Thanksgiving Weekend

We hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving! Ours was great, but I think Zach, Abby and I were all spoiled by having Andy home with us for 4 whole days! It was so nice, and made it hard to give him up on Monday morning when he had to go back to work. Oh well, we'll take what we can get! Here are some pictures of our weekend. We spent the day at my sister, Alice's beautiful home. It was special this year because both of my brothers and their families were with us too, so the whole family was together. Here are the grandkids at the kids table....oh how I remember the days of sitting at the kids table! Abby, who was very excited about the stairs! We don't have stairs at our house, so she was having fun trying to crawl up them. She did pretty good too!

Zach and his cousins, Elena, Jasmine, and Sarah, relaxing after dinner.
This was the football-watching crowd....my brother Mark, my brother-in-law Brad, dad and Andy.
The completely adorable turkey cupcakes that my sister-in-law made! Aren't they cute???

Just a little family shot!

The next day Andy decided to do our outdoor lights. He really went all out this year and even got one of the scissor-lifts from work so he could get way up high in our tree. Cracks me up! All of the neighbors were calling him Clark Griswald!
A little higher!
The final effect...although it's hard to tell how they really look in this picture. You'll have to take my word for it that it looks awesome! He did a great job! What a guy! :)

On Sunday we went out to tag our Christmas tree. It's our little family tradition to tag our tree every year on Thanksgiving weekend. My mom joins us too to make it even more special. Here's Zach taking off on his tree quest.
My sweet little man!
Ok, you may think this is a weird shot, but I thought it was so pretty! We were walking along and I saw all of these tomatoes, rotting on the ground. They were still so colorful though. Such a pretty color-spot among what can be a bleak time of year.
Grandma, hiding in the trees!

And, one more family pic. We took a few and I think one of them is going to end up being our Christmas card picture. Seems to be another tradition that we have....the last three years our Christmas card picture has been from the Christmas tree farm. Andy and I joke about dragging the kids out 15 years from now for our traditional picture! Oh well....a tradition is a tradition, right? :)

And that about sums up our weekend! Hope yours was wonderful too!

GOBBLE GOBBLE!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! We hope you all have a blessed day filled with love, family, friends, and everything GOOD!

Nothing much to report...

Man, I have been needing to update for awhile now, but there just hasn't been much going on in our lives that seemed very blog-worthy. Guess we're kinda boring lately! However, I decided I could at least put on a couple of pictures to show off my little cuties! :) Abby, working on brushing her teeth. We haven't been very good about regularily brushing them, so that's my new goal. It would be a good thing, right?
Two almost naked kids, fresh from the bath. Cracks me up how much they look alike! They sure enjoy each other's company though....it's so nice when your kids grow up being friends. Well, at least for now they're friends. Ask me again in 10 years!
Don't worry, these aren't his real teeth! (as if you thought they were!) Andy had these lovely fake teeth that he wore for Halloween awhile ago, and Zach just thinks they are the funniest things! Ahhh, my handsome little boy. ;-)
Sweet little Abby......what more can I say?
Abby posing for me on her (well it's actually Zach's but we won't tell him) little chair. I had to snap the picture quickly before she fell off!

Halloween and Pumpkin Patches!

Zach's Halloween parade at his preschool.....he's towards the back of the line....the Pirate picking his nose. (lovely!) Can you find him?
Zach the Pirate, and his little girlfriend, Rylee the Elephant. Everyday they hold hands as we walk to our cars from school. They're so cute together!
Ready for trick-or-treating! My sister Alice, holding Abby, our nieces Emily and Jasmine, and Zach.
Abby wearing a funny pumpkin hat toward the end of our evening. She sure made a cute lion, but she kept tearing the mane off, so we took her costume off and gave her some better moving freedom. Thanks to Brynne for the adorable costume though! Everybody loved it!! :)

Z and A at Johnson's Farm. This was before the crazy tractor ride to the pumpkin patch. It was very fun!
Still at Johnson's. Zach and Abby enjoying the company of their cousins. These 4 handsome guys are the sons of Andy's sister, Colleen and her husband, Mike. (notice Abby eating a handful of hay!)
Earlier the same day we went out to Thistledown. That has got to be my favorite farm. Just so old-fashioned and un-pretentious.
Abby's first pumpkin experience!
Me and my cute kids!