Happy Thanksgiving

This picture was taken at a "fall festival" we had at church the end of October. My belly is SOOOO much rounder now! I think it clearly expresses the personalities of the my sons when confronted with starngers! They are hilarious!!
We have had our first thanksgiving as just our little family this year- and have LOVED it! i think a lot of that has to do with the fact that I always feel stressed when trying to feed my son (jared) at other people's houses. Not worrying that he wasn't going to eat any of the food has made my day soooo much less stressful!
The first thing i wanted to do this morning (before jason headed off to play football in 10 degree weather) was make a cute little thankful tree. I was making breakfast and explained my idea to jared. Well, he took it upon himself to create our thankful tree- and this is what came of it! Not nearly as fancy or cute looking- but it has all the personality of my sons. and I LOVE that!

Jared's thankful list 2010-

Archie book (archie and the pirates that he gets from the library and LOVES)
Horses
Spencer
Paper- drawing (this is a HUGE mountain we are still climbing- but he is slowly learning to love it!)
Humming birds (we made little paper ones at the library this week!)
Animals
Cereal

Spencer's Thankful List 2010-

Cows
Horses
Nuh-Nuh (his blanket)
Milky
Shows
Hot Dogs
Nuggets
My Bed

Daddy's List

Family
Animals
Food
House
Church
Army
Warm Clothes

Mommy's List

Family
Good Health
Beds
Good Helpers
Heater
Car
Laughter


We made little apple/gumdrop turkeys for our center pieces. The boys had fun making them. When i pulled out the apples jared wanted nothing to do with it- and Spencer just wanted to eat the candy- but eventually they both go into it. I remember making similar ones when i was really little- though there was usually a lot more candy involved. I new it would be a waste of money to buy more 'cause my boys wouldn't be eating it anyway. gumdrops were sufficient!

We went from having no snow- to being covered. and now it's FREEZING which means it won't melt. Anyone know how to rake frozen leaves? Our leaves hadn't even fallen off yet. Now, of course, they are like crazy. but they are just freezing to the snow. Who knows what kind of mess we are going to have come spring!

The boys were BEGGING jason to take them out while i was finishing the food. They have been waiting for snow forever!

We are all so grateful to have each other and be a happy eternal family! I think the one thing that we talk about the most, and are the most excited about this year has definitely got to be the upcoming arrival of baby gorilla! The boys know that after thanksgiving is christmas- which means baby will be here soon!!!!!!!

In Fairness

For those that have entered our little contest (see side bar)

THIS BABY IS ALREADY OVER 5 POUNDS!!!

I'm just saying..... in case you want to adjust your weight guesses!!!!


(and the length is equally proportioned)

Delicious!

FLOUR TORTILLA

+

LOTS OF KETCHUP

+

CANNED CORN

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ONE HAPPY JARED AND TWO GROSSED OUT PARENTS!

I wish I could tell him he can't eat such a thing- but if he is willing to try ANYTHING new,
I'll let him.
Even if it looks REALLY gross!

Time for a little Game!

So, I'm not sure if anyone even reads my sad blog anymore......... which is totally my fault. oh well. But I've seen this fun online game on a few blogs and thought I'd throw it out there if anyone wants to join in.

I've officially passed the 30 week mark (i'll be 31 weeks tomorrow) and since we aren't finding out the gender of this little baby gorilla (that is what jared and spencer call it) a guessing game is all the more exciting....right?? :)

All you need to do is CLICK THIS LINK RIGHT HERE or the box at the bottom of the post or on my sidebar..... and it will take you to the game. I think you have to register- but it's free and no annoying emails come from it. Take a guess at all the different stats of Baby Gorilla, and we shall see who is the winner.

I thought about giving hints- what the baby is measuring now and different common things from my last 2 pregnancies.......but i don't think i'm going to. Just take a stab in the dark, it'll be fun!

I will tell you that my original due date is Jan 8.......... but that's all!


GOOD LUCK----

Trick-OR-Treat

Can you figure out who is on Jason's pumpkin??





We went trick-or-treating with Zoia again this year- it's becomeing a fun tradition! We got very lucky with the weather, it stopped raining just as we started. It was PERFECT fall weather.

It was quite funny- at the first house the kids all ran up to the door. I reminded them to say "trick-or-treat!" and Z turned around and said "but i'm not allowed to talk to strangers!" and started walking off the porch. she was very serious. After a quick explanation that this one night it's ok to say that one thing- she was set!

Then Jared ran down the middle of the street yelling at the top of his lungs " I LOVE HALLOWEEN! IT'S THE BEST DAY EVER! I GET CANDY!!!" -- and for those of you who don't know this- that is a VERY ironic statement coming from him. he DOES NOT like very many candies. he HATES chocolate- will only eat about half a dumb dumb. I laughed really hard.

Even lil spencer kept up with older ones. running from house to house was his favorite part. and i LOVED watching every minute of it!