November 2020

We still have a while to go before we're caught up, so here's our last November!

Eden is so gangster.

Eden's facial expressions are the best!

We enrolled Joey in some swim lessons to prepare for baptism. He panics if his hair or face gets wet, so we hoped this would help. I guess we'll find out. What was cool about these swim lessons was that they were geared towards kids with disabilities and were taught by Occupational Therapists. Either way we had fun doing it.

Last post I mentioned our pumpkins won an award at the Trunk-or-Treat. Well, I found the picture:

The Ophthalmology program put together a half marathon for anyone to participate. Sam was the only one from our family (no surprise) that participated, but we were there when he got to the finish line. Poor Sam's knee was acting up so he took up the end. But boy did he persevere. 

Sam's parents came up for Thanksgiving and we had a blast. We started off going to Canyon Lake to stay in a "cottage" (really just a mobile home). We decided to have a night hike and found two creepy spiders. 

This one spun a web on the pier.

I found this one crawling on my shirt towards me.
Understandably I freaked out!

One of the big projects we wanted to do with our house was redoing our upstairs bathroom floors. They were cracking, outdated and ready to be replaced. Sam and his dad decided to get a head start while I stayed with his mom and had fun at Canyon Lake and at Buc-ee's. Buc-ee's has been on my Texas bucket list for a couple years so I couldn't pass it up when we were so close. It is like the Costco of gas stations. Just one of those places you have to experience to really understand.

Had to demo the old tile. Linoleum was underneath! 

Sam did some major demolition here!

Joey's toy he picked out at Target.

Eli chose Legos, no surprise there.

Grandma took the boys to the lake while Eden and I took naps.

The floors needed to be level to place the vinyl flooring we had.

The floors are in!

The kids loved the books Grandma brought and she read to them every night!

Celestine took me to Target (and other stores) to pick out the perfect decor for our bathrooms!

Our bathrooms look pretty amazing now, thanks to Sam's parents!

We celebrated Celestine's birthday while we were here.

Joey got into turkeys for Thanksgiving.

Notice Eli's Thanksgiving plate consists of only corn and a roll.
In fact I'm surprised even corn is on there!

Our pretty Eden.

More Grandma reading time!

I love that Eden is so friendly and loving to family she doesn't see that often.

Thanksgiving: steak, sweet potatoes, asparagus, corn, and some rolls.

Matching shirts!

Great Thanksgiving!

We finished it off with some yummy apple pie and pumpkin pie (not pictured).

Thanks to Sam's parents for their lovely visit, service, generosity, and love!!

Halloween 2020

Time to play catch up! I have quite a bit to blog so hopefully I can get it up to date soon.

So, Halloween. This year we might not have had the most exciting Halloween compared to other years, but we still had fun things to do. Beginning of October we meant to go to SeaWorld to do some Trick-or-Treating, but Eli ended up puking before we left. This was the weekend my parents came to visit so we decided to just take Joey. We didn't have his costume ready yet so he wore last year's costume.

Still a great costume. People really like it.

Sam decided to take the kids to a farm for some fall fun. They did both a hay ride and a tractor pull at Graff's family farm (I think I stayed back to clean the place without kids distracting me). So here are some cute pictures with little context!

Corn maze?

Hayride time!

Eden and her smile 💖

Our Octobers are still rather warm!

Tractor pull!

Happy girl!

Pumpkin carving time! The kids never seem to stick around the whole time. But we still had fun.

The process always starts icky!

Eden's choice: a kitty

Eli's choice: a dog

These pumpkins one us an award at the ward Trunk-or-Treat!

I'm glad they were able to do some sort of trick-or-treating, as we decided to forego it this year (2020, enough said).

There are at least 10 photos and none of them are looking at the camera at the same time.

Joey once again wanted to be something for Halloween I had to handcraft myself. He chose an iguana this year. I bought a green jacket and glued some felt. For the tail I got green fabric, shaped and stuffed a tail, and pinned it one. I think it was a success!

We decided to go to SeaWorld one last time while Sam had an interview on Halloween.  Here they are at the Sea Lion show:

Eli is getting tall enough to go on rides by himself!

On Halloween night we did indoor Trick-or-Treating. The kids were probably disappointed but better safe than sorry.

Eli: Rhino, Joey: Iguana, and Eden: Yoda (or Grogu)

 Moving on to the next Holiday!