Thanksgiving

We had a fun Thanksgiving this year. It was our turn to be with my family. My youngest sister was able to be there which made it even better.

I was able to spend a lot of time holding this precious little baby. I could not get enough of her.

These two had a lot of fun playing together.

The girls loved getting out all of Grandma's crafts. I love it too because the mess was not at my house!

This year we had our choice of 3 turkey's. One traditional, a smoked, and fried. All three were very yummy, even though they may not look so good.

Mason, Thomas, and goofy!

Todd, Kellie, and Becca

Lydia and Sara

Ryan and mommy

Natalie, Cade, Dustin, Nathan, Nickolas, Allison, Triston, and Amy

Laura and Doug

Tina, Emily, and Sophi

Mom and Dad

I'm so glad that we have a day set aside for us to reflect on the things we are thankful for. There are so many things I am thankful for I wouldn't know where to start. Well maybe I would start with how thankful I am for my family, the gospel, my Savior, and a Heavenly Father that gave me all that I have.

School Pictures

Can I just say I have some cute kids! I was very happy with my kids school pictures this year. I always get a little nervous when they bring home the pictures. I never know what I'm going to find when I open their picture packages. I was pleasantly surprised.

Halloween

It was another fun filled Halloween, and over to quickly. I had to work on the 30th and since that was the day Halloween was celebrated we got to dress up for the special occation. Try and guess what we were. No I did not keep the nose on all day. Only for the picture, then it came right off.

Buzz Lightyear

Zombie from the 80's

Baseball Zombie

The kids didn't get as much this year as they have in the past. Since they are not eating it until after New Year's they didn't have the drive to stay out as long.

Putting it away for 2 more months!

Steve's 39!

The week after my birthday Steve had his. It is fun to share the same birthday month and for one week we are the same age. His birthday celebration started out with dinner at his mom's.

The morning of Steve's birthday I got up and made him what else but banana muffins. This year I added chocolate chips. They turned out pretty good. After his muffin breakfast Steve was off to the dentist. He's done so well that last few years with no cavities. But this year he had 4 cavities and has to get a crown. So the fillings and crown are Steve's birthday present this year. Can't beat that!

I did go to Zupas and get us some lobster bisque for lunch. Steve didn't feel up to going out after sitting in the dentist chair for 2 hours.

We went out to the Pizza Factory for his birthday dinner. Of course I had the camera but forgot to take pictures.

I did remember to take one of him with his birthday Brownies!

Halloween Fun

The week before Halloween was a fun but crazy week. We had a lot of great activities to go to. It all started with our annual Niederhauser Halloween party. This year it was at Julie's. As always there was lots of good food and fun! Here we are the zombie family with Buzz Lightyear!

Ryan's preschool has all the kids carve pumpkins and put them out for all to see at the Syracuse City pumpkin walk. This was our first year going and it was well worth it. There was a little girl behind us counting the pumpkins, she counted over 900. There were some pretty amazing ones there.

Ryan wasn't so sure about what we were doing in the beginning because Jakob saw the Big Bad Wolf and I think Ryan thought we were doing something scary. Once we got to the pumpkins he had a blast.

They had a few Star Wars guys walking around as we were waiting.

McQueen.

Ryan had a Halloween party at school. I had to work that day so I was not able to help out. But they had a parade at the end and Steve was able to get a few shots of Buzz and his class.

We also had a ward party and school carnival the week of Halloween. I love all the fun things there are to do this time of the year. I know sometimes I wish time would slow down but I'm grateful for all the things we are able to do. And all the fun memories we are making.