November

We had a great November!

We had some family game nights

The kiddos are loving getting to hang out with their cousin

Casen had his first little presentation at school we were invited to for Thanksgiving.  He went up on stage and sang a song.  It was soo cute.  They were pilgrims and Indians and after the show they got to have a Thanksgiving feast.

He also got his first report card, 100 in everything!

After work one day Caleb brought me home a lovely bouquet of flowers and he also brought one home to Arya.  She loved it so much.  She told everyone about her flower from her dad.  He's the best!

Morgan and Tim hosted Thanksgiving this year and we had a great meal.  We also had some little helpers :)

 My stuffing helpers

I forgot to take any pictures of the day, but Morgan thankfully at least snapped one of the kiddos at their little table.

(Tim's mom took the pic so she's supposed to be in the empty chair :)

After lots of eating and Black Friday shopping we also set up our Christmas tree.  We got a new tree last year after Christmas and we were pretty excited to set it up.

 I love our home even more on the holidays

We also enjoyed our first time making some fudge as a family and i'm telling you if you like Snickers you should most definitely be making this fudge this year!  Our first time was a big success.

http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2012/12/snickers-fudge.html

Bring on December :) 

Veterans Day

I know I've this video before, but i'm so proud of my husband and all he's done.  This is a video from his deployment.  This time 4 years ago I was writing how thankful I was to get a picture from Caleb because I hadn't seen him in over two months.  It is crazy how far life has taken us, but i'm still so thankful he came home safe and for the insanely hard life he lived while he was there. 

Thinking of all the families still serving and more then thankful for all those who have served.

October

We had a great October!

We've enjoyed spending some one on one time with our little lady as Casen is hard at work at school.  He is doing awesome.  Learning lots of sight words, doing math, lots of writing, memorizing tons of poems.  He's such a smart kid and I can't believe how much he's grown up since starting school.

We visited our first pumpkin patch with a group of Caleb's work friends, forgot to take pictures, but the kids had so much fun picking out there own pumpkin and going through a hay maze.

We got to enjoy some time with visitors.  We love love having company!  We dove into everything fall with pumpkins, pictures with Charlie Brown, game nights in, and, of course, football. And the kids couldn't have had a better time with their cousins.  Thanks for making the trip guys!

The kids also happily celebrated Halloween this year.  Arya wanted to, no surprise, be a minion.  And we had trouble finding Casen's first choice of a dinosaur so he decided on Bumblebee this time around.  His school had a trunk or treat so the kids were able to get a good amount of candy and we did another candy hunt in the backyard since Caleb unfortunately had to head to work.

My mom also made the trip down south so we got to spend some time with her.  The kids love her so much so i'm so thankful she made the drive.  And she even watched the kiddos so Caleb and I got to squeeze in our first date night since my birthday.  She, of course, left the kids with a treat to wake up to the morning she left.  They are already counting down the days til she comes back.