Shane on Sunday

It is impossible to get a picture of this little mover, but this is the best I could do!  This was the first Sunday in December; his first, and only, Sunday in nursery at church.  We have been keeping him out of nursery because of illness and flu passing around lately.  

(Sometimes I say "Where's Shane?" to get him to look up at me, but he thought I was starting a game of Peek-a-Boo.)

He sure looks handsome on Sundays!

Thanksgiving 2012

Since nothing exciting happened between Halloween and Thanksgiving (except passing around the flu), I think I'll just post some pictures of our Thanksgiving in Idaho.  We had a  really great trip and amazing food.  We also got to see my brother's family on the drive up because they were in Utah for the holiday.  It was too short, but I'm glad we could hang out for a bit.

cousins youngest to oldest:

the girls:

  the boys:

 Thanksgiving dinner:

at my grandparents nursing home:

 dinner with Granddad:

Allison's dream come true -- eating Grandma's pumpkin pie!:

The kids also got to play laser tag with their cousins and go see a movie.  It was a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Halloween

We had a lot of fun festivities for Halloween this year.  From school and church parties to pumpkin carving and trick-or-treating, I was wiped out at the end of October!

Allison had many costume changes.  She wanted to be something different at each event.  Luckily these were all costumes we already had.

Allison as a black cat for her preschool party:

Church "Trunk or Treat" and chili cook-off (which I didn't win and I am still a little bitter.) 

 Allison and Corinne went as '80's punk rockers, Matthew was a soccer player, and Shane was a clown:

Pumpkin Carving 

(Corinne wanted a cute one, Allison wanted a scary guy, and Matthew wanted something creepy and cool):

Allison had a preschool field trip to Cornbelly's and I got to go help out:

And finally, Trick or Treating!! (Allison was Cinderella this time.)

 

I took Allison back to Cornbelly's with Corinne and Matthew right after Halloween. 

It was a beautiful warm day and not too crowded.  We had a lot of fun.

I am also the room mother for Corinne's class and I had to plan her class party too. Whew! It was a busy month! (And the day after Halloween, Shane got the stomach flu which we passed around for the next two weeks.  Fun times!) 

Fall Break

The kids had fall break for three days in October.  Tyson took those days off work so we could have "family fun days".  I can't even remember everything we did, but I did get pictures at Scheel's.  This is a new sporting goods store that has a ferris wheel, aquarium, and some pretty cool photo ops, among other things.  The kids loved it!

I wish I had blogged about this sooner, and maybe I could remember what else we did over the break!  I am glad we were able to spend some time as a family, though.