Thanksgiving Weekend

Go Ducks!

We had a great Thanksgiving Weekend and it was even better by the time Saturday evening rolled around! What a game to watch! The Ducks took care of the Beavers this year didn't they?!!! There were so many amazing plays that we have watched the game twice more since Saturday...thanks to the good ol' DVR!

Christmas Decorations Are Up!

Most of you know that Christmas is my favorite time of year, and that we always decorate way too early. Well, we did it once again! The house is finished, inside and out, and I love it! It was so much fun for the girls to help too. Logann was the master tree decorator! She unwrapped almost all of the ornaments for me to hang on the tree. Peyton was the master tree un-decorator! She took the ornaments off as fast as we could put them on! Logann called the ornaments her "presents" as she was unwrapping them! Some of you might be wondering about the picture of the bags hanging up in our hallway. I got this idea out of "Wondertime" magazine. These bags are the same concept as the traditional paper chain link garland that is used to count down the days 'til Christmas. Well, these are the "25 bags of Christmas." Each bag is filled with a small gift for the kids. We are hoping that this will be a fun and exciting way for the girls to count the days until the big day! The last 5 bags will have pieces of a nativity scene that we bought for them, and Christmas Eve's gift is baby Jesus! We hope that this activity is both entertaining and educational! We'll let you know how it turns out!

Ashwin's Birthday!

As many of you know, the girls and I have been taking Ashwin with us to play park and library story time. He lives across the street from us. We watched him full time during the month of September. His grandparents are now here from India and they watch him while his parents work. Last Friday was his first birthday and they invited us over for a authentic Indian meal! It was amazing! They had a birthday cake for him and we sang to him as well. His parents and grandparents are so nice, we are lucky to have them as friends and neighbors!

A Very Busy Halloween!

The night started off by decorating the famous Safeway sugar cookies! (Brent's idea!)

Logann stacked on as many candies as possible!

Peyton did the same!

Cheese! The girls dressed up as Tom & Jerry!

Our first stop...Bob & Mary's...

The girls posing with "Aunt Mary & Aunt Cindy!"

Second stop..."Grandma Cindy & Papa Patten's"

Our Vancouver Grandparents (Nicola's parents)

Our third stop...Erin & Rob's...

While we were enjoying our "pit stop" at Erin & Rob's, the Hoffarth's showed up! This was totally unplanned...but it worked out great because we finished off trick-or-treating in our neighborhood with them!

Hallie & Logann were so excited to see each other, they couldn't even get a word in edge-wise! They were talking about all the scary stuff they had seen already that night!

Off we went trick-or-treating to Paul & Ginger's house...our neighbors.

Trick-or-Treating our other neighbors, the Pedigo's. Peyton decided she didn't like the caramel apple suckers!

"Home again, home again, jiggety jig" as Logann would say...we got home and heard a knock on the door! It was cousin Hannah and boyfriend Austin! Logann really enjoyed the other end of trick-or-treating...opening the door and handing out candy to the other kids!

Our last visitor, neighbor Riley, the scary wolf! We decided it was time to turn out the porch lights and head for the bath-tub! We hope you all had a great Halloween...we sure did!