Thanksgiving

The Friday before Thanksgiving the kids had their Thanksgiving party at school. They cut & painted shirts to be like Indians.  

 Earlier in the day they made butter and I came in later to make cornmeal pancakes with them.  

 The really liked the pancakes

 and Charlotte loved the butter.  

Thanksgiving morning they colored while watching the parade.  

This year since mom wasn't doing well we had lunch over at mom & dad's house.  

We were thankful for one last Thanksgiving with her.  

Halloween

For Halloween this year we had 2 costumes .  For school they had to dress up like a book character.  

Here is Franklin the turtle.  

 Here is Pinkalicious

 And Fancy Nancy

 A quick costume change after school and we have Toy Story.  

 Bo Peep

 Jessie

 Buzz Lightyear

 Bo & Woody

 We headed to Grandmother & Granddaddy's for our 1st stop.  

 Grandmother didn't know what to think of us.  

The alien has joined the cast.  

Up next was Naw's

 then over to Granny & Gail's

 Next up was Hazelween and truck or treat.  

 The had lots of fun at the games and ran around crazy.  

 Ellie was super excited Avery was there.  

These kids have grown up so much.  

Another fun Halloween in the books.

Camping in Cherokee

We love our annual camping trip in October.  We picked the kids up early and headed to Cherokee.  They love camping, but love our camping companions - Terry, Terri & Marley.  

 Saturday morning they colored for the coloring contest.  

We went for a hike in the woods.  

After lunch we carved pumpkins.  They were not fans of the pumpkin guts. 

 The kids took turns reading to Terri.  

 Next up was trick or treating.  

 Of course it was a family affair.  Toy Story!

 They love getting candy then coming back and giving out candy to everyone.  

 Evan won 1st place in their age category. 

 These two tried to be good sports about not winning.  

 Before we left on Sunday we went elk looking.  No elk, but a beautiful day.