Thanksgiving

This year we ended up spending Thanksgiving at home.  The plan had been to go to my parents for the weekend, but the weather wasn't really looking all that great and so we made the decision to stay home and not have to worry about the weather.  It was nice, we missed seeing everyone, but it was nice to spend time together, it is always fun to watch the kids play and have fun together.  Wednesday night the girls and I made pies, we made apple, pecan and Amish cream.  Thursday morning the boys went and played football and the girls and I started the turkey and rolls and then we all watched the Macys Thanksgiving parade, which was fun.  for a table cloth I put white paper on the table and the kids had fun all day drawing and writing things we are thankful for.  Dinner was really good.  We had a family from church over for pie, it was fun to get to know them a little better.  It was a really nice day, I have so much to be thankful for.  We spent the rest of the weekend shopping, playing lots of ping pong and other games,putting up the tree, and just hanging out together, it was a nice weekend and a great break from school and work.

 Lydias Thankful turkey she made at school

 The tough football players

The girls sitting around the tree looking at the adds

We got the tree all decorated

kyles bathroom

We have been working hard to finish the upstairs bathrooms, and finally finished kyles.

Before pictures

After pictures

Fall Fun

Katie, Nicole and Lydia have had lots of fun this past week playing in all the leaves that have fallen from our trees.  The rake them into piles and jump in them, they make houses with them to play in, and they bury each other in them.  The weather has been perfect this past week so they have stayed out there as long as they can and played in them.

artwork

Lydia brought home some artwork she did at school.

 She made this one at home, it is for Veterans Day.  It is a Veteran in front of a flag, on the back it says I Love Our Country

 

Katie is in an art class at school, this in one that she did in class

I went up to the twins room this morning and they had decorated their door with leaves they had made.

Student of the month

Lydia was chosen for student of the month for October, so I got to go to school on Monday and watch her get recognized for that.  She didnt know about it so it was fun to surprise her at school. I got to meet with her teacher last week during parent teacher conferences, it was fun talking to her. She loves Lydia and says she is doing really well in school.

Halloween Fun

We enjoyed celebrating Halloween this year.  It was a busy month, so we didn't do much until the week of Halloween, but during the week we fit in as much as we could.  We played Halloween BINGO, watched Halloween movies, read spooky books, listened and danced to Halloween music, decorated pumpkin shaped sugar cookies, went to the church trunk or treat party, carved pumpkins and went trick or treating.