It is coming!

Yes, Thanksgiving is fast approaching. And we are excited here! Once again we are gathering at the old red school house and have invited both sides of the family. We currently have 42 people coming! If all show this will be our largest group yet. The turkey is in the fridge thawing. Cranberries have been purchased. And we are still trying to decide which pies to do, pumpkin is a given and Hannah is going to try a s'more pie (of course, you know how Hannah loves a s'more). Just can't decide on what kind of chocolate creme pie to do and should we pull out our blackberries and do a pie with those. Decisions, decisions! Looking forward to getting together with the families and eating good food!! If you are still undecided where you are going and looking for a group to join come on over! Millie

Camera phobia or just shy?

For some reason Isaac does not like to have his picture taken. Hannah loves to have her picture taken and tries to include him.

Rob can't get him to agree to having his picture taken either! Luke on the other hand has no qualms about having his picture taken.

He will try to walk out of the picture before you can take it.

And do a quick dodge the other way.

Seems he is not the only one. Here is David trying to hide.

And Hannah behind this pillow.

And Luke doing a quick back turn. Maybe they are just tired of showing up on the blog! Millie

The new camera

On Hannah's birthday she bought the family a new camera (she has been feeling guilt since she was the one holding it when it broke. Cameras on trampolines, not a good idea) so we don't have to guess what we are taking pictures of any more. But we do need to practice a little. This first one came out a little blurry.

Now that's better. Hannah and her FarMor and Rob and his mom! And an actual picture without laundry or something else piling up in the background! I do have some uncluttered spaces in my house! Millie

Oh ya, Halloween happened!

Luke is our only one who still trick or treats. This year he was a mad scientist. Pretty simple to put together. Seeing as he is the only one who trick or treats you would think he was the only one in costume. But you would be wrong.

Many hours were spent putting together this costume. Sam's YA group went to the dance together as Peter Pan and his group. Next year he could go as Robin Hood with pretty much the same costume! It was a really amazing costume complete with pan flute (which Sam made) and dagger and pouch of pixie dust (and phone holder. Who knew Peter Pan had no pockets!) He was really liking the leggings!

Then for work they had a western theme so he went as a cowboy of course. And looked mighty fine if I do say so myself.

And here we have our Jack o lanterns! It was a good Halloween. We finished it off by celebrating David's b-day. Millie

Birthdays!

This last week we celebrated David and Hannah's birthdays. David was on Monday and we celebrated after Luke got back from trick or treating with enchiladas for dinner. Hannah's was on Thursday but due to an overload of things on that day that could not be rescheduled we celebrated on Saturday in between soccer games and wedding receptions with Hawaiian haystacks.

David opening his gifts, while sitting in his new chair.

Hannah waiting to open her gifts. She had to wait two days but not sitting in that chair the whole time!

David blowing out his candles on his funfetti cake with rainbow chip frosting a family favorite. Do not be fooled and get the funfetti frositng, it must be the rainbow chip frosting. (I am not sure why we must always have the laundry in the background.)

Hannah blowing out her candles on her Too Much Chocolate cake! It is a devil food cake mix, chocolate pudding and mini chocolate chips! And it is delicious. (Once again the laundry in the background. We have got to pick a different place to do the whole blowing out the candles thing!)

Happy Birthday David and Hannah!!! We love you guys mucho! Mom

A girl and her family!

Hannah and Luke on Halloween.

A rare picture with Isaac. He is a little camera phobic.

Hannah and David leaving for Jamba for their birthdays!

Hannah and Sam.

Hannah and her Dad.

And Hannah and her Mom. Okay it was late and the end of a long day and busy week! Millie

And so it begins, again.

This is the second time we have raked the leave this fall. We got 5 piles this time.

And this is what the tree still looked like!

And the next day this is what the yard looked like. We have now raked 5 times.

And the tree still looks like this. Yes we loved this tree during the family reunion when we could all gather under it and enjoy the shade. It just seemed to be a gathering place. But each fall we do kind of curse the tree and its many leaves. Even worse are the sticky little helicopter things that stick to everything. Oh well. With the good comes the bad. Just a little opposition in our lives. I am off to rake once again! Millie