A Little Update

Here are just a few random pictures from the past week of the kids. Not much is new but here are some pictures from today and from Thanksgiving.

A sad attempt at a Christmas card picture. I took so many pictures that are just too awful to even post, I firmly believe kids between the ages of 4 and 10 should probably not be photographed. It's impossible to get a "real" smile out of them. Sadly this was the best we got!
Here is a pretty good picture of 3 kids too bad one of them is not mine!

Henry waiting on the porch for Jack to get off the bus.

Robbie and Cole on Thanksgiving. This is one of the few pictures I took that day but I thought it was pretty cute and that I should post it.

Luke's Feast

Luke's preschool had their Thanksgiving Feast today. Luke had a little trouble in the beginning. The kids all marched out and sang some songs for the parents, Luke started to cry as soon as they entered the room. We later found out it was because his headband was ripped in the back.

Henry and Cole dined in the stroller, Henry really liked his first taste of Thanksgiving food!
Henry and Uncle Bryan playing while we waited for the kids.

Here is Luke trying to hold it together until the songs were over. (it was pretty sad)

Luke completely turned his back to the crowd when they first entered the room.

Here are all of the kids lined up! Miss Lisa tried real hard to get Luke to sing.

Leaves, Leaves and More Leaves!

The boys and Bryan spent the whole day yesterday cleaning up leaves. Our new yard has the most leaves I have ever seen! They completely cover our driveway yard and roof. The boys were very big helpers yesterday and they have gotten most of the back yard done.

Here are Luke and Bryan dragging another tarp load into the woods.

This was on Sunday before church. Bryan and Luke spent about an hour cleaning off the driveway.

This is the view of our driveway from the front porch, you can't even see the driveway!

The Move and More....

On Halloween we moved into our new house. This is what we were faced with at one in the afternoon, and we had to be completely unloaded that day! Oh and did I mention this was only one of the trucks, the other one fortunately was not this full! Thankfully we had a lot of help which we really appreciated!
This is one of the only pics from the move but it is by far my favorite. This was not at all staged either, actually I made poor Robbie and Ryan wait there while I got my camera. I'm not really sure how Robbie ended up under the dresser but don't worry he was not injured during this process!

Here are Cole and Henry playing on Thursday, Henry started coming to our house 3 days a week. He's done great playing in all of this mess while I sort through it!

Last night Bryan and the boys broke up the boxes that I have been piling on the front porch. Cole came out to check things out after his bath.

Hopefully the next pictures I take of our front porch look better than this mess!!

Brown's Harvest

On Friday afternoon we went on another hayride at Brown's Harvest. My friend Lynne sets it up every year for a bunch of friends to go on the hayride together and to play and get pumpkins.


Here is the group that went this year, it's pretty amazing all of those kids sat for that long!
Cole and Natalie having a conversation on the hayride.

Jack and Luke enjoying the hayride.

Cole loved the slide, I think he mostly liked landing in the big pile of hay at the bottom.

Luke's Harvest Fest

Luke's preschool had their harvest fest on Thursday where the kids get to wear costumes and play lots of games and enjoy lunch at school.

Here is Luke trying to eat the donut off the string, he loved this game and ate quite a few donuts.
Luke takes a turn at the golf station.

Cole's turn at golf was not quite as successful as Luke's.

Here are Elmo and Optimus Prime (not what I would like him to be but it's what he picked out and quite frankly I'm just too busy with the move to worry about it!)

Luke standing in the line up of kids. The kids come in marching in a parade and then line up for a picture.

The Ecuador Sweaters

Here are some pictures of the boys with their sweaters on that Grandma got them while she was in Ecuador.