I don't know why I have such a hard time keeping up with this blog but I will try to do better. Here are some pictures from Halloween and the month of November.
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| Here the kids are ready to trick or treat on Halloween. Jack as our dragon. Garrett as our friendly neighborhood Spiderman. Nikki as our purple witch. |
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| The first week in November I had my grandparents come over and help me make some applesauce and apple pie filling. So yummy! |
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| I got Jack some new pjs. I had meant to save it for Christmas but I decided not to wait. He'll get his Buzz pjs for Christmas but for now I let him wear his Woody pjs. And he loves it! |
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| He's showing off his pjs by sticking out his tummy. |
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| Nikki had Fall/Holiday concert. Her class did one song with their recorders. The bleachers were jammed packed full of audience! |
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| Nikki is at the top with the white bow in her hair. It was such a fun show to watch. She has had a different music teacher every year I think this one is the best so far. And he says he's here to stay until he retires, about 9 years. |
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| Garrett and I spent an afternoon baking together. |
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| I even let him roll one loaf by himself. He enjoyed that a lot! |
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| And here's his finished loaf. We usually snack on a loaf right after baking them so we snacked on this one ;) He did a pretty good job! We made 4 loaves of wheat bread and 2 loaves of zucchini bread. |
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| That same day we baked bread we also went to the city Christmas tree lighting celebration for our FHE. We invited my parents to join us and it was a lot of fun! |
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| Jack had it easy, being pushed around in a stroller. |
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| And there it is! It stands about 40 ft tall AFTER cutting 20 feet off because it was too tall. It was donated by a resident who planted it about 42 years ago in their yard. |
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| It was so tall we could kneel underneath to get pictures. Some kids could walk underneath. |
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| Some of the businesses had some fun things going on. Inside the art store they had "Santa's reindeer", which were two llamas. They even let the kids pet them. |
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| Garrett was trying to pet him but couldn't get his fingers through the fence. |
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| There's the antlers! |
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| The old theater handed out hot chocolate and cookies! |
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| Then we walked down to the museum. |
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| All aboard!! |
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| On our way back to the car Nikki wanted another picture in front of the tree. By then most people were gone. Afterward we drove over to my dad's where we shared a loaf of the zucchini bread that Garrett and I baked earlier that day. And we watched the Shrek Christmas movie. It was a fun evening and great kick off to the Christmas season! |
