First Lost Tooth

On November 30th (at 5 1/2) Emma lost her first tooth.  She is getting so old!!

Picking Out Our Christmas Tree

On the Saturday after Thanksgiving my whole extended family headed up with us to Green Bluff to pick out our family tree.  Yep....12 people to pick one tree.....

 We walked around for a while and then found the perfect tree......

We blessed it with a family pictures....

Then the kids "helped" John cut it down....

A few days later we started the decorating.....

And the finished product.  All ready for the month of December.

Thanksgiving

We were able to host Thanksgiving this year and my whole family was together for the first time in over a year.  We had so much fun......

The girls got aprons to help with all the yummy food preparation (I tried to make one for Johnny but he insisted he didn't want one though he is probably the kid that likes to help in the kitchen the most)

The big girls helped stuff the turkey.....

We had a huge yummy Thanksgiving dinner with two turkeys (one roasted and one grilled) and every side you could think of....

And played lots of games..... It was so fun to have the whole family at our house.  We love this part of living closer to family....

A Sweet Reunion

At the end of October my sister and her family that currently live in Tanzania came to the West Coast to visit friends and family for three months.  We hadn't seen each other for over a year so we had spent the last few months so excited to see each other again.  Our first weekend together was a wonderful time of catching up and the kids LOVED playing together and reuniting as cousins......

A trip to Costco was in order....

And a slumber party...