Snow, Turkeys and a Birthday

Within the last 48 hours we've enjoyed all 3 to the fullest!

Holly had a birthday today and we celebrated tonight with some of her friends.

They had a couple Lego building contests.

Played a little Lego Rockband, too.

And ate some Lego Cake Pops.  Not my finest attempt but they're a work in progress.

They should have looked a little more like these accept on sticks. Holly brought these Cake Balls for her birthday treat on Wednesday...yummy!

Does anyone remember these gems? They've got to be 25 years old at least! My kids love it when Grandma brings treasures from her house.

Anyone else have kids paging through the catalogs? Lucas' favorite right now is the Cabela's one, making his Dad proud and me a little worried! :)

Holly and Mia attempted to stay up until Holly's birthday. Eric and I both suggested they do otherwise.

Thanksgiving morning we woke up to this! Everyone was just a little excited!

Adorable hat thanks to Amy and The Abbey Project.

Perfect packing and snowball snow!


Lucas is just showing how we all really felt after our yummy Thanksgiving dinner.


Our day was complete when Grandpa and Grandma R. showed up after a long, slow drive across the country.

Earlier this week the first grade classes all got together for a Thanksgiving feast of popcorn and apple juice and some singing and a movie, too. This class is huge and they all got together in one room to celebrate.

Joey isn't to sure he likes me hanging around school so much and popping in whenever I want with my camera. Too bad, buddy! :)
Thanks for catching up with us!  Hope you all are enjoying a great Thanksgiving weekend.  We've got much to be thankful for.

Happy Thanksgiving!

So thankful for the blessings God has abundantly showered on us!

Livin' Inside Out

In An Upside Down World


The sixth grade class along with their fabulous music teacher are putting on an awesome musical this weekend! You won't want to miss it! More pictures to come!

Mr. Gourdhead

I loved Mia's take on "carving" her pumpkin this year.  Rather clever and way less messy.  The funny thing about our pumpkin carving was we did it on November 1.  No one seemed to really care, either! :)

Working together...

to fill up those candy buckets! (Thanks, Grandma, for hauling out your "costume making machine" once again to make some fabulous costumes! The sweatshirts are being worn daily now that Halloween is over)

to get homework done.

on a new family project.

to make sure all library books are returned on time! Have your kids come home with these yet? They're super cool bookmarks. Remember the "scratch and sniff stickers"? Well, these are just "sniff" bookmarks and the kids get them when they return their library books on time. Pretty cool incentive, Mrs. Kok!

to make our days start just a little better. I've started a new job at school this year and Tyler has started a new routine because of it. I drop the rest of the kids off by the middle school and head over to the Central Office. Tyler always comes with me, heads in to say "Good Morning" to the great girls I work with in the office and then stops in at Mr. Kok's office for a little chat (and a piece of chocolate) before heading out the door to school.

Life's pretty good around here!