Turkey Day 2013

As far as family gatherings go, Thanksgiving for us was pretty low key this year and it was so nice!  The week before Sam and Owen helped me cut out and decorate their turkey shirts.  We gave Sam his at his birthday party the weekend before.I had already made Ellie a cute bow, so she got spared wearing a turkey.  We packed up and drove to Peoria Thursday morning bright and early.We got to hang out at my folk’s place and I whipped up my assigned sweet potato dish. (browned butter sweet potato casserole).  It was just us, my parents, and Philip and Kara so it felt a little lonely without Jenna and Casey.We got everyone dressed and headed over to my grandparent’s for a delicious meal! The rest of the weekend was super laid back and relaxing and I even got to sneak in a little Black Friday shopping for a couple things I was wanting for our school room.  Saturday night we helped Aunt Kara celebrate her birthday.  Owen assisted in the blowing out of the candles.Pretty boring Turkey Day report, but trying to catch up on my {very} neglected blog!

Halloween Recap

It was a fun fall week!  In school, we focused on the letter P and did all kinds of fall and pumpkin activities (and counting pennies below). We carved several pumpkins and saved one for when our buddy Sam came to play. We had 2 grasshoppers that seemed to enjoy our pumpkins on the front porch. We also learned about our bones made Mr. Skeleton.  I cut, he glued. :) We enjoyed the warmer than normal October weather a few days before Halloween. After last year’s amazing costumes, and with how lousy I was feeling, I decided to take it easy and do store bought costumes this year.  Wouldn’t you know that we got almost more compliments on my matching cows than the ones I (and my mom) spent hours sewing.  haha.  Owen wore Ellie’s costume from his first Halloween and I found his costume for $3 at a garage sale.  Score! We walked across the street to Prairie Fields to participate in their little parade around the neighborhood. It was a little drizzly, but the downpours we’d had all day stopped before we left and didn’t start again until we got home.  Perfect!  Owen totally got it this year and Ellie had no fear walking up, holding out her basket and saying “trick or treat.”They got quite a loot for how many houses we made it to.  I’m looking forward to helping them eat it. :)  Ellie had quite the fun time and was pretty tuckered out at the end of the evening!