Happy Thanksgiving

We had a lovely Thanksgiving - leading up to it, we made a thanksgiving tree and each night we each picked something we were thankful for and wrote/drew it on a leaf. It was fun to see what the kids would choose each night! This is the tree with which we ended up:

On actual t-day Tory abandoned us and golfed all morning while I hung out with the kids. To pass the time we made turkeys out of fruit:
Our main meal was a little different with our recent change in our diet (we eat a mostly plant-based diet, i.e. very little meat, dairy, eggs and processed foods). So we didn't have a turkey, it was a meal of sides which turned out great! It was a nice low-key Thanksgiving. Oh yeah, and we ended the day by going to the beach :)

Hair

Penelope is getting so much better at letting me fix her hair. But usually when I pick her up (from nursery or preschool) I am also handed a ribbon or bow. So lately I've been telling her if she leaves the bows in her hair the whole time, she'll get a treat when we get home. Its all baby steps, right?!

Halloween 2011 (mostly in pictures)

Our darling Snow White in front of our house:
Our esteemed train conductor (he loved saying "All Aboard!"):
And my favorite fishie.....ever!! He was just so cute especially when he make fish sounds by opening and closing his mouth:



Here comes Princess Snow White at her preschool parade:


Here's Parker and Penelope with their teacher Miss Sharon aka Tinkerbell:

And here she is again with Oliver because he likes to think Miss Sharon is his teacher too:

Eating some popcorn at the kids' preschool's carnival:


On the 'big' night we went trick-or-treating with some friends, here they all are although Parker wasn't too thrilled about the photo shoot before we left:





All in all, a great Halloween and Tory is taking the rest of the candy to work with him tomorrow so I can come down from my sugar high!