afterward the kids played a few games. Alyssa and Aaron got some awesome baloon things made for them. Of course Jacob was pouting becaue he wouldn't stay in line so I made him go in the back of Aaron. That just made it worse so he pouted some more and wouldn't stay in line. So then he was upset we were leaving and he didn't get a balloon. However, everything before then was going very well. I bought some strawberry jalepeno jelly!! MMMMMMMM! It is so good and spicy!! The boys rode on this little train that went around a few blocks of Goddard. I saw quite a few people there that I knew. Richard was not able to go because he had too much homework. Devin was gone at a NASCAR thing. So Ryan was the only husband that went. Poor Ryan! Hope your weekend was as fun.