Thanksgiving Dinner

Thanksgiving Dinner 2009

We had set the food out buffet style we just didn't have room on the table with all of the people.

Janel, Hannah and Colton were able to join us for Thanksgiving


Hannah really enjoyed the food!

Here is my mom Kris showing some of the beauty of our table with the glasses and table settings (got to love our wonderful wassel sitting on the table doesn't every Thanksgiving table serve 2 liter bottle of your favorite soda) :)

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner we had all of our children here as well as Grandma Kris, Grandma Suzanne, Aunt Janel and her two kids Hannah and baby Colton. We had our dinner on Friday this year due to the fact that Steve had to work Thanksgiving day and Suzanne's plane didn't come in until the night of Thanksgiving and so it was planned for Friday instead and it was wonderful we had lots of great food and enjoyed having so much family here to be with us for the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Halloween 2009

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Hope everyone had a great Halloween. We did!!! I made the kids costumes again this year and they turned out great. All in all it went well. We never did find Sienna's hood for her costume so she went without and Blaize still would not wear the hat for his costume, Dorathy's shoes got done and Glenda the Good Witch had her crown after all. Hope everyone is doing well. I love this time of year. Hopefully we will get our family pictures done soon need to find another good spot to take them. Happy Halloween!!!

Ward Halloween Party!

Well as usual momwas late getting costumes done and we were late to the party. We missed just about the whole thing although we got to make an apperance to show off mom's work and we did get dessert and got to see the 3 Little Pigs play which was cute but all in all the costumes came out great. Sariayh-Dorathy (Wizard of Oz without the red shoes that mom still has to get done for tomorrow for Halloween), Savannah-Glenda the Good Witch (Wizard of Oz although in Pink and Purple sporting her wand but no crown mom still has to finish before tomorrow night), Sienna-Buzz Lightyear finished costume but can not find the hood, and last but not least Blaize our Mr. Potato Head and refusses to wear the hat. All in all everything turned out great and I loved sewing them it was alot of fun.

Sariyah's Achievement Day Special Night

All of the girls for Achievement Days were asked for their Recognition Night to make something that would represent fall but not necessarily a Halloween pumpkin but a harvest pumpkin to represent the harvest that they have sewn this year in things that they have accomplished. I saw this idea in a magazine and Sariyah loved it so she made this pumpkin out of silk flowers and a branch she found at the park. We now have it displayed on our kitchen island for the Fall holidays. She did a great job on her pumpkin. We also made cupcake size pumpkin pies that were yummy! We are very proud of Sariyah and all has accomplished this year she is growing up to be a very loving and responsible young lady.

Family Twister Night

Savannah got Twister for her birthday in May and has been wanting us to play it as a family ever since and being the wonderful parents we are we are just now getting around to playing it in October. I guess I should at least be glad we did it before her next birthday. :)

Sariyah and Savannah laughed the whole time.

Savannah really enjoying herself.

Blaize getting in on the action!

Oh the fun!!!

Don't fall.

The rest of us played as well. Steve and I made it through about 2 rounds. Remembering how flexible children are and we aren't. Sienna played once and then fell asleep. Austin also joined in on the fun and he and I were a team once and he managed to knock me over. We all had a great time.

Blaize's 2nd Birthday Party!

Yesterday we celebrated Blaize's Birthday even though it isn't until tomorrow the 7th. Grandma Jerome was moving back to Las Vegas today (very sad about this) so we celebrated yesterday before she left. He is going to be 2 tomorrow and I can hardly believe he is that old already.

Blaize opening presents. His favorite things in the whole world are anything that moves especially cars and trains. He has this thing about watching the movie cars at least once a day for the past week and so we had a cars birthday party.

Opening the paper which he did a very good job at. This gift was Cars books which Grandma gave him and it took us a good 5 minutes to get him to open another because he was so excited by the books.

He then got a train of which he started singing the song All Aboard the Choo Choo Train (which is one of the short disney clips between shows. It was very cute.

He got the cars from Daddy and Mommy that I put on his cake. The banner on the front said Happy 2nd Birthday Blaize but as you can see it stuck to the frosting pretty good and the oils leaked through. He loved it the first thing he did even before blowing out the candle was to take the red Lightning MacQueen car off and lick it.

As you can see he has the car in his hand and the candle is not blown out yet he wasn't so sure what to do abou that. All in all he had a great birthday and loves his cars, books and train. Happy Birthday Blaize we love having you in our family!

Sienna's Halloween Projects!

Sienna and mommy have started having at least one day a week for preschool together and along with working on colors, shapes, math and alphabet I try to have some fun project or activity for us to do and this is what we did last week. Sienna made spiders out of pipe cleaners, googly eyes and puff balls. We then decided to hang them on the front porch post and they turned out very cute we are going to make more for the other post out from and around the door.

Sienna was really excited for her sisters to come home and see what she had done and sure enough when they came home they noticed them and loved them too!

We also made pumpkins which we hung in the window but the light outside againt the windows makes it a little hard to see them but she really had fun making them.