Pre-Thaksgiving times!

Well I guess since it's after midnight as I write this it is technically Thanksgiving:) We've had a great weekend. Last weekend was finished off with a 3rd birthday party for Max's friend Giddeon:) It was big fun:) There was playing,

Max got a lesson in playing cars and trucks with "big boy" Bookie:)

 Presents,

 and of course,

CAKE!!

Esther tied candy to balloons to give the kids. So cute! I will have to steal this idea:)

Crazy Max:)

Happy Birthday Gidders!

Tonight we went to Grandmas to inject the turkey and get it ready to deep fry tomorrow! (well again, technically, today:)

John get's a little too into his work!!

Beer and butter injected, mmmmmm, "This will be the one they will remember me by"

For dinner...

and Grandma had a treat for the kids

Gingerbread house! Mina & Max approve

I helped!:)

There were also gingerbreadmen to decorate!

Mina made Daphne (shocking)

and this one she said is Dada:)-so cute-and the likeness in uncanny:)

I've heard that all good chefs are messy,

so Max must be, like, the best chef ever!:)

Run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!

How'd the house turn out you ask?

Don't ask.
To be continued.....

Family Day:)

Today we had a great family day! John took Mina on a date to get a haircut

Mina really wanted blue hair like Coraline, so daddy got her some of this

it was cute watching him love on his little girl:)

she had to check it out

Such a pretty Bee:)

They picked up a new Christmas collar for Nubi!

 They also had some ice cream and picked up Fight Club (new on bluray) and Star Trek!
 Max and I went to Wendy's and Home Depot!:) Did you have fun buddy?

 I think Max's favorite part was the chocolate milk:) (that's my boy:)
Then we watched this (in celebration of Mina's hair I guess:)

Next we are off to watch a special screening of Star Trek with friends and later in the weekend a birthday party. Whew! Quite a weekend:)

Happy Birthday Miss Maggie Moo

Today for playgroup we had a party for little Maggie who turned 1 this Tuesday.
Is it your party Maggie?

I had fun making this for her so she would look stylish getting her diaper changed:)

She got some other fun things too!

and had lots of helpers for opening:)

and cake? Mommy is much too hip for that:) We had brownies...with black beans in them (I know, sounds weird, but they were quite tasty!) What do you think Mags?

Yummy!

Happy Birthday Maggie!

It 's that time!

I started this post LAST weekend and then totally forgot to finish it! So here goes....

Well, it's time again for another one if our families traditions...can you guess what it is? I'll give you a hint,We watched this.....

and got out all of this...

you guessed it! CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS! Our family tradition is to decorate for Christmas the day after Halloween:) I know "what about Thanksgiving?" We LOVE Thanksgiving and celebrate it too, but I don't see how a tree decorated all pretty takes away from giving thanks:)
Daddy and Nubi got into the spirit

So did the kids:)

Daddy had to make an emergency run to the store because (I kid you not) EVERY strand of our Christmas lights were burnt out! EVERY ONE! It was weird. But we quickly got back on track. The kids helped decorate the tree with Dada:)

 

 

 

 

Nubi got in on the action

Ahhhh, the finished product

So pretty! We have plenty of fun family traditions for the holidays to post about so I'll keep you in the loop:)
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Disney on Ice!

Last night we took the kids to see Disney on Ice! It was really fun:) First we met up with Grandma and had super yummy pizza @ the new pizza joint we discovered in Everett called "The Brooklyn". If your around Everett and want some pizza I highly recommend it, it's sooooo good!

 

 

Then we waited (in the rain!) to get inside. We were so excited to run into best friends Lily, Addy and Stella!

What cute little princesses:)

We let the kids pick a souvenir, which cost (literally) as much as the tickets! They picked these cute cups filled with snowcones!:)

Daddy got a souvenir too:)

Cute dada:)

Cute boy!
Here the view from our seats...

Max was REALLY excited! He screamed every time a character came out:) It was super cute:)

 We saw Cars

Ariel

 

Lion King

and Tinkerbell!

Everyone enjoyed the show (and their snowcones:)

and Max of course also enjoyed his snowcone. (maybe a little too much!)

What color did you get buddy?

It really was a great family night:)

We were happy to have a short ride home but someone just couldn't wait:)

Good night buddy

Halloweentimes

Luckily we had a place indoors to go for Halloween since it was so rainy and cold out tonight! We went to the Halloween carnival at Grandmas church:) The kids were so excited, Mina put on her costume at like 8am!

Gettin' Ready,

We got to see grandma!

and Lexi

Buddy Preston was there

It was fun to play games

and get candy!

Did you get anything good buddy?
they had family photos

and even a train!

Cute pic of the kids (apparently I went as the Kool Aid man, or maybe the double chin monster-Yikes! Scary:)

Did you guys have fun?

Mina did! Max?.......Max?

Awww, I'm glad you had fun buddy:)
And when we got home it was time to taste some of our treats!

All in all a great Halloween:) I LOVE my cute little family!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!! Hope yours was safe and fun:)

No Pumpkins

Well today we were supposed to go to the pumpkin patch with playgroup, but several gals were sick and those who weren't had people in town or were just pumpkind out! So we canceled:( It was probably a good thing though because it poured rain all day and we wouldn't have ended up going anyway! So instead the kids and I stayed in and had this

They LOVED it!

Is that good buddy?

Did you get enough?

what do you think Bee?

Yummy

sometimes I'm just glad for lazy hot chocolate days:)