our annual movie night

on thanksgiving eve, we had our annual movie night which meant...

kids in pjs

candy, popcorn, & pizza in no particular order

a movie...the croods

smiles

playing, toys everywhere, and someone in a princess dress

conversations

giggling, basketball???

a fun time

but we did miss the taylor's in texas

insta-what day is it

Hi.  I hope you all had a great week celebrating!  Here are my phone pics from the past week.

Meet June Elizabeth.  My new sweet niece...I can't wait to hold her!!!

Carter finally got his big boy bed!!!

I know what Carter wants for Christmas!

We went to Grace's thanksgiving party.

She happily shares her seat and her food with him, but not her Sprite!

When Carter saw all this candy for movie night, he said that the party has started!

We made sausage balls for Thanksgiving breakfast.  Yum!

Over the river and through the woods to Mimi's house we go...

We got our Christmas tree...

...and it's all decorated!

Tonight, we wrote letters to Santa.

I hope you have a fun week and it's not too cray-zee busy!!!

instaFriday

It's been a while since I shared my instagram pics on here...these are a few from the last couple of weeks.

Carter played restaurant...he insisted that every good restauranteur wears a pink stethoscope.

Kindergarten art really is the best, especially when it's a portrait of my favorite family. 

We had goofy glasses night at Awana!

Oh.no.

I found a lovely fall carpet.

I'd been craving cheesecake for a couple of months.  It was yummy!

We packed some shoeboxes at church for Operation Christmas Child.

I've been backing up my photos and I came across this...a little girl and her "B"

Why do they have to grow up so fast?

I'm really wanting to put my Christmas tree up this week, but can I?  Before Thanksgiving?  It feels wrong.

And...Grace has a second season of soccer behind her.

Halloween 2013

The Movie Star:  Grace's costume was an evolving one...at the beginning of the night she said that she was dressed as mommy (although, I'm pretty sure that I would never wear any of this. ever.), but by the end of the night she claimed she was a movie star.  That's her story and she is sticking to it.  I think all she really cared about was wearing make-up and earrings!!!

The Rock Star:  Carter wanted to be Oona, the purple Bubble Guppie.  I was definitely thrown by that one...how could I dress my boy in a purple mermaid costume???  I decided that he could be Oona, the purple rock star, and he "totally rocked!!!" 

We met up with Iron Man and more of our family to go trick or treating.

After the first house and the first of the candy, Carter decided to walk with his bag open...I guess it saved him some time at each door.

Saved time = more candy!!!

Grace was running to keep up with everyone.  She was not going to be left out!

We went back to Grandma and Grandpa's house to eat some candy (and a little bit of real food)

and do some other stuff too!