Getting ready for Thanksgiving Dinner!

We got all the kids dressed up for Thanksgiving dinner at Levi's, and only two kids managed to stay out of the chocolate... can you guess who didn't? Well we had to go because we were late (as usual) so I just snapped a few shots of the girls and Jared in their somewhat clean clothes, Jared in his new outfit and Liz in her favorite sweater!

I Wanna Grow Up............ To Be A News Reporter!

I love the Christmas season, with all the wonderful smells and the happy tunes along with the best thing ever...shopping! I love going to the malls when the are crowded with holiday shoppers, the pushing and shoving and all the great things that go along with shopping in crowds! You think I am joking but I am serious! Well anyways, while we were taking a break from another favorite of mine ( window shopping) we let the girls play at the play place and they had this cute little news room set up so that the kids can watch themselves give the news just like on t.v. Our girls thought that this was the best part, pretending to be a grown up and watching themselves on t.v.

Jared's First Christmas Tree!

After Thanksgiving dinner at home with the kids we decided to go get our Christmas Tree up and start getting ready for the Christmas season. Too bad our 4ft pre-lit tree wasn't working, somehow the lights weren't lighting! So we packed up all the kids and went shopping for a new tree, but we didn't find one! A few days later, after spending 2 to 3 hrs online we found a place with the tree that we wanted, so again we packed up the kids and headed out in the snow for a tree, but by the time that we got there the tree that we wanted had been sold out! What were we going to do?
We called some friends and asked where they knew there we trees still left to purchase, and we found one, it wasn't the one I wanted... I wanted a 6ft PRE-LIT tree, but Jared got a regular 6ft tree. Imagine my disappointment when we found out that we had to assemble every single branch, then put lights on and finally decorations.
By the time that we managed to set up the branches the way we wanted it, it was way to late to keep the kids up and had to send them to bed! Jared stayed up to watch mom and dadput up the decoartions, he thought they were something to look at for sure! Once everything was on the tree and we made sure it looked half-way decent, we got a pic of Little Red next to his first ( very dificult to obtain) Christmas Tree... and he just loved it!

Silly Face!

We propped up Jared with his favorite blankie to watch his daddy at work on the fireplace while his sisters were running around in the livingroom. He just loves to see people in action and then we heard him making some noises and I thought that I would get his noises on the camcorder, but then he started making all these funny faces at me, its like he is smiling but making the sillyest face that he could at the same time!!! I just love this pic of him!

Play Mat

Jared is getting so big, he is babbling, eating cereal with applesauce and now he is finally getting the hang of his play mat. He started to grab things and put it in his mouth, we thought that he was teething, but we weren't sure! However, we got some great shots of him playing for a little while. Good job Jared!

Walking Around!
This was the first time that Jared started to use his walker, now he uses it almost everyday! Unfortunately, his little feet don't touch the floor, so he kinda just likes to hang around in it while we get things done! He also started holding things in his little hands like cars and rattles, but only for a moment! It's something that we are working on! Besides just hanging around in a walker he started babbling at us hoping to join in on any conversation, he has to make sure that he isn't forgotten, he has two sisters to compete against and boy do they talk alot!! Hopefully he will have a growth spurt soon so that he can move around on his own like the rest of us!

Happy Halloween!

We had the best Halloween so far in our lives. The weather was perfect. Just the right temp so no coats were needed and just the right amout of wind to make our costumes look more scarier! While the girls and Jared headed out the door at 6.30p to start their tick-or-treating, I got ready to hand out candy with my little "dead" pirate strapped to me in a baby carrier.It was a great night, there weren't that many tick-or-treaters in our neighbourhood so I didnt have much to do. But the few that did come complimented me on my witches' costume. My favorite part of the costume was the hat, it had these great feathers sticking out along with a few black ribbon roses and a black veil with spiders glued on. I think it cost like $15.00 but it was so worth it. If I didnt have that hat I would have looked Lame!!!

The girls were so excited to dress-up and this year they finally understood what Halloween was about, free candy! Elizabeth said Trick-or-treat at every door that she visited and Jamie just said "gimme candy". We are still working on her!

As for the loot, the majority was chocolate and then we went out to the grocery to get more chocolate at half price, so now we have enough chocolate for the rest of the year! That is if Jared doesn't eat it all in a few days!

Once we got home from trick-or-treating we had just a few minutes to get ready to head out to a Halloween party with some friends, so we got to wear our great costumes a little bit longer! It was a great party with some really amazing food. Lots of dancing and singing too! It truely was a great Halloween. We're thinking that next year we will have a Halloween block party for our little street and we can dress up the whole neighbourhood, but it is a work in progress! Hope you guys had a Happy Halloween!