A Thanksgiving Roll

What's the first thing you think about doing right after a big Thanksgiving dinner? Unbuckling your belt? Watching some football? Taking a nap?...How about rolling down a hill? On a full tummy it does not sound pleasant to me, but that's exactly what these guys did. And at least two of them had seconds on turkey. (Thanks much to Gretchen and Robert for hosting. That was quite possibly the best turkey I've ever had. Yum!)

 

My Crazy Boys

Last night my boys became Chris Bosh - Miami Heat, Kareem Abdul-Jabar -Lakers, Sensei Wu - ninjago and Iron Man.

 

 A little bball. Super Hero vs. NBA players.

 

Had a blast at Lewis' classroom party. My little man is pretty darn awesome!

 

The boys and friends ready to hit the streets. Lewis was pooped out after 45 minutes. It is hard work for a 5-yr-old to keep up with a bunch of 10 and 11 year olds.  We had a ton of trick-or-treaters visit and ran out of candy around 7:30. Four jumbo bags of kit-kats, a bag of dum-dums and 1/2 a bag of tootsie rolls wasn't quite enough.

Pumpkin Guts and Power Tools

 Carving pumpkins has got to be the most unpleasant holiday tradition ever invented. Eww. I'm a mom of three boys and I can handle gross stuff, but I hate those stringy pumpkin guts!! Carter's pumpkin was rock hard and he needed a little help from daddy's dewalt jigsaw. (wish I'd have gotten a photo of that) Thank goodness for a handy hubby!

 Owen did a large portion of his pumpkin free-hand, and he stayed focused for over an hour carving away.

 The finished products.

We had to get a picture with Mara before she leaves us to get married. Patrick's a nice guy, but come on, what could be better than living with us? :)

Friends

 Sometimes it's fun to be creative together.

Sometimes it's nice to just sit and play video games. :)

The Sound of Music

Someone has been paying attention in music class. I love listening to my Lewis sing himself to sleep every night.

Sleepyhead

Belated Birthday Party

 Unfortunately this is blurry, but it's a super-cool cake that Mara found online for me to make. He blew out all the candles with one blow, which I think means he doesn't have any girlfriends. Whew! I'm not ready for that phase of parenthood anyway.

 The boys getting ready to watch The Avengers. Carter has a pretty great group of friends!

 Pizza

 Giant Jenga