Thanksgiving...

...or maybe a better title for this post would be, "That one time Nate ordered a 42lb turkey for us and we only had 6 people coming for dinner."

AGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Nate ordered it from a farm up north and they smoke

it for 10 days. It was huge and tasty!!

My grandma Naylor planned to spend Thanksgiving with

my mom and Kraig in Colorado so we had an early dinner

with her, my aunt, and cousins the week before.

November 13th, 2014

Cranberry taste test:

Costco's (on the right) won.

It was also Anna's birthday:

After dinner we went around the table and had everyone say a 

person, place, and thing they are thankful for. When it was Mabel's turn

she didn't hesitate:

1) Kelsey 2) Rita's Water Ice 3) My family

~Fall Festivities~

:::pumpkin patch:::

She told me to take a picture of her like this. I said, "Okay, John Travolta."

It was a picturesque fall night at the pumpkin patch!

She was done. And hungry.

:::getting spooky:::

Mabel LOVED helping me set up the Halloween decorations.

My two punkins.

Tipsy.

Aunt Kelsey got this cute onesie for Elliott.

I love seeing the leaves turn bright red on this big tree right by
our house. 

:::carving pumpkins:::

Mabel decided she wanted to paint hers with
a happy face.

Things got a little crazy with the paint....

The carving gang, plus Jocelyn and Emri
who stopped by to say hi!

That face! I just wanna kiss it all day.

Nate's alien was pretty impressive and Mike's won for most spooky.
Don't ask about my cat/bat that started out as a witch.
Ya win some ya lose some.

:::nana and grandpa kraig came to visit::: 

My mom and step-dad came out for a few days to spend
Halloween with us. It was such a short visit but we loved
every minute of it. 

:::mabel's halloween dance recital:::

:::church halloween party:::

TINKERBELL!!

She loved the shoes I made her.

Gettin SPICY!

Baby Owl

Mabel thought her friend Emri looked pretty spooky!

:::classic skating:::

My mom stayed with the sleeping kids while Nate and I had a date night
at Classic Skating for a friends birthday/costume party.
Skating in our costumes was pretty funny...as in we could barely
move and looked ridiculous! Good times!!

:::halloween night:::

Tinkerbell pretending to fly.

Elliott helped Great Grandma Naylor pass out candy.

Eating some of her loot!! She dug through the bowl
to find a single little Jolly Rancher that she was so excited
about.