Thanksgiving Weekend

You gotta love Thanksgiving with all the good food and the good conversations and the good nap that follows all that. Right?

I had a fun Thanksgiving.... Toph and Brit came up and so did my sister Becca and her boyfriend JR (otherwise known as JAR by Casen or AIFF by Crew). We hung out a few nights with Toph and Brit and Becca and JR and just sat around and talked and watched movies. And Casen got to play with his favorite playmate "Hallebugs." Thanksgiving dinner was awesome once again at Nan and Norms house and Nan always does such a good job at cooking all the major stuff. She let us bring some Carmel Apple Cookies and Chocolate Covered Strawberries this year, but I never feel like she lets me  help enough with the cooking. I need to learn how to do all that Turkey stuff someday, so I can help with it too. Toph and Brit were there and so were Mandy and Reg and their families. Becca and JR ate with us too. (I feel bad too cause Cade was there with us too, but I did not get any pics of him. Oops!)

Then afterwards the girls sat around and talked while the guys watched the Dallas game. And then we all went home to our separate houses and finished watching the game. And I actually got a nap in, which was amazing! My younger kids slept for a couple hours. 

The rest of the weekend, we ate out a couple times, hung out at Mandys and had some girl talk and let the kids play. Toph and Brit went home Friday, but Becca and JR stayed a little  longer till Saturday. We took them ice skating and in our hot tub. Oh and don't forget, we ate dinner at Sam's Club that night too cause Matt is always up for a good bargain! 

JR and Becca had to go home Saturday about noon, but Corey had her dance show around 4:00 PM at Novemberfest, so our family got to go and support her. Her dances were adorable and she is so good and fun to watch! But little Crew was a pain in the butt and it was so crowded and hard to maneuver around with little ones. It was almost worst than church with a 10 month old. I was excited to get home. Grandma Nanny came too, to watch Corey! 

This weekend was fun! My kids even slept in till 10:00 and 10:30 two days in a row and me and Matt were loving that. I have not got to sleep in that late in years! We were spoiled this weekend. I am so grateful for family and for all the blessings Matt and I have been blessed with. We have a beautiful house and a beautiful family and Matt has a great job. And I love having Britt and Mandy around cause they feel like sisters when my sisters are father away and not able to be with me every holiday!  But it was also nice to have Becca here too. I wish  I could have my whole family with me at every holiday, but I know I can't.  But I love having at least one of my family members  here with me. Love ya Beccs!

  

My Crew Baby

My little baby is growing up and it is making me sad! He is at the most fun stage right now! He is almost 10 months old and so freakin cute! I just love him!

 Eating Chocolate chip cookie and loving it!

Turkey Costume Dress-up!

Liking it at first.

This is when mom wished she had a better camera with a faster shutter speed!

Holy Cow! We got one with him looking at the camera!

OK! Now he is done and hating it! He wants that hat off!

Still hating it!

Thought maybe a change of scenery! Nope! Still hating it! But the cutest turkey ever!
And Matt said he looked Gay! Guys just don't appreciate cute stuff! You can only do this kind of stuff when they are little.

A Few More Pics from Halloween Party

I got a few more pics from our Halloween Party from Marsha Thatcher. I still wish I had a few more pics of some of the families there, but we both did not get pics of everyone. Busy moms everywhere and we only have so many hands and only one brain! It really is hard to multi-task....host, take care of kids, and take pics. I am terrible at it.

Catching Up

I have multiple posts below. Had alot of catching up to do and we have been busy! Finally got them all done!

Halloween Day

The morning of Halloween the kids had a parade at their school and they got to show off their costumes to the parents and to the other students. This was the first time I have been to this parade at their new school! It was cute to see them and all the other neighborhood kids in their interesting costumes! And I think the kids like to have me their too. Casen liked it too!

I went with some of the nieghborhood ladies/friends out to lunch with our kids in their costumes and then afterwards we took them to the local grocery store to go trick-or-treating. It was fun for the kids. I have never done this before, but the kids liked it. Casen got a little scared in the haunted house and it was so funny because they give them other things too besides candy. For example they gave them a toothbrush, choc. milk, carrots, string cheese, etc. and everytime they gave him something besides candy he would say, "I not like this." I was laughing! But it was cute to see all the kids walking around with their little baskets. And it was also funny to see all the old people who were ticked that they chose to come grocery shopping on a day where the store was filled with kids trick-or-treating and in their way!

This was an hour or so before they kids started trick-or-treating!  They sure were hyper and that was before they ate the candy!

I even kind of dressed up a little!

It was so cute to see Casen try and keep up with the older kids. I was so afraid he was going to fall. We only had one injury of the night and it was in the first 5 minutes of trick-or-treating and it was Cade. And his costume held up. No holes just some skinned knees. Casen was also very picky about his candy. He did not want any chocolate bars with nuts, only Hersheys. And if someone did not have anything but candy bars he would say "No Thanks." And if they let him choose his candy, he took forever. He was into the nerds, laffy taffys, smarties, suckers, etc. He definitely was not living up to his costume. He was not Speedy Lightning McQueen. He was so slow! I love watching the kids trick-or-treat at this age.

Daddy being a good sport! He likes to watch the kids trick-or-treat too, as long as it is good weather!

Zonked out!