November came and went in a flash (as I'm hoping will winter in general) and I am now realizing that with dreary winter comes no pictures, no excitement, no blogging. Sorry.

I just had to take this picture cause these ringlet curls have not been around for a long time. sniff sniff I guess it's one good thing about WA weather??? ;)


In other news Justin the mighty fisherman has been quite successful these last few weeks in the salmon fishing dept. He was like a kid at Christmas when he came home to show us what they caught. :) Salmon are spawning right now so the fish aren't so pretty but his buddy smoked them all up for us and man is it GOOD!

Two times last month all 3 of them caught their limit.

The beginning of Thanksgiving break I took the kids down to the Children's museum, they had a ball and it was so nice to do something out of the house.

Gavin loves the balls. ;)

We did have a little snow that week too and Thanksgiving had quite a bit but it was the best kind, only stayed for a day.

Thanksgiving morning I cleaned and got my house ready for dinner while Justin took the kids sledding and let me tell you, living on a mountain is great for this we can snow right in our front yard. :)

Kids go down, Justin pulls them back up........good way to get ready for the big meal. ;)

Gavin finding clever ways to reach what he wants.......eggs perhaps????

This cute girl was my wonderful helper the whole day!! She is so great in the kitchen and makes it so much more fun than doing it all solo. "Thanks Haylee, I appreciate everything you do."

Table is set.

Girls made the place cards.

While waiting for dinner to finish we took a little "snow break".

We followed our noses to the neighbors house where they were smoking a turkey......yum!

And they have a swing set.

Hannah and Maddie

Finally dinner is served!

The whole gang.

Our company for the evening, thanks for celebrating with us.

Haylee had such a full day this is what I found about two seconds after she stopped hollering at me that she was ready to read. :) Oh how I love this sleepy girl!

So our holiday was great and we're gearing up for a trip to Boise for Christmas, although judging by the amount of snow........everywhere that may be a joke. Keep you posted!

tis the season.......

I was pretty much craying while watching this.......the kids helped with this one. ;) Enjoy

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Pumkin carving 2010

Our handsome boy all ready for church. I had to get some proof that he can be a little charmer and pull off the innocent/sweet boy look. ;)
He worked the camera.......


Little GQ shot, ooh boy are we in trouble!





On to pumkin carving business and such, this year the kids got to pick whatever they wanted and we just let them go until they asked for help. For Gavin about 10 min, Haylee did everything but the carving and Grace was the die hard that finished last and fought to the bitter end to finish hers all by herself! She did a dang good job too. ;)


Before:

We have to get a few of these every year.



Tights and undershirts are what we sport while carving, what's your tradition????


All was clean and picked up except her little corner......


TA DA!!!! "Haunted house for sale"

Haylee's, Gavin's, and Grace's

Not too shabby if I do say so myself and what fun we had getting them done. I went to bed that night smiling to myself at the great family I am blessed with, as they get bigger and holiday's more memorable it's so fun to be seeing it through them.

I didn't actually get pics of Halloween but this year we had Grace the pirate, Haylee the cowgirl, and Gavin the giraffe. Candy has been sorted, traded, and counted and you'd better believe they know when pieces go missing.......wait! What happened to never seeing that candy again cause the answer was always "no you've had enough" when we were asked for a piece (while secretly stashing our wrappers)? Next they will want to keep it under their beds! Grrrrr........