Thanksgiving 2010

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year, especially with Grandma and Grandpa as our surprise guests! Here are some shots from our day.

Grandma and the boys playing a few computer games before we headed to the Rice's.
Cole surprised us with how long he sat still for Grandma!
Tom working hard to help Bryan unload our 3 tons of pellets.
Lee was very smart to get a family photo before the day really got underway! Thanks Kellen and Bekah for being our great photographer's!
Cole outside looking in, he lingered by the front door while the big boys were out back, he was a little frightened by the chickens.
Reed longing to be outside with the big boys...soon and then I will be kid free at the table!!
Nina and Lee relaxing after our wonderful meal.
A sleepy Reed being rocked by Uncle Robb in the rocker.
The big boys finally surfaced for dessert!
Braeden showing me his goodies!
Reed finally gave into his sleep!
My favorite picture of Thanksgiving, Tom leading us all in song!
Reed looking at Shaun in disgust, he did not love Shaun's singing, I'm not sure why because he definitely sings better than most of us! At one point Reed started to cry and told Shaun he was yucky, thankfully Shaun was not offended.


Kellen showing Cole her cool magnets.

Leaves!

It was so nice out today so we decided (well, I decided because I wanted pictures) to rake some leaves for jumping. If you have not been to our house to see it, it is kind of hard to imagine just how many leaves we have, let's just say it borders ridiculous! The boys all had tons of fun and I think they were actually outside for 4 hours straight raking and making forts out of the leaves. The first picture is of them waiting for the "ok" to run and jump in the pile


Reed would live outside if we let him, his smile is this big every time he is out there. This is how he brought leaves to the pile, inevitably he would drop about half before he got there!
Here they go! Take a look at Cole in this picture...
....I zoomed in and cut the other kids out because Cole just looked so hilarious running into the leaf pile holding his nose! I didn't even notice he was doing this until later at night when I uploaded the pictures, I was literally laughing out loud.

Luke Soccer

Alright these first two pictures are obviously not Luke playing soccer but they are of Reed at soccer, I couldn't resist posting them because they are too funny! Reed had to borrow Grammy's gloves because his little hands were freezing!
Team huddle in between quarters
Luke passing off to Braeden, those two are really going to be something a few years from now!


He shoots....
....he scores!!
Running back after a goal

I'm pretty sure Luke is forcing Braeden to give him a high five!

Halloween 2010

Another Halloween has come and gone and as usual the boys had a great time, especially Jack with no broken arm this year! Here are some pics from our night.

Jack

Luke

Cole

Cole sleeping on our way to Amy and Kevin's to trick or treat, he thinks he's ready to give up his naps....not so sure about that!

Reed was the cutest Indian, Nina found this at a tag sale and it is just the cutest costume!

Cousins! 2 pirates, 1 Indian, 1 knight, 1 skeleton and 1 banana!

Oliver is just the cutest!! I would also vote this world's best baby costume!

Henry was less than pleased that I was snapping pictures of him!

Kevin and the banana

Thumb in!

Reed and his buddy Owen, they are so cute together! We had fun trick or treating with the old James St. crew!

Trick or treating took a lot out of Oliver!

Cole Rides a Two Wheeler!

Bryan was messing around with Cole yesterday on the little two wheeler and to our surprise he actually wanted to learn, I wouldn't say he's an expert or anything but at least he's willing to try! He tends to throw the towel in after he tries something once but he is trying really hard to get the hang of this, we still have some more practice to do but I think soon he will be racing around with his brothers!!