Ending November....

Here are some more November pictures...

Enjoying the leaves!

So the other morning when I woke up, this is what I woke up to, not Clara Kate and Levi, but TWO Buzz lightyears! They had helped each other get into the costumes and have been playing "buzz" for days now. Pretty funny!

This is the East Ridge parade. Small but fun even though it was a christmas parade the weekend BEFORE thanksgiving!

Here are some of the kids being silly and cute...

Clara Kate likes to take care of Ollie like her dolls. She tucks him in and wants him propped on a pillow and then reads to him. Pretty cute!

Ollie is liking to roll around on the floor and still enjoys just being around and watching the other kids play.




Putting out some christmas decorations outside and it is finally getting cold and feels like we can be getting close to christmas now!

Now, here comes December with lots of Christmas fun!

The rest of Thanksgiving Weekend...

On Saturday the kids also got to have fun with more michigan cousins, ainy, reese, rory and jonah. Here is a picture of all of them on the couch at one time. Pretty impressive, huh? ;)

Then on Sunday, we put up our Christmas tree! Levi is VERY pumped for Christmas this year. He talks constantly about what to get people for presents and wrapping them to put under the tree. He has LOTS of ideas! CK really enjoyed helping decorate the tree too. We have LOTS of ornaments around the bottom as you can imagine! We like it though! :) It's hard to imagine Ollie trying to help us next year too!

Thanksgiving!

Here are some pictures from our fun Thanksgiving weekend with Chad, Jane, Bryce and Ally!
I have lots of pictures of the kids but I should have taken a picture of the turkey since we ate turkey, turkey and more turkey all weekend! And we are still eatting leftovers!

The kids had a great time playing together and Ollie enjoyed meeting some of his Michigan cousins for the first time!


They enjoyed playing Hyperdash...


This (below) is the hilarious tag game that got them all running and laughing and having a GREAT time. The one who had the walker was "it". Pretty funny little game they made up!



and enjoying Charlie Brown before bed.

Lots of fun was had and they can't wait to see them all again at Christmas!

Visit with Kate!

So last weekend we had a great visit with Kate. Levi sure wants to go visit her to get to ride the subway in New York some time soon! We had a nice walk to the park and picnic and enjoyed spending time with her. Levi had her playing LOTS of games and reading lots of books! :) You can see in the last picture they also enjoyed imitating her even in the way she was sitting! The kids say, "Come back soon, Miss Kate!" :)

And here are Levi and Papi making the firetruck levi got for his birthday from Nana and Papa!

Some end of October Pics and Starting November

This is levi's miniature golf course he set up after having so much fun miniature golfing with nana and papa. It had about 8 holes I think into the barn, over blocks and in the schools, etc. Pretty cute. Not a very good picture of it but a good memory he is recreating! :)

Here was Craig's Fall break project-painting our outdoor garage/storage garage to match the house. (he had painted the top siding and shudders on the house this summer already and still had the outdoor garage to do.) Most projects in this house are just plain fun for him because there is no time frame and there is no 40 foot ladder to have to use! :)

This is just Clara Kate being her cute little imitating self. She wanted to read with mommy too. :)

Here is Ollie learning a new toy-the hop and pop. He is quite facinated with it!

Here are the kids waiting for Grandma on their crate seats. (We had a garage sale the last two weekends so we still have a few fun things in the garage we haven't put away yet that they can find fun things to play with!)

Trick or Treat!

Well, here are finally some halloween pictures. They got to have two nights of fun this year, but I realized that I never took the camera out for our sunday evening Hallow-giving party. (this was a party our friend had where we had a thanksgiving dinner and trick or treated.) You can see the fun they had on saturday night at the church fall festival though and then they enjoyed trick or treating in our neighborhood. They were tinkerbell and GI Joe the first night and then a pirate princess and a Trasnformer the second night. (you can see part of the pirate princess costume in the getting ready for halloween picture which they enjoyed for the week before trying on their costumes and practicing saying, "trick or treat"! ) They had a BLAST. Unfortunately, Ollie just stayed home and didn't dress up this year but he'll have lots of fun in the future I'm sure! Clara Kate surprised us with her willingness to just go right up and yell "trick or treat" and talk to everyone! She is definitely getting older!