Getting ready for Christmas

We LOVE decorating for Christmas, both inside and outside. The kids were actually very helpful this year, putting ornaments on the tree and helping Vic with the lights outside. Here are some pictures!

After decorating the tree

Helping Daddy outside!

Playing in the nativity scene

The lights are finished!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful week of time together over Thanksgiving, Vic took the whole week off and the kids did not have preschool. We spent time with friends, decorating for Christmas and seeing our families. Here are a couple pictures from Luke's Thanksgiving feast at school and of the Thanksgiving crafts we made at home.

Happy Halloween

We had a really fun Halloween yesterday. The kids and I enjoyed a day of Halloween treats, craft projects and of course trick-or-treating! One of our crafts, halloween puppets! We also made a bat mobile and pumpkin lanterns!

We had a halloween picnic in the backyard with pumpkin shaped grilled cheese, followed by a dessert of making haunted houses....well, that didn't work out so well, the kids just ended up eating the frosting and marshmallows

This was Luke's first year to carve a pumpkin, he drew the shape all by himself and helped Vic carve it out

Belle and Optimus Prime ready for trick-or-treating!

Zoo Boo!

We went to Zoo Boo this past Friday at the Houston Zoo, we enjoyed the Halloween activities and the cold weather! The kids played games, painted pumpkins and enjoyed looking for all the candy stations!

Painting pumpkins

This was honestly the best picture I could get of the kids together, Abby was so done with it...

Luke showing off his tattoo!

Playing games

October Activities

October was filled with so many fun activities - here are some pictures from the last couple weeks. This was the Mother Goose party at Luke's preschool, it was so cute to see Luke and his classmates all dressed up!

Playing a game...

We had a pumpkin fest at our church, the kids dressed up, played games and jumped on inflatables. It was hot, but a fun time!

Dewberry Farm!

Today was one of my favorite days of the year, our annual fieldtrip with MOPS to Dewberry Farms! It was hot, but the kids had a blast and Vic was able to take the day off and come since he was traveling over the weekend. The kids loved everything, they love being able to run around outside and do anything involving swinging, climbing, seeing animals, etc., so this is the perfect place for them!

Fun with friends :-)

Picking out pumpkins in the pumpkin patch!

Swinging in the hay


Even Vic likes to swing!!

Abby's favorites are always the animals....

...with large slides being a close second!

Luke even tried the zipline!

Museum Fun

Last week, we spent time with Vic's parents while he was on the other side of the planet, and went to the children's museum with Nana. We had lot of fun!! Nana was such a good sport, she tried everything with the kids :-)

Luke's first time in the big climbing structure!