Kennedys

Holy cow! To all my warm weathered friends out there...I'm officially snow broken. Not really, I haven't even attempted to drive in the snow thanks to Russell who is our official chauffeur for the week until the snow melts. We had some light snow on Sunday and thought "oh how nice." Not having any idea that we would get almost a foot! I know that doesn't sound like a lot but trust me, it's enough to keep me inside my house unless there's an emergency. Maggie had a "snow day" on Monday so that was fun to keep her home and her and Lucas had a blast playing in the fresh powder.

This was only the beginning


blurry. woops. you can still see the grass....for now

It was so nice to go home to Arizona for Thanksgiving. Flying was interesting. 90mph winds + snow/rain did not make for a quick and easy trip there. Our flight was delayed 3 hours and I didn't want to leave the airport in case the weather got better....bad idea. The kids actually did pretty good since we tried to waste time eating lunch and walking around. Needless to say, by the time we got on the airplane we were ready to get to Arizona. The kids loved the plane ride but it wasn't over when we arrived. We had to take a shuttle to the rental car place and spend about an hour waiting there so by the time we got to Grandma Kennedys it was 10:30 at night and our trip started at 1:00 in the afternoon.....LONG day. Worth it. We had so much fun seeing old friends and family, playing at Grandma Kennedys and Grandma Buckmisters, going to lunch , getting family pictures, enjoying the beautiful warm weather, eating too much on Thanksgiving, shopping on black Friday, helping put up Christmas trees.....and everything else! I didn't take as many pictures as I intended to so here's what we got!



We each had a row so it made for a nice flight.

We're in Arizona and I couldn't be happier. I miss my old life here but we love our new one in Reno as well. There's nothing better than being around family to rejuvenate your soul! Pictures to come later.

Ahh, Halloween how do I love thee? Not very much actually. I do love the season and the month of October and putting up all my decorations but then when Halloween rolls around I'm ready for it to be over so we can start November! I love Thanksgiving. This year I went and helped out at Maggie's Halloween Party at school and I brought Lucas and Violet with me. They read a scary story, had a mummy station, a haunted maze, a treat station and a ooey gooey brains and eyeball station where they could dig around for prizes. It was so cute to see all the kids and the teachers dressed up. Lucas was able to join in on all the fun so he thought that was great!

Maggie's student teacher was Patrick from Spongebob, she had a box thing that went over her face, it was classic.


Magg's decided to be a witch for school and it was freezing that day, poor thing, I forgot to bring her jacket so she was so cold when they did their parade! I'm the worst mom!

I always knew that I should be spending more time doing fun stuff with my kids rather than cleaning or watching the latest recorded show from the DVR. Sometimes I feel like I get so easily frustrated with my kids for the smallest thing and I feel so bad when I'm a grumpy mom so this week I decided to try to find fun stuff the kids and I could do together or as a family and it makes a world of difference! I think happy days were had by all this week. We carved pumpkins, made calzones together (which were delicious thanks to my brother Aaron for the dough recipe), we went to the corn maze and Maggie wanted to help with just about anything I was doing, laundry and all!

I hadn't carved a pumpkin in years so this was a really fun thing to do with the kids