Birthdays

As a child, December was always a busy month for birthdays. My mom's on the 13th, mine on the 17th and then my brother on the 27th. I can't remember a time when we didn't have a "shared" celebration, combining all of our birthdays and throwing one huge party. For the most part it was a lot of fun (as long as it wasn't combined with Christmas!) So it was really interesting when I met Brian and he said that his sisters birthday was the same day as mine.....now that's shared!

So today I want to wish my Mom a happy birthday from this past week

Happy Birthday to this young lady who celebrates with me today!

And then to my cute little brother who will celebrate later this month

My Baby Boy!

This weekend we will be celebrating Kaden's 5th birthday!!!!!

Where does time go.......

Hard to believe that 5 years ago tomorrow Kaden looked like this!!!!

And now...this! What a big boy!

Happy 5th Birthday K-bud!

We celebrated with some friends yesterday.

We had a lot of fun decorating sugar cookies.

Yum, Yum

Tonight we will go to the Etown parade and then tomorrow on his actual birthday celebrate with Grama and Pops and some family!

From Thanksgiving to Christmas

Another Thanksgiving come and gone. Unbelievable, Where has this year went???

We had another great Thanksgiving.

So much to be thankful for....food, family and most importantly a God who loves us and cares for us beyond our comprehension! What more could we ask for!

We spent the day at Mom and Dad E's. The boys were sporting their turkey hats that they had made a the library a few days earlier! They are definetly two little turkeys!

Mom and her apron and what is left of the turkey. What a great cook and host.

All the kids

And that was Thanksgiving and just like that we move right into Christmas.

Black friday we avoided the crowds and headed to a tree farm to get our Christmas Tree. Grama and Pops joined us for the adventure as we searched and searched for the perfect tree. We loaded a horse drawn trailer and set out on the quest.

As always it is fun to pick out a tree!

Nine Years!

It is unbelieveable how fast time flies!! On the 10th Brian and I celebrated our 9th anniversary!

Grama and Pops watched the boys for us so we were able to get away....do some shopping, watch a movie and have a nice meal out! It was a lot of fun!

Happy Anniversary My Love!

Shiver Me Timbers and a AOOOOWWW

We have been enjoying the fall festivities around our house this past week.

Grama and Pops came for a visit and brought the boys some pumpkins to carve.

The boys drew faces on their pumpkins, gutted them and carved (with the help off grama and myself). This was the first year that they both actually enjoyed the process!

The finished results

They were very busy preparing this treasure box that Brian built as part of

Kadens Halloween ensamble. Here they are staining it.

Ethan the "Postal Worker WereWolf" Grama bought this postal outfit last year on clearance and then she made it into a werewolf. It was cute and Ethan was able to carry all his candy in the mail bag

Kaden was a Pirate and carried around his treasure box to collect all his candy.

They both had such a good time.

Tomorrow they will wear their costumes for the last time

to the Halloween Parade in town.

Company

We have had a busy week.

Last weekend, Pops came to visit and helped us personally gather wood for the winter. While here he also helped SLR on their fall woodcutting day, along with Brian and Kaden. A lot of wood was cut and stacked, we are ready for the winter!

Our local volunteer fire department also held a community day.

The boys had the opportunity to ride on the fire truck!

Put out a fire

We also were able to watch a jaws of life demonstration. Enjoy some hotdogs and take a tour around the fire department! It was a neat experience!

Then this past week we had Rodney and Sue come and visit!

We were spoiled by having them here!

We had a lot of fun showing them around, visiting and then playing sequence!

Among one of the many gifts the boys received was a bug catching kit. We had a great time looking for bugs, although they are hard to find this time of year!

So thankful for friends and family!

Canada Part 4

Finally, I am getting around to posting the final pictures.

While we were home, Tayla celebrated her 1st birthday

My boys pee anywhere.....anytime.....any occasion....

Tayla love Mickey Mouse show so Jenn had a Minnie Mouse party.

I made the cake.

It did not take long to be devoured

Yum, Yum....black icing!

So that's it. We had a great time and were so blessed by all the people that

we were able to see and spend time with.