Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you have a wonderful day giving thanks for all you've been given.  We're celebrating with 50+ Hofwegens and Friends.  Should be a good time!  Rumor has it the weary travelers from So Cal arrived late, late last night.  We're so glad they made it.

Happy Birthday, Holly Joy!

We love you!!! 

Let the birthday fun begin

Holly got to celebrate her birthday at school today. And the festivities were super big because she's in class this year with Kaiden and they share a birthday. Their birthdays aren't until next week but they get all of next week off (and the rest of this week was super busy at school). Eric and Kathy had lunch at the special birthday table with Kaiden, Holly and they each got to choose a couple friends.

A little of this, a little of that

Just another Saturday morning. Thanks for breakfast, Uncle Dave!

This photo cracks me up! They're dividing up the trains, they take turns choosing until they're all gone. Joey is pretty much running the show! This is the morning he told Tyler he wasn't allowed to match him! (see further down in post for details)

Mia has been into folding the laundry and putting it away. Something I could get used to! Thanks, MIA!!!!

And one from a couple weeks ago....the day after Halloween!

And just a few funnies from the last little while.

I gave Tyler some Peach yogurt for lunch and after he took a bite I asked "How is it?" and he replied "I was afraid you were going to ask that."

Then Lucas asked for a banana and I said I only had 1 left and it was brown and spotted. He replied "It's just decayed." I asked if he still wanted it and he said "of course, it's just decayed!"

A few weeks ago we were out on a walk and there were lots of leaves on the ground. Mia asked "Why are leaves symmetrical?" Hmmmmm, good question! And then we went on to wonder "Are all leaves symmetrical?"

One morning I was on the couch reading and Tyler and Joey had just woken up and were coming up the stairs talking. Joey was telling Tyler he wasn't allowed to match him today. They don't often match anymore, at least I don't make them match, once in a while they'll just pick out the same clothes so I found this particularly funny...what made today different?!?

Guess Who?

This one was to good to pass up! I used to catch fish, too! :) Thanks, Dad...for the trip down memory lane and for taking me fishing! My Dad has a new toy...it scans slides and makes them into .jpgs...so we've been reminiscing.

What letter?

Show and Tell

Every Friday

3 items starting with the same letter

The letter X about killed me but this week was a little easier!

And then more fish! Heading into winter, Eric has done his job of hunter and gatherer. :)

Halloween

Here's a little peek at what everyone was dressed up as last night. We didn't get a great group photo for a couple reasons. One was that someone :) was changing their costume about 4 times before they found one they were happy with. (and yes, Mom, that person did wear the costume you sent them to the fall festival on Wednesday night at church, so all was not in vain). And speaking of the church fall festival, I had my camera with me all night and didn't take 1 picture...what in the world! Anyways, Mia was a sailor, Holly was a Dutch Girl and the boys were cowboys. I may have ratted out the guilty party there but oh well!
The mother load was once again acquired at Uncle Dave's (full size Cadberry candy bars...sorry Erin, Lee, Brett, Lindsey, Michael and Parker...we'd love to share!) Actually, they got the mother load everywhere they went. It seemed every house we went to a goody bag prepared just for them awaited them.