Thanksgiving and the Start of the Christmas Season

We enjoyed watching the kindergarten Thanksgiving skit with Macy this year. She and her friend Abigail were the turkeys.

When the kids are finished with the skit the parents get a chance to take on their rolls.  We then enjoyed a lunch with both of our school girls.

She has a candy addiction.  Some days she will wake up asking for candy. I tried to tuck their bags in the corner of the butler's pantry, but she knew they were there.  She would usually grab the small stool to reach up there, but this time she pushed the kitchen chair all the way across the kitchen.  Did she think I wouldn't notice??

Putting up the Christmas tree.

The one and only picture we took on Thanksgiving. 

So many more fun things to see and do over the month of December and the girls are so excited to get started on all of them!

More Fall Fun

I love this time of year and all of the fun things that go along with it. Fall Festivals. (Didn't make it to one.) Pumpkin Patches. (Not here either unless you count the field trip where the girls didn't get anywhere near a pumpkin except in the store.) Playing at the park. (Made it to the neighborhood playground once.) Playing outside in the beautiful weather. Well that one the kids have had a lot of. Instead we (and by we I mean mostly Marc) have spent every. single. weekend. trying to make our HOA happy. Granted the landscaping and porch staining had to be done, but there's nothing like some grumpy people who are extremely rude and threaten you with fines to get you spending most of the month of October working on appeasing them.  We have never met such rude people (and others who give in to whatever they want).  Thankfully we have met a few very kind people as well in the neighborhood.  And while the HOA saga continues, we are praying that we are at the end of it and they will back down.  I think our Disney vacation later this month is exactly what our family needs - time away with our family. But our yard sure does look good now!

Fall Fun

We took the girls to the Kroger shopping center about a week ago.  They called it a fall festival, but it was just a time for the kids to walk around and get some candy from the local businesses.  Other than getting candy, the girls enjoyed getting their faces painted.

Macy chose a heart with a rainbow.

Kayla chose a crown.

And Brooke chose "pink." A pink butterfly suited her perfectly.