Thanksgiving Day Craft Gone Wild

We had a lot of fun making these turkey's.  Jared's aunt suggested the idea and amazingly, Michael's was the best!  We had some new good friends come over, the Vonfelt family.  They are perfect friends for my kids!  Aiden is 4 almost 5, Meredith is 9 and Sophia just turned 12.  

Michael with his favorite puzzle

He puts this puzzle together at least 5 times a day all by himself.  It is a 48 piece puzzle.  It is so cute, he just loves dinosaurs.  He now knows by site the names of 15 different dinosaurs and ready to learn more!

Here are some pictures from our Sunday afternoon walk.  

This is the girl's school playground.  

The girls were so sad to find the dead bird.  Maddie is a real animal lover lately.  Then Naomi insisted we had to bring it home.  We thought it was because she wanted to take care of it and thought she could heal it until she says, "I want to open it up and check out it's heart Dad."

Visit form the Kearns!!!

Naomi's long lost love came for a visit!  Our good friends, the Kearns, live in St. Louis so we were very excited to find out that our house is now only 4 hours away from their house!  We are surely going to be able to visit more often now!  Lea's hubby was out of town so she drove in for a little visit!  It was so fun.  And Lea, you looked so great!  She totally helped jump start my weight watcher goals for our Christmas vacation to the Virgin Gorda Island!  I thank you!!!  

Here are some pix of the kids.  I regret that I didn't get any pictures of Lea and I but next time!!

Pics of Maddie and Naomi

Michael as a Ghost

Michael as Buzz Light Year

Michael had two costumes this year because he really wanted to be a ghost and his preschool did not allow ghosts.  I got him this Buzz costume for school.  Do you think he was willing to wear it? Of course not, but sure enough the next day he wanted to be Buzz.  Luckily his school didn't mind him being "Casper" the friendly ghost!

We were looking at this beautiful butterfly that was just chilling there.