Thanksgiving

Shelley and I went over to Grandma's house to fix (and eat) our Thanksgiving dinner. It was nice to have a nice relaxing day and enjoy a good home cooked meal.
Since Shannon and Josh were in Texas visiting Mom and Dad no one was left to carve to turkey so I decided to take a stab at it. This is the before picture....

This is the during picture...

and this is the after picture. I think I did good for the first time. It wasn't as neat as Dad of Josh would have done, but it still tasted good!!!

After dinner we took a walk up to the new building at Wesley Willows to see where Grandma's new apartment. She is really looking forward to getting in there!

We also went to see a movie in the afternoon. We missed the rest of the family, but I think it was a good day. We have alot to be thankful for!!!

Another wedding

My good friends Melissa and Thomas are getting married in May. The girls that were in town went to David's Bridal on Friday night and got the dresses all picked out and ordered. It was alot of fun to just get together and have a few good laughs.

This is the 5th wedding I will get to be in! By the time I get married I will have things all figured out :)

Fun Weekend

My friend from high school came into town this weekend so I had a great time catching up with her. Sara went to ISU down in Bloomington and ended up getting married and living there. Even though it is hard to have her living a ways away, it is nice to have weekends like this! We got to go see the movie fireproof on Saturday. If you don't know anything about it, I would encourage you to look into it! It is a Christian film that has Kirk Cameron in it. It isn't in all theaters, but we are lucky to have it here in Rockford!

I also got Bella clipped this weekend. When I picked her up she had these cute little bows in her hair. I haven't seen her with bows since she was a little puppy. She looks adorable! It is so hard to get a good picture of a black dog...you can never see her eyes! :)

Trick-or-Treat

I got to go meet Shannon and the kids for trick-or-treating! It was so much fun to watch Lydia (and her little friend Morgan) get so excited about getting candy. I don't think either one of them ever really said "tick-or-treat" but they got the concept of ringing the door bell and getting candy. :)

Since the weather was so nice even Joshua got to get out and enjoy it! He was a little bumble bee.

Lydia was a beautiful princess! I think she enjoyed the dressing up as much as the candy.

Joshua in his 1st Halloween shirt. He is getting to be so much fun!

I am so glad I got to enjoy that with them. I even got stew for dinner! For those of you who don't know...that is a King tradition!

Halloween parties

Friday at work we celebrated Halloween all day! I was so much fun to see the kids so excited about their costumes. It was the first year I have gotten to participate with activities. They got to go trick-or-treating around the building to different rooms where some of our staff was handing out candy.

It was alot of kids roaming the halls, but they had so much fun!!

The three and four year olds went over the the hospital to sing and put a little show on so we decided to load up our babies (all dressed up) in a buggy and go watch. This was our little black cat. He had a banana costume cut it didn't work to put him in the buggy since it didn't have a place for the buckle. :)

After the walk and trick-or-treating the babies were so tired! I thought this was a perfect picture opportunity.

In the past, it has been the older kids that get to have all the fun, but this year they tried to get everyone involved!