Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving! I picked up Little Meme (my grandmother) in Garden City on Wednesday. Big Meme (my mom) and Pepper (my dad) got in late Wednesday night. Ethan was so excited to have all the extra attention. Amanda and Coley had obligations at church and weren't able to come. Tanner and Jessica stayed in Colorado.

We had mexican food on Thursday because John had to work all day, so we celebrated Thanksgiving on Friday.

Ethan, Little Meme, and Big Meme cooking! Wonder who's doing the taste testing?

Tiff, Jon and the kids came on Friday to eat with us. We stuck the kids outside after lunch! Looks like they are having a blast!

Tammy, Will and their kids also joined us. John got some sweet pictures of the twin girls!

It was sad not having our whole family together, but I realized that god wants us to bless others by opening our home so that his love is made known!

Tuck me in!

We had a full weekend. I had a busy 12 hour shift on Saturday. Ethan and I were just laying in my bed and I was dozing off( it was just 9pm). He said "Momma, can I tuck you in?" I agreed and he proceeded to pull the covers up to my chin. I said " Are you going to pray for me?" He started, " Thank you Jesus for the rain and thank you Jesus, Amen." He got down and said " I love you mom, goodnight." Such a precious moment I will always have "tucked away" in my memory.

Meme's Birthday

Ethan and I drove to Amanda's this last week. Mom met us there. We got together to celebrate Meme's (my mom's) birthday. We had so much fun! We had a babysitter for wednesday so we got to shop and have lunch at Craigo's Pizza. We enjoyed the time to just talk.

I couldn't resist getting a picture of these two. Ethan just thought is was the coolest thing to be able to climb into bed with Landri!

Carmel Apples!

I had a whole bunch of apples at home that we needed to eat, so we made some carmel apples. I knew Tiffany, Jon, Thyme, and Cole would be coming over and we could share our sugary creation. Ethan just licked the carmel and sprinkles up while John did all the work.

YUM! They were great!

Tiffany and Thyme were cats! Cole was a ninja! Jon was... well you guess! Ethan couldn't quit staring at him. I couldn't get him to look at the camera.

FUN!

After a couple weeks of being sick and 2 trips to the doctor, I am finally feeling better. I was ready to have some fun! I found the cutest fall craft in the Family Fun Magazine and we had a blast playing with the paint. I colored a tree with brown marker, then I made a template so Ethan could paint the leaves with a sponge to make a tree!

This was our final product below. Turned out great we made aunt Tiffany one to put up in her room.

We finally got to go pick out some pumpkins! I didn't take the camera with me because I sometimes get so caught up in taking pictures that I miss just being with my family. But, I couldn't resist not taking pictures of Ethan's first pumpkin carving. He wasn't in to sticking his fingers in the pumpkin. It was so slimy!

I finally got him a big spoon and he went to town, while John started carving!

If you can't tell we carved a cross in our pumpkin. It just reminds me to shine the light of jesus on all holidays. We had such a great time, I even made some sweet and spicy pumpkin seeds. They were YUMMY!