Last Sunday we made some cookies and brought some plates around to some of our neighbors. We love our neighborhood and even though we don’t know our neighbors too well yet, we wanted to share the Christmas spirit.
Growing up, I remember most years going out with my dad and delivering plates of goodies to people. I usually had to dress up as an elf and we had to sing ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’, which I didn’t force any of my kids to do that, at least not this year…
We had a good Thanksgiving this year. We were with the Gregory’s and the kids loved playing with their cousins. The only downside to all the kids is all the germs, as most everyone ended up getting sick, which wasn’t a fun end to the Thanksgiving weekend.
The kids got to open a present on Thanksgiving, one from their cousins, as not all the cousins will be there on Christmas. So they were super excited to do that. The weather was great as well, which is pretty amazing for this time of year. The kids spent some time playing outside and going on a walk.
We are extremely grateful for all the blessings we have this year: the new addition to our family, our new house, the health and strength we have, etc, etc.
So we gave William his first taste of food last week. He’s not quite 6 months old, but we waited longer to give him food then we did Lucas or McKinley, so we figured we’d be okay. He wasn’t a real fan of it, which you can see in the video below, but I’m sure he’ll come around.
We had some really nice weather this weekend, so we took advantage of it by raking some leaves! We don’t have many trees at our new place, which we were sad about but at the same time, I thought it would be nice not to have to rake leaves. Well unfortunately that didn’t happen. One of the houses down our street has a few huge trees out front and all the leaves they lost blew into the surrounding yards, including ours. So I still ended up getting to rake leaves, but it was okay, I’ll take the nice weather if it means I have to do a little work.
Halloween 2013 has come and gone already. The kids had a great time trick-or-treating and enjoying some other activities. Lucas had a school party and a parade, where the kids walked around through all the classrooms. We got to go watch him and I think he was excited to have us at his school. He dressed up as Batman this year, but couldn’t wear a mask at school, so he dressed up as a pirate for school.
Kryssi helped out with his school party, so McKinley got to go for that. She dressed up as a Princess, but then that evening decided she wanted to be a monkey. So both kids got to dress up twice. William had a monkey costume but I’m not sure he ever wore it.
We got quite a few trick-or-treaters coming to our house, which was a new experience for us, as we’ve never had very many come in the past. We actually ran out of candy, but it was okay as it was about 8 at that time and our kids were going to bed, so we didn’t want people ringing our doorbell at that point. But next year I guess we’ll have to buy more and be prepared.
It was quite cold and a little rainy at times but we’ve had worse Halloweens in the past, weather wise.
We carved our pumpkins this past Monday for FHE. The kids were really looking forward to it, though Lucas didn’t want to have to clean out the pumpkin guts. He would touch one seed and then have to go wash his hands. William was already asleep, so he didn’t get to participate, but maybe next year. But they turned out really nice.
We’ve had really nice weather this week, highs in the upper 50’s and mid 60’s. I doubt it will last much longer though, so we’ve tried to take advantage of it. So this week we decided to go to the park and have a picnic dinner.
