Warning!!! I am finally updating our blog and so there is a lot.

I just love this time of year and I have had so much fun just spending time with my kids.

The weather has been crazy with one day warm and the next freezing.

We love to snuggle up and drink hot chocolate.

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and wish we could be with all our family and friends.

Last week school was cancelled for a day due to slick roads and the kids just

loved staying home and slipping on the ice.

Thanksgiving

We had 22 people at our house

this year for Thanksgiving and we just loved it.

My kids loved spend some quality time with their Nana and Papa before they had to leave.
We are so glad that we live so close to them.

Nana gives our family a Christmas book every year and we opened it the night before they were to leave. The kids loved it.

All the cousins made gingerbread houses.

Here's the older kids eating Turkey dinner.

Carlee wanted to make sure a good game of Volleyball was played while everyone was here. I don't know how good it was but they played and had fun.

Halloween

We had a Great Halloween this year playing with our friends.

I helped my great friend Angie with a Halloween party and it was so much fun. We carved pumpkins, bobbed for apples and had a donut eating contest and of course there was a ton of fun Halloween treats. The kids had a blast!

Taylor wasn't going to dress up this year but changed his

mind last minute and went as a nerd.

He looked pretty good.

Jaren wanted to be a Hobo and I thought that was great since I did not have

to make a costume and he was missing his two front teeth.

Abby reused a costume Carlee wore a few years ago.

I think she looks sooo cute!

Carlee went as Pippie Longstocking and Grace was a Pirate.

They were both cute and all the neighbors would comment

on Carlee's hair when they came to trick or treat. It was

great!