Happy Holidays!

Let me begin by wishing you all a Safe and Happy Holiday Season!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We had a very nice time eating dinner with Joe's family. This year the dinner was at Bruce and Lorene's house and it seemed a lot less stressful this year and way more enjoyable. The dinner was very nice- Everyone brought a part of the dinner and something for desert. There wasn't too much food but just enough for the dinner and everyone to have some leftovers to take home. After we ate and visited with Joe's family for a few hours we went to my parents house. We arrived just in time to look at Karena and Steve's honeymoon and wedding pictures and play games. We had a lot of fun playing and visiting with my family as well.

Today we pulled out the Christmas decorations and have been working on getting them up. Everyone worked together pretty well to get it done quickly. The tree is up and decorated and most of the random decorations are scattered throughout the family room and kitchen. Dad is in charge of putting up the lights outside.

The kids have been working hard the last few days doing chores around the house to earn the money they need to buy gifts for each other. Little Joe and I have even been shopping together and he picked out presents for Dad, Rebecca, and Savannah. We even picked up Savannah's birthday present. He is very proud of his choices.

I on the other hand have not even started Christmas shopping yet. I am not sure what I am going to get for any of my kids this year. I hope something comes to me before it is too late.

Again, I hope you all have a Wonderful Holiday Season and We Love You!

I VOTED, DID YOU?

Ok, to have a little bit of fun let me know how your voting experience was.

Voting took me 1 hour and 40 mins. I have hoping for an hour, but it was not too bad. I wish I had something funny to share for the time I spent in line, but nothing. It was the typicall stand in line and talk or text on your phone. I exchanged a few words a couple of times with the people right in front or behind me but not much was said.

Let me know how it went for you.

Kiley Walks!

Today Kiley finally took some real steps on her own. Granted she was motivated by m&ms, but she did take several good steps and we were able to get her to repeat it until the candy was gone. She stills struggles with her balance a little but I have a feeling that it won't be long now before she crawls no more.

Halloween

Where had a pretty good Halloween this year. The kids got TONS of candy. Thursday Night was our Ward's Trunk-or-Treating. They had a little costume parade and played the Charlie Brown Halloween movie using Joe's LCD Projector. Then last night I took them to Kim's for the McKnight's Annual Halloween dinner. They make up crazy Halloween names for the dinner food and the kids order food without knowing what they are getting. It doesn't take them long to figure out what they really want and what the new name of it is. It think all of the kids really like this. It went really fast last night because there were more teenagers and adults then there are little kids. Then we join Teddie in going around the block for more candy. We drove by Grandma McKnight's house and then went to Teddie's neighborhood for a trip around her block. It was more than enough candy and Kiley was clearly done. We hope you all had a great holiday and watch out because the Turkey is on the way.