Thanksgiving 2008

In the beginning ....












Everything was very festive.


























In attendance (but maybe didn't make the picture): Jim and Diana; Becky, Kelly, Morgan, and Colby; Eli, Lisa, Chloe, and Parker; Kim, Cindi and Kids, Lydia, Roy, Barbara, and Brian (19, I think)







And then it was over. Paul, Joanne, Skip, Ann, Alex, Elizabeth and her new husband, and Mom came over later in the evening. It was a long thankful day. Love to you all.

Halloween in Ohio

Kaylee was a "Hello Kitty" Princess. Brock was Batman. Trevor was a Jedi Knight and Alyssa was a bat. Heather was the one who stayed at home pass out candy and I took all of the kids out with me. Alyssa quickly got involved once she realized that the kids got candy when they went to the door. She would go to the door and put out her pumpkin and then when someone tried to put something in, she would grab it from their hand and put it in the pumpkin herself. She would then sit in the stroller, ask me to open the candy and she would sit in the stroller eating her candy (missing houses along the way). As soon as her candy was gone she would go up to the next house and the process repeated itself. She loved it! The kids had a good time and we had perfect weather - about 65 degrees. At about half the houses, people were just sitting out side at the end of their drive way handing out candy. By the way - Brock and Kaylee posed themselves for the picture of them together.

Fall and trick or treat

We have had fun this fall with jimmy. He loves to play in the leaves. We've had a surprisingly dry fall - up till about 2 days ago - and so I would make big piles for him and his friends to run through. It was a neighborhood hit.

He also loved going trick or treating this year. He really got it. We'd watched "it's the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown" over and over again and talked about trick or treating, so when we went to the first door, he clearly said, "trick or treat" and when he got a candy, he froze in delight and then looked up at me and said, "Mom, they did it! I got a candy"I don't think he really believed that such a wonderful thing could happen. Jon was visiting us, so for the first time, Seth got to come out and trick or treat with us - that was a lot more fun than wrangling him on my own!