Happy Thanksgiving!

From our family to yours: Happy Thanksgiving!

I had to lie to Levi and Ben just to get a smile. I told them I had something for them if they would smile......all I really had was a whole bunch of food to eat!
My table set for a picture before we all sat down to eat. Yummmmm!! All the fixin's. We had all of our "must haves" for our Thanksgiving meal tradition. Levi smiling without any prompting from me. :o) You all know that Benjamin doesn't like to eat but I did get a picture of him with his mouth full. He actually took about 10 different bites before he wanted to get down from the table. My mom and Manfred came for the holiday. Before they left my mom wanted to take a walk on the beach. It ended up being such an ordeal! So I grabbed my camera and when we got there I asked everyone to turn around and said "No one Smile for the camera!" As you can see Benjamin was so disgusted that he didn't even want to come stand with everyone. :o) Hahaha! What we will do to create a memory!

My Halloweiners!

I was only able to get one good picture of the kids in their costume. The kids were really close to having melt-downs and their parents were really close to postponing trick or treating until 2012. We managed to keep it together though and borrowed a golf cart from our neighbors Wendy and Kelly to take the kids around our community for trick or treating. One house even makes a "spook house" every year and we felt Levi was finally old enough to go.......with his dad. They seemed to enjoy it. I was scared enough sitting in the golf cart waiting on them to come out. We came home once Benjamin told us that he didn't want to go to anymore doors because he had enough candy for now and Eden Rose was complaining about carrying her bag and wanted me to do it for her and Levi didn't bristle at the suggestion that it was time to get ready for bed. We all slept well that night. :o)

I also included some pictures of the kids at our yard sale we had a week before Halloween. We have a community yard sale every Spring and Fall. Our family has decided that we really enjoy these yard sales because we get to cut up with our neighbors, who we would otherwise not spend much time with because life situations take you in opposite directions. Jeff said that he will be sure to take these Saturdays off from now on and next year us and two of our neighbor friends are going to get out our grills and our coolers and have a few hot dogs together. Who knows.....maybe we will sell a few too!