Thankful for Thanksgiving

We were so blessed this year to spend Thanksgiving day with our dear friends, The Wheeler. We have been friends with them for over 8 years now and they never stop blessing our socks off. Our kids are like siblings (sometimes that's not a good thing) and Billy and Danielle have been such great ministry partners for both Tadd and Charity, as well as great best friends. We can't say it enough. WE LOVE YOU WHEELERS!!!!!
It has become our thanksgiving tradition that the kids (with Billy narrating) act out the Pilgrims story, complete with Pilgrim hats and Indian head dresses, all made by the kids of course. Here are a couple pictures from out reinactment. We hope you all had a blessed holiday with your family and friends, with many more to come.

We had a fun Veteran's day, we got to the school for the Veteran's Day Assembly and the kids enjoy hearing the choir and seeing them honor the veteran's as they tell where and when they served. The boys got to walk in the parade with their Boyscout and Cubscout troops. It was very cold but they didn't mind because they provided cookies and hot cocoa for the parade participants before hand.

Kenya found the play doh we keep around the house for when younger kids come over and she started baking up a storm, (figurativly speaking of course) she made a cake for Dad's birthday in December, some donuts with paper sprinkles and some brownies with paper towel frosting. No cookies cutter shapes for this girl.

The kids have an art class at a local gallery and they make fun crafts like these masks, mom loves having them do something she is not in charge of, that way thier art peices always surprise her too.

Grub and Games

We had a fun harvest party at church on the 31st. Kenya dressed up as Cleopatra, Annecy went as Tina Turner and Elijah was Bo Bo Fet (the bounty hunter in Star Wars). We had a crock pot soup pot luck and lots of booths with games and plenty of candy. The kis had lots of fun and coming down off the sugar high the next day was not quite as fun but well worth it. Hope you had a great one as well.