Thanksgiving 2008

I decided to make (with the help of Pillsbury pie crust) a pumpkin pie and pecan pie for Thanksgiving this year. If you enlarge the picture you will see Krystin's fingerprints :)

Here she is being constructive :)

Kaylin wanted to help me do the dishes. She was so proud of herself. She was a very cheerful worker :)

While waiting for the 20 pound turkey to get done, how does one keep the natives from getting restless???

Their Dad takes them for a walk up to the school playground

Ethan made sure he got to watch Dad carve the turkey. If you look closely, you can spot our honored guest. (But don't tell him there is a picture of him on the blog) ;)

Ethan gladly whipped the potatoes for us.

The spread

Our family

(And our unseen guest's place)

What is Thanksgiving without black olive fingers?

(Jacque - I know you are with me on this one) :)

We rounded out the day by eating a pie supper around 5:00 and then played a family game of Sorry.

November 08 - O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

What could cause such excitement?...

Our annual day-after-Thansgiving-put-up-the-tree tradition! :)

Ethan's job


Kaylin's job (as of last year)

We had to come up with a job for Krystin this year.

Here she is performing her new traditional job :)

I was surprised by how far up Ethan could reach on the tree this year.

While Ethan dilligently put up the rest of his ornaments (he does have more than the girls, afterall) - the girls played with the "kid" nativity sets.

Ta-Da!

The tree with all the kids' ornaments put on

Of course, the really fun part is laying under the lit tree at night and looking ta the ornaments! :)

October 08 - Halloween

So it has been a month.... but these kids are just too cute to skip pics of them in their Halloween costumes! :)

Here they are on Sunday, October 26th at our church's "trunk or treat" event.

This was so cute. Kaylin found 2 of her preschool friends and they had a great time together.

Had to enclose this photo!


Every year, Dan's work hosts indoor cubicle-to-cubicle trick or treating.
Here the kids are running up to meet Dad.

Every year we go to a local corn maze/pumpkin patch together. This year we were not able to make it until Halloween evening. It actually worked out nicely as during the early evening hours it was not very busy :)

Enjoying the bouncy pillow.

If you can't see Ethan's face - you gotta zoom in!

The cow train

While the girls enjoyed the slides, Dan took Ethan to the pumpkin patch.

What's going on here?

A pig race!

Here I am explaining it to the kids.

Kaylin enjoyed this pedal car

Ethan thinks this picture is great.

"Krystin is pretending to be my wife and I am her husband! ....

But those are not really our clothes.... " :)

The "hay" ride.

Krystin was a little nervous. But fortunately Dad was there for assurance.

Kaylin enjoyed watching the big tractor wheels.

The corn maze.
Which way to go?

Fortunately our fearless leader had a map!

After the corn maze we took the kids to Red Robin for supper.

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I guess we wore them out!

October 08 - Guys and Gals Night

On Friday, October 17th, Dan and Ethan went to the church for a showing of Veggie Tales "Pirates Who Don't Do Anything". They dressed appropriately. :)

So what were the girls to do?

I decided to introduce them to painted nails.

Kaylin wanted 1 hand pink and the other purple. So Krystin did too :)

Krystin's hands.


Kaylin's hands

Blowing on her nails to help them dry.

I guess this is how big girls whose nails are drying pray.

We then had a pillow fight. I forgot to factor in that their pillows are just about as big as they are... so this is pretty much what it looked like - a belly fight :)

Then to finish the evening off, we borrowed a Strawberry Shortcake video from a neighbor and cuddled on the hide-a-bed .

This was a different day in October - but I though I would insert these 2 pics here.

Kaylin enjoys play-doh.

One day she decided to make a self portrait.

Can you see it?

Hat and hair.....

Ears and Eyes...

Arms, Nose and Mouth...

Body and Legs...