Christmas sub floor style

Because putting up your Christmas tree

 in a room with only a sub floor is all the rage now :)

 Let the Holiday season begin......

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Jim's birthday had a rough go this year.  I only have this one picture to prove we did anything :)  It started out great.  Here we are going out to dinner with some of our favorite friends for an early  birthday celebration on November 6th.  As always so fun to hang out with these guys and have a nice night of friendship and laughter.   

  We were going to have a family party for Morgan and Jim on November 8th.  Morgan got sick and Jim did too :(  So about an hour before the party we cancelled. 

On Birthday Eve (November 9th) Jim was still sick.  He finally went to the doctor only to find our he had pneumonia!!!!! 

On his birthday (November 10th) he was feeling a little better (yeah for prescription drugs) so we went to Leatherby's the night of this birthday.  Otherwise we hung out at home to let him rest. 

A couple weeks later on November 22nd we finally rescheduled our family party for him and Morgan.  Nice to have everyone over even if it does make our house feel really small :)

Happy Birthday Jim.  As Lizzie would say,

 "WE LOVE YOU SO, SO , SO MUCH WITH ALL OUR HEART." 

Home Improvements

Sometimes after you do a small home improvement project (like painting your walls) it makes you want to do more (like replacing your floors).    On a pretty spontaneous impulse we started tearing out our wood floors on a Monday night around 8:30.  Ethan was a huge help and  never seemed to lose energy.  We were very grateful he was here to help us.  We already know what we want our new floor to look like but decided to paint our kitchen  cupboards first.  So now we walk on sub floors for awhile. 

And this is how our kids do homework when Jim is using a saw on the floor. :)
 Headphones a must during home improvements. 

Halloween 2015

Getting ready for Harrison Halloween party.

Indiana Jones (again) a witch,
  pumpkin princess and La La Loopsy doll

Jim and I went as amigos this year

 October 30th- Halloween at school

The staff of Altara Elementary was either a witch or character from Harry Potter.

I was Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter

 How lucky am I to be able to work at a place where I can just pop into my daughters classrooms to say Hi during their Halloween parties. 

 Halloween-

Even Lucky seems excited about his costume

My parents came up for dinner and to do a little trick or treating with the kids

So beautiful

Until next Halloween.....

Glimpse of October

Here are a few random things from our family October 2015....

Crafting- Liz has been working hard on sewing outfits for her cockroaches and plastic crocodile :)

Teaching her little sisters her skills :)

Finished cockroaches

A few special people even got them gift wrapped

She made a crown and dress for "Croci"

A picture Lizzie took for Reflections.
  Afton reading a book in a tree.  So cute!

Crazy hair day at school

Afton and Lilly are still in dance.
 This year a few of their favorite friends are in their class.
(Emily, Afton, Brooke, Lilly, Hailey)
*As an extra bonus 2 sets of twins are in this picture :)

Carving pumpkins

Monday night my parents came up 

and we carved some pumpkins.

Ethan- 

He felt the need to try and find the biggest pumpkin possible!  Even the seeds were giant!  He carved his huge pumpkin all by himself this year. 
 Great job Ethan!

Liz-

Nice and tall pumpkin for Liz. 

 Hers is a skeleton face with some designs around it. 

 Afton-

She was very intent on making sure the inside of hers was very clean and scraped out.  She also liked making it a puzzle game and would keep putting the pieces back in that Grandpa carved out. 

 Lilly-

She has been soooo excited for pumpkin carving night. 

 She wanted her name on her pumpkin this year :)

Group Shot

The kids with their finished products

They look bootiful glowing!

Oh yeah, and my mom brought up mummy Twinkies.

Cornbelly's!!!!!

Our annual trip to Cornbelly's meant another fun night!!  The kids love it when we go and we stayed WAY past their school night bedtime.   I justified it that we don't let them do that very often and  we were having good family fun.  Even better that we made it out of the corn maze much quicker this year (42 minutes) and unlike last year there were still other employess and workers when we got out :)  Here we go in no particular order......

Our cute minions!!!

I love how happy she looks!

Perhaps my favorite picture from the night.
 Lizzie's face cracks me up!

Afton looking at the map trying to lead us out of the corn maze. 

Me and my pile of cute girls!

And we made it out!!!!!
Another successful fun night at Cornbelly's!!!!!