Luke's Preschool Thanksgiving Feast

Luke loves Preschool so much and we were so glad that our whole family was able to attend his feast!

Here he is with his little friend, Gigi and her daddy. They are in Sunbeams together too!

Luke is into the squinty eyes! (And that's not sweat on Jacob - it's water! :)

Here he is with Clark singing their Turkey song! So funny!

There was lots of yummy food and fun crafts for us to make together.

"On a Midnight Train to Georgia . . . "

Okay, so it wasn't exactly midnight - more like 9am, but the boys and I hopped on the local train that took us to the airport to take us to Georgia. Either way, we were THRILLED to be going home!
(This trip was actually mid-October. You can see how behind I am!) 

The Neilson family flew us down to watch these guys while their parents were on vacation.

Then we got to stay an extra week after that. Yipee!

We did lots of FUN things! Here is the Reader's Digest version:

Apple Picking with the Mildenhall's

Miles and Luke each ate about 4 apples as we picked! They couldn't get enough!

We went to my mom's school's Fall Festival

Visited our old neighbors who we miss SO much!

The boys REALLY enjoyed mom and dad's nice big yard!

Mom came with us to the Atlanta Children's Museum

My boys with "The Brothers" after some sports at the park

We went to the Ward Tailgating Party. We didn't know about it, so we wore the only color we had.

On the back of our shirts I put signs that said: 

"This red is for OHIO STATE! NOT Utah!" Ha!

We went with mom to see Toy Story 3.

(This is Luke's interpretation of Buzz Lightyear - NOT Hitler!)

The boys got a huge kick out of rolling golf balls all over my parent's kitchen

and helping clean up the driveway

and painting with water colors

and eating ice cream bars

and surfing on Lola's blanket around the house

and celebrating Miles' birthday a little early.

Other fun moments: 

Miles JUMPED into Sierra's arms the minute we got there. 

Luke, Miles and Papa had an afternoon at the park together.

Kami got to have a Girls Night Out at Meechie's Frozen Yogurt.

As Miles was falling asleep, he would sweetly ask for Papa ("Papa? Papa?") - and pretty much everything else he did he wanted to tell or show Papa every time.

Luke had playdates with most of his best buddies.

We ate at Chow Baby! Awesome!

We went to Ballard's Backroom.

It was a GREAT trip! 12 days went by so fast. 

Till Christmas . . . 

My 31st Birthday!

I am SOOO behind on my posts, but I just have to say how thankful I am for great friends and family who made me feel so loved today! Phone calls, cards, facebook posts, emails, text messages, packages, gifts, meals, time out without the kids, etc - there are so many ways we can connect with people and let them know we are thinking of them and I am grateful for that! 

THANK YOU!

Halloween!

This year, Luke insisted upon being a Pirate again . . . and, like last year, we kept Miles in the Feline species and he was a Lion!

This was Halloween last year - I couldn't resist a flashback!

I am ashamed to admit this, but this was the first year our kids have carved a pumpkin. I know, I know. Deprived. But, we had a GREAT time this year. Neither of the boys wanted to touch the gross insides, but Luke finally did and had a blast with it!

(Don't worry - that'a a pen. NOT a knife! :)

We took the kids to the church Trunk-or-Treat/WardHalloween dinner.

Good times.

Mmmm. . . . me like donuts!

Okay, so I haven't gotten around to blogging about our new apartment, but we live on the second of this huge 125 year old Victorian home. The owners live on the first floor and they decorated the front porch so well! It was "VERY SPOOKY!" (At least that's what my kids said!) 

This skeleton was their favorite thing. If you make noise near it - it starts to dance and sing a song that goes something like this: "The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out . . . " Sweet.

Every time we were on the porch they were screaming "BOO!" at it to get it to do it's thang! Ha!