Juliet's family birthday party

Juliet turned 5 in December. It was a big birthday for her since she got to have a family party and and friends party this year. Here are a few pictures of her at her family party. She was very excited about Goldie the Goldfish, her pillow pet, and her other wonderful gifts.

Thanksgiving

I was so thankful this Thanksgiving to be able to travel to Rolla, MO and spend the holiday with my wonderful Grandma, my mom, and my brother Michael and his family. It was so fun to spend several days with everyone. The only disappointment was that I didn't get to have my husband there as he couldn't get time off work. Not to fear, he had a good time with his Dad and family on Thanksgiving and had the opportunity to get together with lots of friends who were in town over the holiday.

Here's Grandma Kathryn enjoying a play dough session with her grandchildren.

Cute Lucas who will have to deal with being a big brother come March.

Me, taking a nap. Apparently there was a competition to see how many stuffed animals could be placed on my face without waking me up.

We brought our dress up clothes and Noah spent a lot of time dressed as a cheetah.

Juliet loved playing with her cousins.

Kensie was a wiz in the kitchen. I stepped mostly into the role of prep chef.

Many football games were watched.

I enjoyed spending time with my wonderful grandma.

Baby Elmo made an appearance.

We continued our tradition of placing five candy corns by each plate to remember the lean times that the pilgrims experienced before the first Thanksgiving.

It was a wonderful trip! Thank you Mom for doing the driving.

Our Family

I thought this was a cute picture of our little family, which will soon become a little bigger as you can see from the size of my belly.

Fall at Highbanks

We loved this beautiful walk at Highbanks on an amazing sunny November day.

Raking Leaves

Here's a few pictures of the kids playing in the fall leaves. Juliet dove right into a pile and was having a blast.

I thought Cole would get into it to, but he sort of sat off to the side and just watched for a while. Finally, he came up to me where I was raking and said, "You're raking leaves. I'm jumping in the leaves."

Then he dove right in.

A Couple of Halloween Pictures

We didn't really go all out for Halloween this year. Juliet really wanted to be a witch again, so we went with that. When I named some suggestions to Cole he also wanted to go with his past M&M costume. So, we didn't do anything new this year. We went to the church party, went Trick or Treating in Grandpa Al's neighborhood, and of course had Halloween parties at school. So, they got to do the Halloween thing. No family costume or costumes for me and Charles this year. We'll get back in the swing of things next year.

Adorable Juliet videos

The first video is of Juliet making adorable fish faces.

The second video is of Juliet dancing in front of the Merry-Go-Round, can we say performer. I wonder where she got that?