Decorating our Christmas tree

The kids had a great time decorating the Christmas tree. Kiki drew the straw to put the Angel on top this year.









Rick and I laughed because what would we have done to get the big kids up there!!! Kiki is still so easy to lift that high!!!

Kiki's first school presentation!!!

Kiki did her first school presentation. She had to learn about family traditions. We picked our Irish heratige and she told of the candle in the window tradition. She made a posterboard and some Irish Soda Bread to share with her class. She did a GREAT job and learned a lot!!

Thanksgiving Day

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebrating with family in Poway. The kids baked a cake and pie to enjoy. We stuffed ourselves and enjoyed seeing all our family!!




Michael (our nephew) is always wonderful to teach Andrew new moves to use on his friends (and Dad!!)


Alexis is wonderful with the little kids (Reghan our neice is pictured here with her)...she is the only big girl at family functions and I think we all love having her there to help us out....she is always so loving with the little kids!!!

And the little ones do get really wild when they are together...It is amazing how much Kiki (curly hair) and Jadyn (our neice in the long black hair) look alike (haha...they are 8 weeks apart in age and look totally opposite!! We always joke they are the "twins") Reghan (our neice, loves to get wild with the girls now too!! She is getting so big!!!


Baby Layne (our youngest neice) is getting so big and we all were saying how much she looks like Andrew!!



Nick carved the turkey for us to all enjoy (and Paula cooked it!! Thanks Paula)





And we all ate a LOT of food!!



We ended the evening getting some great family pics!!!





PS...NATE WAS THERE TOO!!!

TWILIGHT

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb"
"What a stupid lamb"
"What a sick, masochistic lion"

Big news in our house....The release of Twilight the movie. Alexis and I have read the books and LOVED them....we were so excited to see the movie...we loved it..a MUST see!!!

School Harvest Festival

We had such a great time at our school's first ever Harvest Festival. I helped with the Cake Walk this year (my first ever doing that) and loved it. I helped make 8 cakes to hand out and my mom helped with the most darling turkey cupcakes!!! The kids had such a great time and we loved every minute. They had games, arts and crafts, and relay races...Andrew loved the sponge race and I am pretty sure he was the wettest kids there!!!

Trick r Treating

We had such a fun time during Halloween this year.....We celebrated with our good friends, the Sanders. The kids got a BOAT LOAD of candy and were up until all hours of the night! We played a little Rock Band to close out the night. Kiki loves to sing "I think I am paranoid" by Garbage...it is so cute to see her sing along side her brother.

Pumpkin Carving