Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas

The kids are enjoying holiday crafts, tree decorating, fires, and lots of Christmas music!

Thanksgiving day

We all enjoyed a low key day of thanksgiving together.  The kids seemed so grown up and thoughtful saying what they were thankful for before our meal.   We are truly blessed! 
We got to go to church, eat a big meal and jump in leaves!  We even had a post meal dance party too! 
We sang "I'm gonna eat on thanksgiving day" by laurie berkner a lot throughout the day and just enjoyed the day together.

Some forts and colors...

 Nothing too crazy going on around here...just forts and coloring and homework and fun and laughing and playing (and of course some yelling and screaming  but who wants to know that, right? Let's just pretend that all the kids play perfectly together ALL the time and listen to their parents respectfully EVERY time! :)



Levi took pity here on Ollie trying so hard to make his "fort" so he decided to help him. Yes, he wins the best big brother award multiple times
                                                                                    every day.  I don't think Ck and Ollie realize
                                                                                    how good they have it!

 Clara Kate colors almost every day!  She loves to color!!!

 And archery is still a theme around here since cousin Daniel's bday party. And since we were making cousin Henry his quiver for his arrows for his birthday, that leads to the kids wanting to play it more too. Yes he is missing one of his front teeth!  I love the cute awkwardness of missing front teeth!

                                                  And Ollie trying hard to make his fort!

School Carnival fun with Nana and Papa!

 The kids enjoyed the school carnival! They enjoyed sharing the fun with their Nana and Papa and levi enjoyed sharing the cake he won with them too! 

 "sword" fighting with their balloon swords.

 Helping Ollie!

Levi almost at the top. He climbed the wall way too fast!

 Clara Kate enjoyed getting her nails painted...

 Clara Kate waiting for the rest of her balloon butterfly to be made.

 

Fun to be had by all!

Halloween

Happy Halloween from the cow girl, army guy and transformer!   The kids enjoyed trick or treating around the neighborhood and handing out candy this year and ollie practiced yelling trick or treat at the top of his lungs for days!  And the dreaded (by me) bug collection is finally over!  I was not a fan of bugs in containers everywhere and the stink was too much!  Levi enjoyed collecting them.  Ck and ollie enjoyed helping too. And then one kind of random picture from ollie's friend's bday party. He had his very own 3 year old birthday party to go to! (He did leave my leg long enough to eat cupcakes and pick up pinata candy!)