It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

Again, it's been awhile since I've blogged, but that's not because I haven't thought about it...I simply haven't sat down to DO it! We had a very nice Thanksgiving, with wonderful company and fellowship. The Bartels fam, Haynes, & Regi came over to celebrate with us. It was a great time with lots of food, plenty of wine, and a little catching up. I didn't take any pics, but maybe Anne will send a few to me, if I ask her nicely.

On Friday, we took Pierce to the Children's Museum and he had a ball!! He was EVERYWHERE!! Thank goodness B was with us, as I don't know how I would've handled chasing him all by myself...and I do mean CHASING! Later that day, we went to the park. It was beautiful here all weekend. We even saw temps into the 60's!

We decided to decorate the front of the house for Christmas. I must admit, my plan came out just as I had envisioned and I love it! All 3 of us "helped" & if you look closely, you can Piercey standing on the ladder with B...too funny!!

Pierce picked out the candy canes and he loves to "check" them to make sure they're in the ground, as he walks past them. We haven't done any decorating inside, but all in due time. My growing belly only allows for so much activity, ya know?

Pierce continues to grow and bring us much joy! I can't believe how big/grown up he looks in this pictures! Where did my baby boy go??!!

Enjoy the pics and we pray this finds you well. We have so much to be thankful for....

Carving Pumpkins & Trick Or Treat

Happy Halloween! We decided to only carve 2 pumpkins this year and thought Pierce would LOVE it. Oh, how wrong we were! He was PETRIFIED of the inside of the pumpkin (Please note the look on his face in these pics). He wouldn't even stick his hand inside to see what it was all about. Eventually, he just started to cry, so we let him down. B finished "Pierce's" pumpkin, I worked on my own, & Pierce watched his favorite TV show...Wheel Of Fortune!

The base library has story time on Friday mornings & this week the kids wore their costumes. Pierce thought it was pretty cool, but was probably more excited to see his buddy, Tyler and check out HIS costume!

For trick or treat, we went over to the Bartels. We had good food and great fellowship (thanks for hosting, Brian & Anne!). We took Pierce out to get some candy...and he really wasn't impressed. In fact, I think he hated the whole idea. He was afraid of the decorations at the houses and would literally, whine when he got up to the door. He made it to 4 houses and then we were done. I tried to dress up as Lois Lane, but I think I fell a little short. I forgot that you have to "do" your hair BEFORE you spray the black hair color...guess I'm a little out of practice. Anyway, that's who I was "supposed" to be in these pics!

Once the little guys got back to the house, they had a ball playing in Tyler's Tonka truck, pushing each other (please note Tyler's death grip on his Butterfinger) around, giving each other hugs, and checking out the trick or treaters that came to the door. Good fun!!

And, finally, I just couldn't resist posting these awesome jack-o-lanterns! I wanted to "trip" over the Yankees pumpkin and have it roll away, but I decided maybe that wasn't very good sportsmanship! ;) Go PHILS!