It's one of our favorite times of the year!! Cluttering up our house more than we can imagine. We cut our tree down earlier than usual this year. Dec. 2,2007. That's got to be a record but we didn't get to decorating until today. Joe helped start it out and had to get to work but Zak arrived from a friends sleep over just in time to finish up. Seems like we can never get all of the boys doing an activity with someone needing to be somewhere else. Joe missed out on the adventure of getting the tree this year. Dakota has been so excited this year about the whole Christmas thing not sure if he should believe in Santa or not. I think he believes with me so I will still cover Santa presents. Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving and December pics. Dakota wanted to celebrate his Eighth birthday on Thanksgiving this year. His birthday has been on the day but this year it wasn't until Tuesday. We really wanted to seperate the two parties this year but he was very persistant. Next year his birthday

will fall on Thanksgiving again. Maybe thats what he wished when he blew out the candles. He he!! Dwayne and Daniel couldn't mak eit this year so maybe they will come next year.

I thought you might enjoy some old pics of the family. My favorite picture of the boys together actually looking like they like each other!! A classic forever.

Well today is Halloween! We had many scary monsters visit us and here are some pics from our own monsters. We go to Rock Creek Farms every year and this year we had Dwayne and Hailey with us. Dwayne and Hailey were spending the weekend so Shane and Dwayne could go hunting. Grandma and Grandpa are always great help with the boys picking out their pumpkins. Nick also got to collect insects for his biology project coming up in February. After eating candied apples we met Daniel at Casa Bonita for dinner. We all had a great time!!

The next week Hailey and Dwayne spent the weekend

again so we decided to have a candy making day with Grandma! We made candied apples and chocolate Halloween suckers while drinking hot apple cider. We really had a great time with Hailey!!


Zak was a mummy and Dakota went as Chuckie! Nick was a gangster and Joe went as backwards man!