Thanksgiving & More

We've been pretty busy since we took those fall pictures in the park.  We had a first snow (3inches) a week or so before Thanksgiving, Landon's kids choir sang in church, we went to Illinois for Thanksgiving, and we've started getting ready for Christmas.  

Daddy, Landon and Keegan….Landon on my shoulders and Keegan on Landon's shoulders

Playing outside in the 1st snowfall and building our 1st snowman of the season

 just a little guy

 The Saturday before Thanksgiving was the Christmas Tree Lighting at Crocker Park, even Elmo was there!

All bundled up at the tree lighting…brrr it was pretty cold!

 

 Sunday before Thanksiving Landon sang during the service at church.  

Video of Landon singing

 Wednesday night before Thanksgiving some of Kelsey's high school friends came over with their kids.  Here they all are in one clustered picture.  Of course, Super Why is right in the middle!  There were 7 moms and 14 kids!

 All of the Moms

 Thanksgiving in Mattoon with Matt's cousins and Grandparents

Tyler, Tim & Kelsey ready to play some board games.  And also red-handed proof of who ate the Chex Mix!!

 At the Festival of Trees in Springfield

 Landon coloring a mug

 Keegan loved riding the train

 Thanksgiving in Lincoln.  Of course the kids were ready to head right on to Christmas!

They even performed lots of Christmas songs for everyone

 Happy Thanksgiving...Kelsey's family!

We have a very busy weekend coming up so stay tuned for more pictures.  Saturday morning we have a breakfast with Santa,  and that night we have Kelsey's staff Christmas party, and a neighborhood Christmas party.

Fall Pics

Here are some fall pictures that we took at a park a couple weeks ago.  Enjoy! :)

Halloween

A week before Halloween, Landon was snack leader at school.  We decided to go with a Halloween theme and make pumpkins (oranges with celery) and a graveyard snack (Dirt Cake with Peeps Ghost marshmallows and mini pumpkins).  They turned out really cute and Landon loved helping us make them!  :)

Landon putting the ghosts on the dirt cake.

The pumpkins

The graveyard

Both snacks together

The day that I went to the World Series game, Matt took the boys to the Fall PTA party.  Here they are at the party in their costumes!

Landon scraping out the seeds in the pumpkins.

 Showing us the seeds and all the insides.

The finished products….Super Why and Bert!

On Wednesday before Halloween, Landon had his Halloween party at school. We were allowed to go to the party at the end of his class. They had a parade for us to see the costumes, sang 5 songs and then went trick-or-treating in the classroom. 

Here is his whole class….all dressed up (even the teachers).

Landon with his good friend, Ely.

 Buzz and Super Why making silly faces :)

 A bag full of treats after trick-or-treating at school.

Since Landon was already in his Halloween costume on Wednesday, we put Keegan in his as well to get a couple good pictures outside.

Here are our sweet boys...

 So cute!

 We always try to make fun meals for the kids on all the holidays.  On Halloween morning, Matt made the boys ghost and pumpkin pancakes.

 Eating their yummy breakfast.

  Keegan in his Elmo Bones shirt on Halloween.

For dinner, we had cheeseburgers (with jack-o-lantern cheese), Halloween macaroni and cheese and some of Landon's leftover pumpkin oranges that he took for snack.  

Here are the cheeseburgers...

 Landon's Halloween dinner.

 Here is Super Why with his pumpkin, right before heading out to trick-or-treat.

 Super Why and his dog, Woofster!

 Trick-or-treating (in the rain)

 After walking through the rain and wind for awhile, Landon decided he would rather just come back and hand out candy.  

 So happy, even all wet!

 Keegan with his Bert pumpkin

We were allowed to dress up for Halloween this year at school.  Although the Cardinals lost the series the night before, I will ALWAYS be a Cardinals fan, not just a fair weather fan!  So…this was my costume!

Even though Keegan wasn't a handy man for Halloween, I still thought I would share this cute pic of him dressed up!!

Happy Halloween (a little late)!  We hope you all had a great day and had much better weather than us for trick-or-treating!!