Taylor "sleeping."

Erin and Aunty J enjoying their mulled cider and good quiet adult conversation while the kids played downstairs in the garage.

Hi, Mama!

The winners of the turkey contest: Gramps and Grandma Bo! This picture does not do this turkey justice! Crazy details...

From left to right: Granny and boys shoe themed turkey, the Roles mardi gras turkey, the Webbs family turkey, and the Knightons q-tip turkey. Nice job, everyone!

Weston's Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast

Weston's class secretly dressed in the classroom next door so that they could surprise us with their costumes. While they were dressing, a girl in his class threw up! It would not be a class function without someone in his K-5 class barfing!

You try smiling with a mouth full of food!:o)

Check out that plate!

This is the best picture i could get of weston's crush, gabrielle, without her parents thinking i was creepy.

These are the pilgrim hat cookies that i slaved over the night before! They were a huge hit! Gotta love http://www.familyfun.com/!

Found it! The kids had to do a scavenger hunt to find their class number. Weston is number 18.

Wait a minute, is that actually a picture of me?!

Weston is putting together his hand and pinecone turkey.

Daddy is helping...

Ta-da!

ELECTION DAY!

So, let me preface this video by saying...ever since the Sarah Palin rally, the kids have been walking around the house chanting a little mantra about Obama and McCain. I'm not sure if they heard it at the rally or made it up themselves, but it is darn cute! So, here is a video of me trying to get Ella to cooperate. It took a couple tries...

Trick-or-Treat!!

oops, sorry these are all in backwards order! we got a late start this year trick-or-treating, so the kids only ended up going to the houses on our street (really only like 5 of them), granny and grandad's, nanny and grandaddy's, and brooke and jason's. then we went to this crazy lady's house who gave my kids 2 cans of chicken chili!! who would do something like that??...my mom--that's who!
weston and avery playing at brooke and jason's house.

weston, nanny, and ella at nanny's house.

we made sure to get some good use out of this spiderman costume from his birthday party! hey, times are tight!:o)

CHEEEEEESE!

our little ballerina!

Our Annual Family Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

So, our much anticipated annual trip to the pumpkin patch finally happened after 3 Sundays in a row of not being able to make it! It is tradition to take the kids' pictures in front of the big pumpkin to see how much they've grown over the year. The pumpkin was in a different spot this year and obviously not on level ground as you'll see in the next few pictures...We all had a great time together despite the fact that there were no pumpkins in the patch! We will definitely shoot for early October again next year:o)

Last year...

This year!

Last year...

This year!
They did actually grow a little! I swear Weston is taller than 3 1/2 feet though!

Ella loved being on the hayride and especially throwing the hay!

All of those puddles were just way too tempting! Weston and Ella were both a muddy mess when we left!

Where are all the pumpkins???

Weston did a good job comforting Ella after she tripped over a pumpkin vine.

So, this is what most of the barren patch looked like. If we saw any pumpkins at all, they were either rotten like these or still green!

Walking back to the hayride...

We were headed back to the hayride empty handed when we came across this bunch of pumpkins (obviously dropped off in the field). We chose one big fat pumpkin and decided to head back to play in the kids' area.

My little scarecrows!

Weston's Kindergarten Field Trip To Snead's Farm

On Thursday, Ella and I went to the pumpkin patch with Weston's class. We had fun even though it was the same pumpkin patch that we had already been to with MOPS. I made muffins for the kids' snack and they were a huge hit until one kid threw up all over himself in the middle of eating them! Yuck! Anyway, everyone enjoyed the rather lengthy hayride and the hay barn. Hopefully, tomorrow we will actually be able to go to Ashland Berry Farm for our annual family outing to the pumpkin patch!
Weston went looking for the fattest pumpkin he could find!

Found it!

All of the kids had to carry their pumpkins back to the bus in their backpacks! Weston was such a trooper and carried his pumpkin all the way to the car!

Weston is sitting with his good friends Carl and Clayton listening to a story about how pumpkins grow. It was not exactly the highlight of the day, but he did a good job listening.

He loved the rope swing and the hay barn! This swing was outside of the barn, but he like it better because he could go higher.

WE SAW SARAH PALIN!!

Yesterday (October 13th) we went to the Richmond International Raceway to see Sarah Palin! We went thinking that it would probably be held on the racetrack, but unfortunately, we were all out on the grass with only 2 small set of bleachers. The news said 20,000 people came to see Sarah Palin and I believe it! It was really exciting to be there and hear her speak (what little bit we could make out:o) and she even brought Hank Williams Jr. with her! He sang the National Anthem and his "Family Traditions" sung with a campaign type theme. It was a really fun day!
Avey, Donovan, Finley, Ella, and Weston all had a blast playing together during the rally.
Our view...
I took this picture of Sarah by sitting on Erin's shoulders...

YOU GO, GIRL!

Mom and Jack (who is home from Iraq for 3 weeks!)
Ella was so sleepy, but she hung in there until the ride home!

Bubby and Elle--which by the way, i am not allowed to call her anymore! Whenever i call her Elle, she corrects me and says, "No, not Elle--ELLA!"