Our First Gingerbread House

Today we made our very first gingerbread house. I will have to say that it was a lot of work but we enjoyed making it together.

It was hard to keep them from eating all the candy but somehow they managed to get a lot of candy on the house.

I think they made a great house! It is complete with the abominable snowman, Santa, and rudolf.

Santa Pics

Tonight we took the kids to see Santa. Ethan was being extremely shy and a little pouty.

This was my favorite picture of them.

This was Riley and Ethan telling Santa what they wanted for Christmas. Ethan was too shy to tell him what he wanted so Riley told Santa what he wanted.

When we were leaving the mall tonight, we saw Santa leaving to head back to the North Pole. The kids loved seeing him again and they really wanted to see his sleigh.

Leaves

On Saturday, Riley & Ethan played in our neighbor's leaves. All the kids enjoyed jumping and hiding in them. I love living in a neighborhood full of kids that are Riley & Ethan's age.

Happy Thanksgiving!

So much to be thankful for...

Riley's First Belt

On Saturday, Riley had his first belting test since he started taking Kung Fu in August. Thankfully, at this age there isn't a lot of pressure. So he just had a do a few moves he has been working on and then he got his belt. He was excited to get it and we were proud of him! He really enjoys taking Kung Fu (or Karate as he calls it)!

Family Pictures

Every year around the beginning of October I like to have family pictures taken of our family. Riley and Ethan's Birthday fall around this time and I like to have yearly pictures taken of them. This year I had a friend from Hendersonville take our pictures. I love how they turned out! She was able to capture their personalities. (Warning: there are a lot of pictures. She gave us 149 images and I loved about 140 of them. I was able to narrow it done to about 34 pictures.)