Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to my blog friends and family. I am so sorry I haven't been posting much lately. Things have been so crazy busy and the kids schedules these days don't offer much alone time anymore. And when I do have alone time there is just so much to get done. So, here are a few pics of our Thanksgiving weekend. Have a wonderful week and I will try to get a few cute posts up this week for ya!

On the way up north to see family for Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving dinner with Omi, Opa, Uncle Mike and Uncle John.Jamie holding onto my legs looking up at the camera. She's my little cutie pie.
Opa gives Pete a buzz cut for his big move to AZ. :) Jamie watches on the ground while dad fixes something to eat.
Our family together for another holiday blessed with family, health, happiness and fun memories.
How kids spend holidays these days.....playing games on the laptop and games on the cell phone. What is this world coming to?
Out for pizza after two days of turkey and ham leftovers!And one more picture of Pete helping to wrap Christmas gifts today. He loved it. Every present is very well taped!

Hi!

It's been a crazy week and I have so much to share. But since Jamie is going to wake up soon I am just going to post some pics of some stuff we have been up to lately. More updates to come when I have more time, lots of time.....

The kids love to help unload the dishwasher. Do you like the naked butt and boots?
Playing.My little spaghetti eater who loves to get messy.
Making noise. Sounded like a good idea at first.....My little blue-eyed, curly-haired angel.Santa Parade downtown. Cold, very cold. But a lot of fun. The kids loved the parade and watched in awe as some very interesting things walked by. Jamie loved the dogs dressed as reindeer and the loud firetruck.
Jamie taking her gloves off.Jamie taking her hat off.Playing peek-a-boo on the way home.

Some stuff.....

Annual anniversary dinner for P.'s company Tuesday night. Nice to get dressed up every once in a while.
Lowe's Build n' Grow for dad and Pete this morning. They made a periscope. Krispy Kreme afterwards.
Cutie pie on the way to Red Robin for dinner tonight.Red Robin mac n' cheese. Bibs are useless. Talking with Santa in the mall. Yes, it's early, but this early there is no line. :) Jamie wanted nothing to do with the scary old man.

Our Kids

How are the kids? Great. They are just great. They are quickly becoming good friends. And they are quickly becoming their own person. Pete enjoys watching the Disney channel, doing puzzles and driving his Barbie Jeep. Jamie enjoys playing with her dolls, looking at books, brushing her teeth and playing in the car. Pete talks all day long. Jamie is learning to talk and I would guess she can say about 20 words right now. Pete can put clothes and shoes on by himself now. He can get his cup out of the fridge and get himself into and partially buckled in his car seat. We have entered the phase where he wants to do everything by himself. Jamie loves to dance and she loves to sleep with her baby and her owl. So precious.

Our kids are amazing. They are sweet and smart and funny. And they are darn cute.

Pictures:
Watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse together one morning.
Jamie loves to sit in this table. She has her doll, is reading her book and wearing her "Lil Gobbler" turkey shirt.
Pete playing hide n' seek behind the curtain.Our kids love peanut butter. They eat spoonfuls of it every day. They grab their jars out of the pantry, get a spoon and sit down. I wish they would eat meat instead but at least they get their protein somehow.

First

P. took Pete to his first movie the other day. Movie in the theater that is. Toy Story 3 was at the cheap theater and because Pete can hardly make it through a half hour of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse at home I was worried he wouldn't do well at the theater. Pete is a HUGE, I mean HUGE "BuzzWoody" fan. That is what he calls Toy Story, "BuzzWoody" as if it is one thing, one word. Anyway, Pete saw an ad while I was on the computer the other day and he said, "Want to see that mom." So, because I tend to get headaches from seeing movies in the theater I sent him with his dad. And......he loved it! Talked about it for days after. He would put his Woody doll in a drawer and tell me about the part in the movie where Woody gets stuck in the garbage. So cute. Here are some pics of the event. Wish I could have been there but I KNOW Jamie wouldn't have fared well. Oh, and another favorite of Pete's.... popcorn. He would eat it every day if he could. So, BuzzWoody movie and popcorn makes for a perfect night for Pete.

Pete drives Jamie around on the Jeep every day. Well, every day until it started to snow yesterday. But if they were home today, I am sure they would be on it. He drives, she sits and looks around and they are perfectly happy, for a long, long time. What, oh what will we do when we can't go outside?

Videos

My parents asked that I put up some videos of the kids for them. It's hard to take videos and almost every day they do something cute and I wish I had it on video. Especially Pete's talking. He says the funniest things and is so observant. Anyway, over the last week I tried to get a few videos. Nothing very exciting or interesting but just them in their environment and living their lives.

This video is a little older but it was too cute to not post. Pete is singing happy birthday to a dear friend of ours before we go see her at her workplace.

What Is That????!!!!!!

Snow. That's what that is. I had a panic attack when it started to fall and a heavy feeling of winter is looming over me even though it has stopped. It was only a matter of time.....

Halloweens

We celebrated Halloween pretty much all week. In fact, Pete wore his fireman costume at least 10 times this month. Here's all we did....

Wed night we went to Sunshine Church's Trunk or Treat. I took the kids because P. had to work. We met some friends there and had a fun time with them while trunk or treating for candy. The kids are great people watchers so they had a wonderful time checking out all the kids in their costumes.Friday morning I took the kids to IHOP for a free scary face pancake. They were a big hit there and enjoyed the candy and cookies on pancake the most. Friday afternoon we visited P. at work and showed off the kids to his co-workers.Saturday morning we went to a friend's church that had a Harvest Festival where we did crafts, had donuts and cider, trick or treated and watched a costume parade.Saturday night we went trick or treating in our friends neighborhood. We have done this for 3 years now, since Pete was born. And Sunday we dressed the kids up as hunters. Daddy went hunting and the kids and I went to another friends house for dinner, trick or treating and pumpkin carving.Halloween, and every holiday, is amazing with kids. I love everything about them. I love watching them experience new things, be amazed by the exciting world we live in, and share the fun things in life with them. I loved that Pete loved being a fireman and Jamie actually enjoyed wearing her ladybug dress. I think she knew she was pretty. :) We had so much fun with all of our friends celebrating the Halloween holiday together, like family almost. We have some friends here that have become our family and I am so grateful to have them to share these memories with.

One more pic of the kids. Halloween 2010 down in the books as a good one!

Love

I love this picture. And this picture.And this picture.We are still trying to have fun outside, in the cold. Is that why my kids are still sick 2 weeks later?

Trunk or Treat

Halloween Trunk or Treat at Sunshine Church

2008:2009:2010:Boy how time flies.

(I am wearing the same sweatshirt in 2008 and 2010. I knew I was doing it but I HAD to today. It's my SF Giants sweatshirt and they are in the World Series starting tonight.)

Organizing his stash.

Today....

Reach out, share a smile, ask for help, lend a hand, find a moment of beauty, be thankful for something…anything, tell someone how you feel, know that you are loved

and then do that again every single day for the rest of your life.

Eggs

Jamie loves eggs. Pete gags when he eats them. So......Pete makes Jamie eggs and everyone is happy.

Surprise in the Mail

Pete and Jamie received a sweet Halloween gift in the mail today. We were so excited to get it that we opened it in the driveway and dug in. It was a Halloween tin full of popcorn, cookies, candy, pretzels and nuts. It was a big hit and so fun to get something in the mail that you didn't expect. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa.