Breakfast

Dad, Susan, Kelsey and Ben came for breakfast.

Ben and  Kelsey were married this past summer.  It was so nice to meet her and share a meal together.

We got to take a 4 generation picture.

November birthday

We also celebrated lots of birthdays.

First we celebrated my birthday.  Emma and Joey each wanted to make me a cake.  They did and both cakes were delicious!

Joseph turned 11 on Thanksgiving day. 

We celebrated on Friday. 

Friday was his day.

Emma's birthday was on Tuesday, but we celebrated on Saturday so everyone could be here and help her celebrate.

 Happy Birthday everybody!!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was great!

Bradley was ready for dinner.....

So was Calvin,

..and Madison, Joey,Emma, Susan and Cassie.

Here is some of our Thanksgiving dinner and our thanksgiving tree.

Dinner

We talked about what movies had influenced us or left the biggest impression on us.

Here are some of the movies, can you guess who said which one?

Mircle

Zombieland

Nacho libre

Toy story

Home Alone

Blind side

Rocky

Inception

Amazing Grace

We also talked about what teachers had the biggest influence on us.

It was great being with everyone....

 There was only a little tension.

Let it Snow

The Monday before Thanksgiving Seattle was hit with a snow storm. 

The High School was dismissed 1 hour early so that the buses could make it back to get the Elementary School kids on time.

Sarah flew in Monday night around 7pm and what usually takes us an hour round trip, took us three hours because of all the snow and ice.

They cancelled scouts...

..and they cancelled school on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Madison arrived on Tuesday in time to play with Joey in the snow.

They had fun.

Madison got a little cold but Joey stayed out most the day.  Thomas and his friends were out sledding.
Great way to start a holiday.

Webelos

Joey became a webelos last month

They also played a fun doughnut game

Congratulations Joey!!

New Pictures

Matt and Susan had new family pictures taken

I love them

I hope I will get some for Christmas

I found these on Susan's facebook page

Susan credits Jon and Lynette.  If they are the photographers they did a great job.  Of course, they had a beautiful family to work with.

Halloween the final word

Here is how the grand kids celebrated Halloween

Madison was a bat and Calvin was a lobster.

Bradley was a pumpkin

Matt and Susan were pumpkins too.

Here he is awake.

October wrap up

We had a great Halloween.
It started for Joey with a  Halloween party at school.  This year he was a skeleton.

We carved pumpkins

I guess I should have been more focused on Emma and her knife rather than taking the picture.

Saturday we attended trunk or treat than Sunday we went trick or treating. 

For dinner we made beef stew and cooked it in a pumpkin.

I forgot to take a picture of it until dinner was about over.   Happy Halloween.

Happy Birthday Madison!!

Madison is 3!!

We got to talk to  her on the phone last night.  She said she had a great birthday.  She had a party with all her friends.  She got to go to a beauty appointment and they gave her pink hair.  She said she had cake for dinner.  Madison got a Dora play set and a Barbie jeep that is Madison size.

Happy Birthday Madison!!

Here's Bradley...

This is Bradley with his parents right after he was born.

He is so adorable!

I hope he will be a good sleeper for his mom and dad.

Hello Bradley.

Halloween

Conference weekend we did our traditional haunted houses.

These are some of the things we used.

This year we made the trees out of candy melts.

For the ghosts we separated nutter butter cookies and dipped them in white candy melt and added mini chocolate chips for their faces.

Here is  Joey's completed house.  He has a whole story behind his design.

As you can see there is one pumpkin with a face who left a trail in the "dirt".   Those are footprints you see going from the grave to the front door of the house.

This one is the one that Thomas did.

The lower one is Emma's.  She went for an abandoned look.

Happy Halloween!