Thanksgiving Treats

I had fun this year making pies- one apple pie for a Pie Night we were invited to the night before Thanksgiving and a pecan pie that I brought to the Thanksgiving dinner we were invited to. (I was pretty proud of the crust on that apple pie!)I also included a shot of the cute turkeys Emma and her friends made at Joy School when it was at my house the week of Thanksgiving.

Guess who?

So, we have a tradition of taking a picture of the babies at 2 months with this same blanket. See if you can guess who is who: (the answer is at the bottom- so don't scroll all the way down if you want to guess!)














Answer: Arianna, Emma, Grant

Halloween Grinch

I guess if there were such thing as a Halloween Grinch, that would be me. I suppose I am not a total Grinch. Instead of my heart being 2 sizes too small it is just one size too small. The last couple of years for Halloween we have just gone to the Trunk or Treat at the Church, which I have been fine with. This year, we had planned on going to a Halloween party of a friend and I would have been great with that (Kenneth says I live for parties). As it turns out, colds were going around here like crazy, so the party was canceled. I had been hyping it up all week for Emma- telling her she would be wearing her costume to the party and such and I guess secretly I also had really been looking forward to getting out of the apartment and socializing. So, when the party was canceled I NEEDED to find something else to do. So, we found a local park doing a free Halloween party with crafts and we decided to go there and then on the way home decided to let the little ones try their hands at Trick-or-treating. They enjoyed it when they caught on to what was happening, i.e. candy was pouring into their bags! But, all along the way I was feeling grinchy about it all. I hate all the ghosts and ghouls and skeletons and scary stuff. Emma would ask me on the way up to decorated houses if the images and decorations were going to "get her". I just don't like the whole idea. So, I think I need to just do something different in the future that we can enjoy and love without the scary stuff. I myself never dress up for Halloween- there's the Grinch in me again. I do, however like dressing the kids up in cute costumes. Here they are:



Grant's first costume. He actually only wore it for this photo shoot. He was sleeping when we were trick-or-treating, the Halloween Party we were invited to was canceled last minute due to sickness and he was in his car seat at the other Halloween activity we went to. Oh well. He sure is a cute frog, though!


Here is Arianna's costume. Of course we forgot the camera when we were at our other activities and by the time we got home in the evening this is the best picture we were getting out of her. Cooperation goes down the tubes by 7 pm in this little girl!!! You can't see her face, but it's a good shot of a ladybug!

And last but not least, here is Emma the cow. And the cow is eating a spider leg. (That is one of the crafts she made at the activity we went to)