Thanksgiving

We had an amazing Thanksgiving! We were very thankful for getting to spend it with our parents and some of our best friends. The Moss Family came up and spent the week with us. Dinner turned out great and we had a lot of leftovers. It was the best turkey yet!

That night Megan and I hit the stores for Black Friday shopping. Our first haul was from 8 PM - 2 AM. Then we got back up at 7 am and kept shopping until noon. We got a lot of great deals and had a lot of fun!

Saturday we got our Christmas tree. We set a new record this year: it only took us 30 minutes to pick it out. Unlike last year it took us 2 hours!

 That night we went to dinner with the Moss Family at Olive Garden. One of Megan and my favorite restaurants.

The next morning the kids exchanged gifts. We had such a great time with them. We wish they still lived here!

Halloween

On Halloween I threw a party for Liam and some of his friends. The kids came over dressed up and we decorated pumpkins and went trick or treating to the neighbor's houses.

This is one of Liam's friends from preschool.

We had a lot of kids this year! Everyone had a lot of fun.

That night for Halloween our parents came over for dinner. My mother the "cat" stayed and passed out candy while we went trick or treating.

Brielle and I were dressed up as Tinker Bell.

We are very lucky to have both sets of grandparents close to our kids.

Liam and daddy were Superman. He is such a good dad to dress up like his son and walk around the neighborhood.!

They had a great time being dressed up together.

We couldn't believe how into Trick or Treating Brielle was. She followed Liam to every house and went to the door and held out her candy bucket. She would then look down at the candy and proceed to the next house.

Liam was very happy with the amount of candy he got. We were too!

We gave Brielle a bag of fruit loops to enjoy, since she is too small for candy.

The kids then really enjoyed passing out candy to trick or treaters. Liam would answer the door and say "Hold on guys, I have to get you some treats." He would then reach over to the bowl and give each kid 2 treats. It was very cute. Even Brielle put candy in their bags.

Pumpkin Patches

This year we visited every pumpkin patch in the area. Here are a few of the pictures from those trips. You will see a variety of costumes on the kids. Basically I buy them a lot of costumes from thrift stores so they can have fun dressing up all month long.

We got the kids matching glow in the dark skeleton outfits. They wear them all the time.

We cut off Liam's summer blonde hair. You can see his hair is a lot shorter here.

We went on a lot of horse rides. Liam loves it! Brielle wouldn't even sit on the horse. Maybe next year.

We went to a lot of Halloween parties. Here we are feeding a snake at a kid museum party.

Liam's favorite part of the whole party was the moster mash dance room. He danced for 1/2 hour. Graham and I couldn't believe some of his moves. At one point he was on the floor doing some brake dancing moves. We don't know where he learned it, but it was really cute. We are really happy he is so confident with his dancing.

We carved pumpkins out in our garden this year. We ended up carving 6 pumpkins.

Liam wanted a scary pumpkin.

Here they are dressed up to go trunk or treating with our friends. Liam is a skeleton dog and Brielle is a kitty cat.

We had so much hay in our clothes and shoes after this. They had a great time sliding down it though.

Halloween Costume Party

Last night we went to an adult only Halloween party. We wanted to be something original. So, Graham came up with this idea. He is a pinata and I am the birthday girl. We have candy on the front of him like he is broken open.

We started making the costume the night before the party, but we ran out of duck tape, so Graham had to spend 4 hours on it the next day at work.

I had fun shopping in the kid clothing section to make up my costume.

At the party we won an award for the Most Elaborate costume!

Below is a picture of the dessert we brought. I made a pinata that matched Graham and filled it with candy.

We had a great time at the party. We already have another original costume planned for next year.

Our dessert won an award for the "Best Match to Costume."

Meet the Newest Member of our Family...

Liberty Blue

Yes, we have a dog! Graham has wanted a dog for a long time now. I told him we could get one when he turned 30, so here she is. Graham bought her the day after his birthday this year, but we just got her a week ago. Graham had to pick her up in Reno. She came from a farm in Texas. She is an Italian Greyhound. She was born on the 4th of July, hence the name Liberty.

Liam was very excited about getting a dog. He talked about it non stop for about a month. Brielle loves the dog too. She is constantly walking around saying dog.

 This is Liam wearing his crown he made at preschool. See how happy a dog makes him! I try and remember that when it feels like I have 3 kids.

She is a very sweet puppy. We look forward to spending many years with her.