Gobble, Gobble!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We've been enjoying the season & have so many blessings to be thankful for!

The kids are at great ages to enjoy projects together... so we've been busy being artsy! We made gingerbread houses - everything from scratch but don't think I didn't search every store looking for a peanut safe "kit!" They didn't have anything safe for Ian so I found a delicious recipe that not only makes 2 houses, but it makes a dozen chewy, delicious gingerbread men cookies too! I honestly thought this was going to be a disaster but the kids LOVED it... I had never made royal icing but it worked like a charm & dried quickly enough for little artists.
Audrey's house (above)

Ian's house (above)

We also recently did our annual "salt dough" ornaments. This project is one of my favorite - it goes quickly (we microwave ours) and the kids go from mixing dough & doing cutouts to painting/coloring within a short amount of time.

We even visited santa at the mall already. We're looking forward to more fun in December: Polar Express train ride, Festival of Lights at the Botanical Gardens, breakfast with Santa, family visiting, making cookies & candy and making a birthday cake for Jesus on Christmas morning.

Our Little BOY at 20 weeks!

We had never seen 3-D images like this for the other two kids.

It was so neat to have Ian & Audrey there to see the ultrasound... but we're hoping the baby looks less like a scowly old man in real life ;) Just kidding, he looked healthy & amazing! Ian has his photo framed - he's so proud.

Happy Halloween!

We kicked off our Halloween day by making slime! It was so fun (even for daddy & mommy)

Then, mommy got to join in the celebrations at Ian's preschool -

Everyone was dancing & Ian's said "Mommy you have to jump too!" (not so easy with my belly these days!)
We began trick-or-treating with the excitement of a firetruck showing up across the street!

Here's most of the neighborhood gang

Ian heard one of his friends was getting "Angry Birds" pumpkins so he requested one as well. Mommy did her best... Ian drew the face & ears on the left for us to carve (so cute!) & Audrey drew the "eye" on the one on the right... we filled in the rest :)

A successful night of trick-or-treating fun... lots of candy was collected by BOTH our kids this year. Audrey was really into the whole thing! We separated a giant pile that was not peanut safe & were able to donate it at our dental office. They gave the kids a dollar per pound & they send the candy to soldiers overseas. Ian used several dollars he had accummulated this month as well as some change from our change jar to buy an "Angry Birds" board game for he & Audrey. It was the perfect solution to the candy overload (and don't worry, we have plenty of peanut safe candy lingering in the house for the kids to indulge in!)