My Turkeys

We had a nice and relaxing Thanksgiving...no travel, just cooking and eating and shopping.  Here are our Thanksgiving festivities.  Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving with their loved ones!

Nate at his school Thanksgiving Feast - before lunch they all sang "God Bless America", the "Little Pilgrim" song, and then the Blessing.  It was too cute.

Nate's "Turkey" that was our place setting for the feast

From his teachers...

Nate was kind enough to share his Indian Necklace with Matthew

Turkey Day!

Mmmm...good!

We had stuffed ourselves at Neena's and then walked to the school near her house to play

What I am most thankful for....

This is Matthew's new funny face....he makes it all of the time and makes me laugh!

Watching the FSU game...he was saying "Oh Oh Oooh...Oh Oh Ooooh"   (that was supposed to be the chop spelled out :))

Uh oh...we are in trouble...the first signs of crawling have begun!

Grandpa Dale, Dad and Nate built Nate's T-Rex over the weekend....This is Nate being eaten by the T-Rex!

The Final Chapter - Part 7 - Halloween Weekend

And so our month concludes with Halloween...and boy did we have an eventful Halloween weekend! 

It looks like he has seen a ghost!

On Thurs, I helped out with Nate's Halloween Party at school.  Since it was a costume party, he wore his Woody get up and he insisted I be Jessie.  (Other parents were dressed up too, so I wasn't quite as crazy as I look in these pics!)

Cupcake Cowboy

Woody & Jessie

I love this pic of Woody carrying his giant backpack

On Friday, Grandpa Dale, Aunt Julie, Keagan and Rayne, Aunt Abby and Uncle Jeff all came in to town.  So on Saturday we decided to make a day trip to see our Grandparents in AL (not realizing it was Talladega race day)...it was a longer drive than we had hoped for but we had a nice visit with them and the kids got to enjoy running around on a beautiful day (before getting back in the car!).

Grandmother Odom & Matthew

And then it was the big day...first we had a birthday party for Rayne...

Of course Nate had to take Rayne for a spin in her new doll stroller

Then we headed back to the Pumpkin Patch to pick up some more pumpkins for carving...

As the sun started to set, the costumes went on.  A brief aside about the costumes selections...Nate was Woody from the get-go and he wanted the rest of us to be Toy Story characters.  He was adamant that Matthew be an alien but I looked high and low for the costume (I really was not going to make anything this year, really!) but I couldn't find it, not even online - everything was sold out or on backorder.  Once I found out Keagan and Rayne were going to be with us for Halloween, I decided to make them all  partners...so Mom and I made Keagan a Jessie costume and we decided to make Matthew and Rayne Mr & Mrs Potato Head.  Which began the arts and crafts project...we weren't going to make anything but it turned out to be fun!

Mrs Potato Head ripped her eyes and nose off right away

Mr Potato Head with Woody's Grandma

Finally, we took to the streets

Snow White Summer and Cowgirl Shelby

 

Fairy Princess Pamela

It was a fun night...it got a little cool once the sun went down so the kids were ready to head home within an hour so we went back and warmed up with a bowl of chili before the little goblins had to retire for the evening.  Now, if I could just get all of this candy out of my house without eating it all myself....

So, that pretty much sums up the highlights of October...but I guess the biggest event around here is that I am officially done with my job and am currently a SAHM!  It might just be temporary but for now I am going to enjoy every minute of being home with the boys...it is a weird adjustment...once you are used to a blackberry's little red flashing light controlling you it's hard to turn your work mind off but I am learning how to be productive during the week so that we can actually enjoy weekends.  It feels great!!! 

Now, let the holiday madness begin!

Let's go back...(Part 6 - Fall Festival)

Pics from Nate's School Fall Festival...

Riding the Train with Neena

Since he somewhat cooperated with the pics, he was able to get a brownie from the bake sale...

...he must have been worried I would want to share, he shoved it all in his mouth.

Let's go back... (Part 5 - Toy Story on Ice)

Buzz, Woody and the Gang came to town a couple of weeks ago and we were there to see them.  Nate watched the whole show very intently (much more so after he got the over-priced flashy spinning Buzz toy that you just can't leave without - especially when the kid behind you already has one) ...Matthew watched the first act and drank a bottle but decided the second act was naptime.

On our walk back the car, the fountains at Centennial Park caught Nate's eye.  It was a beautiful day so we thought we would let him go check them out.  At first, he carefully darted in and out and studied the timing of the spouts...but one rogue spray soaked him and he didn't want to stay in his wet jeans (hard to blame him, wet jeans are the worst).  So, he decided to take his clothes off and we thought we would maybe just carry him back to the car but nope, he wanted to keep playing.  So, I admit it, I let my child run around in public in his underwear...I justified it by the fact that other parents were letting their kids do it too (does that help?).  He was having so much fun I didn't want to stop him - don't judge! :)

So, that makes twice in one month where my child has stripped down to his underwear to swim...and in October no less.  But he is having fun so that is all that matters!