Thanksgiving Day

Me and My Honey

We spent Thanksgiving in Indy. We had a wonderful lunch at Mom's.

I brought ornaments for the kids to paint.

They seemed to enjoy it!

Gigi did really good!

Mimi got everyone a Thanksgiving gift. The girls got a stuffed Grinch and How the Grinch Stole Christmas book. Andy and I got The Elf on the Shelf!

Addi got a stuffed Santa and a Christmas shirt!

Mom and John always to a great job! Thanks for doing all the cooking! It was delicious!

Our sweet Grandma! Molly said her favorite part of the weekend was Grandma!

I love you Grandma!

Lots of cooks in the kitchen! Where are Missy and Andy?

A beautiful table! We have so much to be thankful for!

Auntie An made Molly this beautiful dress and a Christmas pillowcase and gave her bubbles! Molly wanted to wear this dress everyday! She loved it!

Can you tell she loves it? Thanksgiving night, Molly helped Mimi put up one of her trees. She had a great time, even though it fell on her and cut her cheek.

I had to take a pic of Baron's plate.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!! I am so thankful for all my beautiful family and friends! Love you all!

Thanksgiving Lunch with Molly

On Wednesday the daycare had a Thanksgiving Lunch for the parents to come to. Molly was so excited that I came. This is her little friend Kate. She loves her friends!

This is the little boy she kissed the other day! Oh my!

There were so many kids around, it was hard to get pictures because they were all so close!

Thankfulness

Tonight we colored leaves and made a list of all the things that we are thankful for. Here is what we came up with:

Mommy

Daddy

Molly and Baby

Family

Friends

Our Health and our Family and Friends' Health

Our Pets

Our House

Our Jobs/Our Daycare

Shopping (Mommy)

Parks (Mommy)

Swings and Slides (Molly)

Brownies (Molly)

Sunshine (Mommy)

TV (Everyone!)

Cell Phones (Daddy)

Candy (Molly)

Leaves (Molly and Mommy)

Fresh Cut Grass (Daddy)

The Beach (Mommy)

Toys (Molly)

Juice (Daddy and Molly)

Pictures (Molly!)

Music (Mommy)

Happy Days (Molly)

Stopsigns (Molly, I swear!)

Dance (Mommy)

Pillows (Molly)

Chocolate Cookies (Daddy)

Ice Cream (Daddy)

Lights (Molly)

And my favorite:

Little Girl Giggles (Daddy)

It was really fun coming up with all the things we are thankful for silly and important. It was fun hearing what Molly was thankful for and teaching her what thankful means. We could go on and on, but I only printed 32 leaves ;) We have a lot to be thankful for and it is nice to take time to remember that.

Happy Thanksgiving Month to everyone!

A Visit From the Gambrel's!

We were so excited that the Gambrel's came to visit this weekend! It was so much fun!

Molly loves Gigi and Addi! They had so much fun together. They play so well together!

We spent Satuday afternoon at the zoo. It was chilly, but we still had a great time.

Cutie Pa-tootie!

Silly Girls!

There were several animals out. The penguins are always fun to see!

Molly wanted to bring one home!

My sweet family!

Our climbing boy! He is such a good climber!

The hippo's are my favorite exhibit and were a big hit with everyone else too!

They come up close and personal!

We were glad that was really strong glass!

Lookout Gigi! A snake!

Molly's favorite is always the elephants!

We had a great time with the Gambrel's and wish we lived closer together. The kids have so much fun together and so do the adults! It is really nice to have time together without having a ton to do. We love you guys and really appreciate you coming to see us! Love you!!!

John Mellencamp!!!

On Saturday night we went to the John Mellencamp concert! It was awesome! He rocks as always!

We had a really nice evening. We went to dinner at our favorite Greek place and then to the concert!

This was a 35 year perspective on his music, which means I have been listening to Mellencamp music my whole life.

He is such a cool guy. He puts on a great show. He sang a lot of new music, but he is fantastic no matter what he's singing!

Mom came in town to take care of Mollicans for us. They had a great night together. We had fun shopping on Saturday. Got a start on Christmas shopping!!!! Yippee! Thanks Mom! Thanks John, for a great show and many great songs!!!!

Happy Halloween!

Beautiful Belle! She accessorized all her jewelry herself!

She was so excited to wear her Belle dress!

Everyone was cracking up because she thought this was her carriage!

She did such a great job saying Trick or Treat!

She got sooo much candy, but the she really enjoyed the actually trick or treating. She kept saying "I want to go more!". She didn't ask to have any candy till we got home.

I thing Halloween is more fun as a parent!

She was excited to hand out some candy when we got home!

Earlier in the day we made cookies!

Molly didn't have any!

Yes, those are gingerbread men and heart. I will be checking the Halloween markdowns for a pumpkin cookie cutter!

We also carved pumpkins. She had fun drawing on the pumpkin!

Molly's drawings

Finished product! Daddy was disappointed because we couldn't find our pumpkin carving kit from last year, but I think its still cute!