Happy Thanksgiving!

    We had a simple and enjoyable Thanksgiving. Yummy food, 4 out of 7 kids to help eat it and leftovers galore.

All the essentials.

 

Not the best photo but at least we have documentation of who was here.

    Now on to Christmas! Only 26 sleeps! And, if you were curious, only 174 sleeps until the last day of elementary school.

Cute girls

    We've had some fun times with the Grand-girls this week. Crazy Harley absconded with my phone and took a variety of photos. For some reason she's obsessed with Joey's phone and glasses. And the first hour of their visit turned into a beauty salon with matching nails and hair-do's. 

    And speaking of nails, I got my 1st set of Christmas nails and I love them!

Photos by Harley.

Salon care = happy girls.

I mean, how cute is that gnome!?

    Now on to Thanksgiving festivities and possibly our first big snow storm of the season. (DUMB!)

    Happy Thanksgiving!

Somebody turned 52!

    It was Greg's turn to be celebrated. He got his Traeger all fired up and smoked some ribs. We had a fun visit from Kayli and the girls and our great friends stopped by with a perfect gift for the birthday boy. I think Greg's birthday was a success.

 

A drink and cookies from the grand-girls.

Best friends bring great snacks!

     And this is how fall is going. Lots of leaves from someone else's trees.

This is at least the third time Greg's 'vacuumed' the grass, so far, this fall.

    And I got this adorable photo this week. How cute are these two!?

Baby Reese is nearly ONE!

    What a fun week we've had celebrating Greg!

The best/worst Halloween treat

    So, we have a fish! One of our new neighbors had the 'brilliant' idea to hand out live goldfish to all the neighborhood kids trick-or-treating and Charlie was only too happy to bring one home. My older kids will tell you I made them return goldfish in the past when they won them at the local carnival but, of course, the baby of the family gets a fish and, what does mom do, orders all the supplies in a hurry and has this fish swimming pretty in Charlie's room in just a couple short days. And if he dies, yes, I will replace him. (Insert maniacal laughter here.)

 

Welcome to the family, Finn!

    And another new gel nail compilation to enjoy!

 

    And Greg's birthday gift arrived a few days early. He's pretty 'fired-up' about turning 52 in just a few short days.

 

    And the cat is quite fascinated with our newest family member. 

I can't tell if she's standing guard or trying to catch a snack.

    So, as I mentioned, we're just days away from celebrating Greg's birthday. There's only 195 more sleeps before Charlie graduates from elementary school. And only 47 sleeps until Christmas! Oh, and the results of the election came back more positive then we hoped, now lets just hold tight to hope until January 20th when it all becomes reality.

Birthdays and Halloween

    Lots of fun activities this week. We celebrated Isaac's 22nd birthday, twice. Charlie had her last Halloween parade at the elementary school and a few other things.

Pumpkin carving with her favorite people.

    Isaac got a 22-rifle for his 22 birthday! 

 

Baby Reese and her sister Georgia all ready for Halloween.

A movie afternoon on Joey's bed.

    Isaac's 2nd, 22nd, birthday celebration, courtesy of Morgan.

New shoes, t-shirt and a hand made card. Spoiled!

Morgan's mom even treated Isaac to German chocolate cake! Yum!

    And, I guess, Isaac's going through a cowboy phase, he bought himself a custom-fit cowboy hat, now all he needs is boots.

Howdy partner.

My 23rd year attending the Halloween parade at the elementary school. I'm DONE!

    There you have it, the last week of October is in the books.