Thankful Day

I had a double whammy this year! I volunteered to host two meals this Thanksgiving at our home. A larger than life "brunch" around 11am and a dinner at around 5pm. Thankful there wasn't much food prep on my end. Each family member is an expert at one course or another so they stepped in an prepared that for me.

The kids got real excited about decorating place cards this year. Trey wrote all the mens names and Bre did the womans. Then Trey took a stab at choosing where everyone should sit. I couldn't believe how good he did. He got husbands by their wives and Pop-pop and Grammy at the head of the table. He's good!Jason and Dar flew in for the holiday along with their kidos.There are all the Beiler grandkids.

Sorry, I didn't attempt to take a picture of the extended family dinner in the evening. It was too big and I would have needed a better camera and some hot shot lens to take that picture.

Is it Snowing Yet?

These little piggies want to know if it's snowing yet?

And so do these!!!

Trey got his new ice skates in the mail last week and ever since then my dining room rug has transformed into an ice skating rink.

They've got good balance on the rug....but I'm sure the ice will be a different story. Trey did a little skating last year but this will be Bre's first attempt.


Look out amish neighbors....here we come!! (our little amish neighbors are superb on the ice and they're only 7 years old)

Little Late

Well, I'm a little late on this one but it was fun nonetheless. I always loved carving pumpkins. We did it as kids and it was always something my dad was in charge of....being an artist and all, our pumpkins were always brilliant!! I have a lot to live up too.

Last year it was smiley face or scary face. This year it was a tiger or cheetah for Trey. I opted for the cartoon-ish, sorta tiger-ish face.

Breanne wanted a butterfly or Mittens the cat (from the movie Bolt) All my attempts at a Mittens type cartoonish sorta cat looked just like Treys tiger. Soooo to the Internet I went and to the printer I printed a blown up copy of one!Just by looking at this photo can you tell who my neat freak with a spoon and my I love gettin' dirty kids are?Every year the kids pick out the tiny cute pumpkins in the patch and as much as I try to talk them out of it they become too attached to the small ones and I cave every time! Unfortunately when Arlan saw the size of them he turned red in the forehead meaning.. How the heck am I going to carve those things, Dana!! So out came the power tools.

I was worth the hassle don't you think???? Well, I like them. Arlan doesn't want to talk about it till next October!