We had a great Thanksgiving weekend! Jackson and Claire made "Turkey" cookies and read lots of Thanksgiving books that Aunt Courtney brought with her. We ate lunch at Aunt Connie and Uncle Kevin's new place and supper at Aunt Donna and Uncle Charlie's. And of course ate WAY too much! It was great to spend time with family and enjoy some time away.
We are so thankful and blessed!
This post is for Papa . . . here he and Jackson are posing in their pirate hats! Grammy and Papa spent Thursday night to Saturday night with us for shot gun season. Unfortunately, the guys did not get a deer, but we all had a fun time together.
And even made some Christmas cookies on Saturday. Jackson picked out "candy canes" and was very excited about rolling out the dough and cutting out the shapes. However, much less excited about the actual icing process, so it was a hurried job so that we could eat them!! And as you can see, Kinsey enjoyed one too! Some of our neighbors have started putting up Christmas lights outside, which Jackson LOVES!!! We plan to start decorating our house for Christmas this week!!!! 
We finally got to see the movie Fireproof on Tuesday night. It is a MUST see for every married couple. Whether you have been married for a year or for 50, you are happily married or are struggling, it is for everyone! And I am looking forward to getting my copy of "The Love Dare".
We had a great time celebrating with friends and family today. Kinsey LOVED eating the strawberry daisy cupcakes that we made. In fact, she ate one at the party and one at lunch! It was a special day, so we allowed it : ) She also REALLY liked the ice cream! We had friends and family celebrate with us this morning at the church with daisy cupcakes, ice cream, pink M&Ms, pink lemonade, and strawberry milk. And then continued with several coming to our house for lunch. It was a little crazy getting everything ready and put together, but it was a great day! 
I usually only write things about the kids, but thought I better post a picture of Dave's prize from Friday morning (11/7). He was very excited to finally get a deer with his bow . . . even though I find these pictures little disgusting, here it is!
And he has been spending a little time in the slammer : ) Not really, this was a picture from Harvest Fest (11/1) at our church. It was one of the fundraisers for the Rapha House (safe house for women being rescued from sex-trafficking). But it is still a funny picture!
I know I say it every month, but I just can't believe Kinsey is 1 already!!!! It just doesn't seem possible! I took this picture of her in our backyard for her birthday invitations. We have had a busy day, doctors, shots and other errands, so I'm afraid I won't have a chance to get another picture of her today. We go to her 1 year appointment tomorrow afternoon to get the official stats, but at the health department today they said she was 18 1/2 lbs., and 29 inches tall.
Gotta love this warm weather! We had a great time outside today playing in the leaves. Of course, Jackson refused to take off his Batman costume all day (and even slept in it last night), but oh well! Kinsey was a little scared of all the "crunchy" leaves, but she finally warmed up a little bit.
We had a fun Halloween! It was the first Halloween that Jackson really understood and got into it. He was all over telling everyone that he was "BATMAN!" and saying "trick or treat!" We had dinner with friends and then all went downtown trick or treating at all the merchants and to a carnival at the library.
Jackson is taking "big kid" swim lessons with his friend Nathan. He goes every Tuesday and Thursday for a month. It started last week. The first lesson Jackson didn't know what to do or what was expected of him so he was pretty much all over the place. But on Thursday he did much better, and tonight was a complete turn around. He stayed with his class and followed instructions much better and only got out of the pool once. At least he is having fun : )
