Kevin and Sonja's Joys

Last Friday, Ashleigh asked at 7 a.m. if we could get the Christmas stuff out. That's all I needed to get them out. We brought in all the bins from the shed and had a blast putting up the decorations. I just love this season. We decided to take some pictures with all of the kids in their Santa hats.



Every year for Thanksgiving we have the opportunity to serve at Salvation Army to fill 600 boxes of food for those less fortunate. It was so fun to watch Kamren work so hard to help make the process go faster. We were able to fill all of them in 18 minutes. It's amazing at how fast it can be if we all work together.



It was also fun doing it with some friends this year.




We had our neighbor come with us and she loved it too!



Our neighbor's mom made this beautiful shawl and Ashleigh just loves it. She sure loves to get dressed up and she loves to add accessories to her outfits. She is growing up way too fast. Ashleigh is now singing the song "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth."



Happy 7 months old Andrew! He is cute as ever. He now has four teeth. He loves to scoot backwards and roll over. He is such a happy baby and boy does he love food.





Kamren just received his Wolf award. We are so proud of him. He really loves scouts.




Sweet Andrew can now say "ma ma"!

We are still waiting for our camera to get sent back to us from getting repaired so our neighbor was nice enough to take a few pictures of our family in their backyard. I love black and white pictures!

Ashleigh had so much fun picking out the pumpkins for the family this year at a nearby market.



Here's the before picture of the pumpkins.



We had so much fun for Family Night. We went to a historical place where they raised turkeys. The kids enjoyed playing on the tractors, exploring the pumpkin patches, and seeing some farm animals.



We enjoyed eating a fun turkey dinner together at this place. They also had a fun bakery.



I was in charge of Brynn's preschool Halloween Party. The kids were so amazing during the party. We had fun with tombstone musical chairs, treasure hunt to find a cat, trick or treating in the house, and having fun with pumpkins.



We had fun eating spiders, eyeballs, and monster hands for snack.



Kevin was so nice to make us whole wheat crepes for breakfast on Halloween and we made them into pumpkins. You can't go wrong with bananas and chocolate. The picture is dark because my flash just broke on my camera. Bummer!



Kamren decided to be Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars for Halloween. May the force be with you! It was nice that a neighbor let us borrow all the stuff. I was able to make the cape so he'd be a little warmer.



Ashleigh is our Hannah Montana! She even learned to sign her name in cursive. Another wonderful neighbor gave us this costume.



Brynn wanted to be a butterfly! She loves pink and purple.



Andrew didn't have a choice but we made him a cute duck and he was warm on a cold Halloween night.



All the kids had fun carving their pumpkins. Happy Halloween!