Thanksgiving, Erin's Run-in with the sidewalk, and a Snowman cake! :)

This year we went to my sister's house for Thanksgiving. It was nice to go there and not have to cook much at all! Ray smoked the turkeys in his smoker, and they were DELICIOUS! My Mom and Dad came as well. It was such a nice day.

Bailey, Erin, Mason, Marissa, and Cassie

The nice picture... :) Mom, Ky, Cavin, Dad, Ray, Londa, and Josh

And the goofy one (thanks Londa and Ky). Like Mother like Son there. :)

On Sunday the girls and I were out for a walk and Erin tripped. Unfortunately her hands were in her pockets so she was unable to catch herself, so she landed right on her face. She was bleeding and crying so I carried her home hoping that she didn't cut herself where she got her stitches this summer. Thankfully she didn't, but she scraped her lips, forehead, chin, cheek, nose, etc. Poor thing. If you ask her what happened she'll tell you that the sidewalk hit her. :)

This is what it looked like the next morning, the swelling had gone down a lot. Now her face is covered in scabs. :(

I am so proud of my cake! I made this snowman cake for Bunco last night at my house. My theme was Winter Wonderland so all the prizes were snowman, so of course we had to eat a snowman cake! It was hard to cut into it though-I didn't want to ruin it!

We Can Pretend

Erin came downstairs this morning wearing this lovely outfit. She thought they matched since some of the stripes are the same colors. I told her that she really didn't match well and she said: "Mom we can just pretend that I match." :) Well, wherever we go today people will know who dressed herself today!

The Truck and Our Little Indian

At school Bailey made an Indian necklace, vest and hat-and I just love the caption on the back of the vest! Interesting thing about the necklace-they strung beads and potato chunks on it. After drying, the potatos shrivel, get hard and look like rocks. I never knew that they could do that....

And...as promised...a picture of our new truck! It's a little dirty, but luckily you can't really see that in the picture. Nice, huh?

Our new truck!

Well, pictures will follow, but we bought a truck this weekend! I haven't taken any pictures yet because we came home in the snow with it so it is dirty and Josh has it at work. But we are all very excited to finally be a 2 vehicle family! :) We've managed with one car for almost 8 years now, but Josh needs the car more at work and I need the car more with the girls-and we figured a truck would be good since we always have yard waste to haul to the dump! It is a Dodge Dakota: white; 2001 with 71K miles on it, and best of all it is the 4 door variety so we can all fit in it! The girls were super excited to go get it, of course! I'll post pictures soon!

A little funny from Erin: She was helping me with the laundry yesterday and she said: "Okay, everything is out of the dryer, let's empty the wetter." :) Makes perfect sense, the dryer dries the clothes and the wetter gets them wet. I love the way her brain works! So no longer do I have a washing maching, I have a wetter machine.

Happy Halloween!

Well, here is what the girls costumes looked like this year. Bailey's rainbow costume stumped me a bit, and I'm not quite sure she exactly looks like a rainbow but she loved it and that is what counts! :) How to make Erin's pig nose got me thinking, but it turned out really cute. And don't ya love the sign on her back? All the adults we saw got a big kick out of that. She obviously doesn't understand it, but loved that people laughed when they saw it so she called it her "joke sign".




As much as the girls loved going trick-or-treating, I think they have more fun handing out the candy when they come back! They sat on the porch singing and dancing. :) Erin yelled "Happy Halloween!" to everyone that ran by, which made me smile everytime. Sometimes the girls would see some kids coming and they would grab some candy and run to the middle of the yard to meet them there. They couldn't even wait for the kids to get to the porch! Such cute girls!

A Run in With Logan's Finest...

Oops.... Today I got pulled over by a motorcycle police officer (isn't it getting too cold for those??) Erin and I were driving down the road and what do ya know, flashing lights in the rearview mirror. DANG IT! I thought the speed limit was different than it really was so Yes I was speeding. Josh loves to point out my slight lead foot so I wasn't sure if he was going to be mad or just say "I told you so" if I got a ticket. So Erin and I were just chilling in the car waiting for the police to come back when up pulls another police officer in a car! Now my heart was really racing as to what was going to happen next. lol Well, thankfully he came back with my stuff and just wrote me up a warning! I was so grateful, obviously.

As we pulled back onto the road Erin said that next time I get pulled over I should give the policeman hug, tell him I'm sorry and then give him some money if he doesn't have any!!! Already trying to brib the authorities! :) Cute girl. Needless to say, I drove the speed limit EXACTLY for the rest of our excursion.

Fun with Grandpa

Today my dad came up to have lunch and spend the day with us. It has been a while since he has come up, so it was great to see him. The girls love it when he comes to visit because he loves to sit and plays games for hours with them. :) He played Go Fish, Life, Old Maid, did 2 puzzles, etc. with the girls. It was a nice day!