Turkey Day!

Thanksgiving family photo!

We had a fun, low key Thanksgiving at my Dad's house this year! I worked the night before, got home in the morning, finished some food preparations then headed to bed for a "nap". Once the kids and I were up we made our way to my Dad's and had a fabulous Turkey dinner complete with all the fixens and much more. We had enough food to feed twice the people that were there, but there were lots of left overs and none went to waste. We also had more pie than we could ever have eaten in one sitting, but I made sure to sample at least 3 of them! After dinner we played a friendly game of poker, which I won....beginners luck they called it! It was a fun night with my wonderful family that I am so thankful for!
On Friday morning we went down to Casey's parents to have Thanksgiving with them. So on Saturday night we got to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner #2! It was also very good, with good dessert to follow. Sunday Casey's mom and I took the kids shopping, and got pictures with Santa! His mom also got me a massage witch I enjoyed while she looked after the little people, THANKS Jamie. The boys took advantage of us not being around by perusing several different sporting good stores, Casey came home with a new little fishing rod just for backpacking. We had leftovers for dinner then headed for home.

I am so thankful for my family and all the fun memories we are creating for the kids! I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend my holiday!!!!

Rain, rain go away......

...but until it does, here's what we've been up to when it's not nice enough to go outside!

* Hot bubble baths

* Baking, Norah is quite the little chef!

* Playing at the indoor play area in the mall

* Lots of coloring and creating, Nolan's even taken a liking to crayons(and not just eating them)!

* Play dates with friends, for the kids and Mommy & Daddy too :-)

* Movie time, what could be better than a snack, juice and a movie after a nice long nap!

30 - 1

Yep, that's how old I turned yesterday!
I had this yummy strawberry swirl cheesecake to help me celebrate.

Happy birthday song and blowing out the candles, the kids loved this but didn't understand why when they pulled the candles out to lick them there was no icing?

Big hugs for Momma on her birthday :)

Norah with my brother and dad. My sister and Casey also helped me celebrate but they didn't manage to get in any of the pictures.

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And I'll leave you with this.
Casey said after searching he found the perfect card for me, and this is so him!
Thanks babe, I'm glad I still "got it" !

Halloween Fun !

Here are our pumpkins
Norah designed her and Nolan's(2 on the Left) & I carved them

Superman !

My little heros

Norah helped Nolan at all the houses,
and he followed her like a little puppy dog ;-)

Nolan and his friend Carson takin a little break

Norah and Alissa enjoying some of their Halloween treats!