Turkey Day!

We headed to the island to spend Thanksgiving with my family after work on Wednesday. But first, Mr. Midge made his amazingly scrumptious pies! Two pumpkins and an apple, so beautiful, so delicious!


We arrived at my parents house on Thursday morning for a big family breakfast. Most everyone was there and awake for it, and we enjoyed hanging out with the munchkins before dad, Kevin, and I got down to the serious business of cooking Thanksgiving dinner!

Jackson got his first haircut last week, doesn't he look so handsome!? His curls were over 7 inches long when straighten out, it was definitely time to let them go. He looks like such a big boy now! And see Joe in the background, first time I've seen him for 5 months! He had a great trip to Europe, and I'm so glad to have him home!

My happy little guy! He finally said "ball" on Thursday, that was a tough one to get him to say. I think he is playing us all, and he can actually speak full sentences, but he doesn't think we are worthy of hearing them! :)

So cute! I love my little men! Nate has his first girlfriend!

Jackson loves coloring, although I think he likes throwing the crayons most! And he does it lefty sometimes!

The whole family minus me! We had such a wonderful dinner, and really enjoyed everyone's company. This was the first time we had to have a second table, our family has grown so much in the last few years, but we haven't all been together! It made it a lot more comfortable!

Kevin and I both had to head to work early on Friday, which was rough, but now we are back on the island at his parents' house, cooking up another round of Thanksgiving dinner while they drive down from Bellingham Thanksgiving with Adam, Erin, and Corbin. We're sad that we don't get to see them for Turkey Day, one of the drawbacks to alternating which holidays we spend with each family. We'll get the hang of it! Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. " -Proust

Babysitting at our house!

We've had a busy week of visits, starting with my parents coming for dinner last week, Matthew, Terri and the boys on Thursday, Kevin's parents on Friday, and today we babysat for Jackson and Nate while Matthew was off at a wine tasting party and Terri was home sick. We love having people over here, there is so much more room to enjoy company, and we can actually sit at the dinner table instead of on the couch and floor like we did at our apartment!

We've made a lot of progress in the house unpacking, putting up pictures, and figuring out how we want to live in it! We've got a pretty good list going of all the things we want to change and fix and rip up and replace hanging on the fridge, and I am looking forward to getting some projects under our belts! For now though, we are just loving being in our own space, and really loving having people over all the time!

And now, some gratuitous nephew photos. Nope, you don't get to see the house yet, I haven't gotten around to those photos! :)

Jackson loves this puzzle I got him awhile back, and is starting to figure out lots of the animal noises. Today we worked a lot on pig and cat sounds!

My handsome boys! Nate and Jackson are so much fun together! They just love each other so much!

We headed out to the park for some whiffle ball, and while I tried to play on the playground with Jackson, he was much more into playing ball with the big boys!

Awwww :)

Halloween!

We took a break from unpacking our new house to head to Jeff and Kate's annual Halloween party on Friday night. This year, we were finally prepared with costume ideas well ahead of time, so we didn't have to get stressed out (although the final parts of my costume didn't fall into place until a few hours before the party!). It was nice to get out of the house for awhile and see all the great costumes everyone had on!

We went in tandem this year, as a bee and bee keeper! Kevin's uncle Mark used to keep bees at their house, so we borrowed the uniform for the evening, and it looked great!

He thinks his get-up will protect him, but we all know who will win this battle!

Got him!

Our host Jeff went as the Pregnant Man. The resemblance is a little too uncanny!

Robin is the Ministry of Silly Walks, from the Monty Python sketch. He refused a video appearance, but his walk was quite silly!

Kate was a fairy, who liked to eat other fairies!

This is God's Gift to Women, my favorite costume of the night!

Kevin and Robin strike a pose

A fellow winged wonder, a ladybug!

We had a great time, but were so exhausted from moving that we didn't stay out terribly late. On Halloween, we stuck close to home in anticipation of the bajillions of trick or treaters we thought we would get living out here. Alas, not many showed up, mostly teenagers. We got a few cute little kids, but no where near as many as we would get on Phinney Ridge. We will be eating a LOT of candy. Now we know! We did meet a couple of the neighbors who have young kids, which was nice, though they were all in costume so I'll have to be reintroduced later! Hope everyone had a great Halloween weekend!