Thanksgiving

Now this is my kind of Holiday.

Scrumptious food...and lots of it!

We are grateful for our good friends the Salmon's, who joined us for the gorge.

They brought some fun games over (Blokus and Bang! were the ones we played) and also some Christmas movies for the kids to watch (Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph, etc.).

What a chill day! It was so nice, we loved it!

Rob dad used the electric cutting knife that we got for our wedding for the first time.

Way to go honey, I'm so proud of you. :)

After giving our stomachs a moment to digest, it was time for

PIE!

Here are the masterpeices Jenny Salmon and I made the day before Thanksgiving.

(It's a good thing the guys didn't notice that we put a little dry milk in the crust because we thought it was flour...it made it more creamy, right Jen?)

Four adults, four kids...

and FIVE PIES!

Pumpkin, Apple, Apple Peach, Mudd Pie, and Turtle Pumpkin Pie

Yum,

yUm,

YUM!

Three Little Monkey's

No, Trevor didn't get this funny face from his siblings.

He started it!

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2

3

Little Monkey's.

Run Children, Run!

What do you do when the temperature drops below freezing?

We take the kids to meet daddy for lunch at the mall.

Then the kids have some room to roam,

climb,

play,

and RUN!

Then we all go home and take a nap!

Pretty Rainbow

The day before Thanksgiving,

Ellie came home from school as an indian named "Pretty Rainbow."

Pretty Rainbow loves to make breakfast to surprise her mom!

She's done it several times in the last few weeks.

She sets water cups filled for everyone and everything.

She's very capable, this "Pretty Rainbow" girl.

She also loves wavy hair, and ballerina twirls,

and playing with her little indian warrior brothers.

She also likes to dress to match her mom.

She says her favorite thing about her life right now is...friends!

We love you Ellie, our Indian Princess.

Ryan the Builder

Ryan loves to build things.

This is a picture of his "Shooter Jet"

It can fly 3084 and 281 miles away!

It can go really, really fast.

It can even go really high, all the way to Heaven!

Ryan is on my lap, and he said to write,

"Here is Ryan, and he is a cool dude rock star!"

"Here is Ryan, he is a Paleontologist, he is digging for dinosaur bones and putting them together."

He put together two dinosaurs, the

Daddy one is called "Hermico" and the Mommy on is called, "Cutie Pie."

Ryan is cool!

Trevor's not a Baby Anymore

I'm officially part of the "Wear did my baby go?" club.

Trevor's not a baby any more,

and he makes sure I know it. He has to have "Trevor's turn" to say prayers. He has to do everything the big kids are doing including: spitting in the sink when they brush their teeth, coloring and painting, going outside to play, watching movies, playing fighting with toy swords with Ryan (he says, "I got you!" yes, we're in for it) and telling Mommy no when he doesn't want to do something (like wear his coat out when it's snowing).

He has payed close attention to his big brother Ryan,

and has become quite the little ham!

At breakfast he'll just close his eyes until we notice, just to be funny!

His favorite game is still a good game of

Peek-a-boo in the curtains.

He loves to sing songs, and when I was putting him to bed the other night he made up his own song titled, "Chokate Bilk" (chocolate milk) which he just sang the words over and over to his own tune. Here's the end of a clip of "I am a Child of God"

We sure love you little man.

This is the Michigan We've Heard About

November 9th and 10th we had our first snow stick to the ground.

RYAN loves the camera....

and the camera loves Ryan.

"Ellie, how does Michigan snow taste?" "Soft, and lots of squishy."

"Can you move your arms, Trev?"

Well, we bought the scrapers for the car windows, the snow shovels, gloves, boots, hats, etc. I think all we need to get are a couple of sleds. Welcome to Winter!