Thanksgiving

We got some family pictures taken over Thanksgiving...

Is that true cousin love, or what? Ha ha. McKay looks so happy to be hugging Luke.

We had a great Thanksgiving with some of Kimball's family in Enterprise. We stayed over a couple nights so that McKay could wake up early and go with grandpa to "daddy's dairy." McKay likes to wake up early at their house. :) I have been really grateful lately to have a cute little boy, another boy on the way, and a big boy named Kimball who I get to be married to. Lots of boys around these parts.

I need to complain...

I hate, hate, HATE daylight savings time. We were up at 5am.

This is the most ridiculous facet of life when you have a little kid who has no comprehension that getting an extra hour of sleep is really cool. Why do we even do it??????????? I don't care that it's going to be light at 6 am now. I don't want it light then anyways. Now it just means that it's going to be dark every night when we eat dinner at 6 pm.

This is when living in Arizona would come in really handy. I plan for a week or two of a messed up sleep schedule for McKay. Great. Makes me excited.

:) Okay, all done complaining.

Oh the weather outside is frightful...

Aren't they cute?

That's right, folks, Christmas music has begun at our house this season! I feel totally okay in this decision now that Halloween has passed and it is getting chilly outside! Right now we are experiencing a great wind storm. I love storms this time of year. It just makes me want to snuggle up with a good book or a good little boy and read his favorite books which consist of "aminals" and "tractows."

Lately we have been spending the majority of our days reading books, coloring, talking about colors (McKay tells me what color EVERYTHING is. I must say it is a good review from my pre-school days.), playing play-do, and playing with tractors and trucks.

Funny story about the Halloween candy: the next morning after trick-or-treating, McKay woke up saying, "where'd candy go?" I told him that the candy went bye-bye and it was all gone. So for the past few days he keeps repeating to himself, "candy all gone, candy all gone." I feel so tricky....ha ha ha. I am enjoying this trickery because I know he won't fall for it next year. :)

Yesterday we went swimming and we were the only ones in the pool for an hour and a half (along with 6 lifeguards...I seriously don't know how this pool will stay in business). McKay had a blast. They didn't have the water spraying from the big climbing tower thing, which was nice. McKay was able to play up there without getting his face all sprayed (normally he doesn't like to go up there). So he spent a good half hour going from one steering wheel to the next and driving "McKay's truck" as he would call it. I just sat in the warm water and enjoyed watching his excitement at driving his truck.

That's all for now. I just had a few extra minutes and wanted to share. :)

Halloween

This year was a fun Halloween, complete with a Halloween recital for my students. My 5 students were good sports about dressing up and some of their little siblings did too.

McKay was our little monkey this year. The costume fit him well because he likes bananas, likes to climb all over and get into stuff and likes to say "eee eee, ooo ooo, eee eee"

Trick or treating was really fun. Kimball and I accompanied the little monkey. He caught on very quick that you have to say "twick o tweat" at every door and then "tank oo" when we leave. I must say, we were very enamored with him. McKay made it really fun because he was so excited--jumping all over and walking so excitedly from house to house. It was a great evening!

Happy Birthday

2 Years! I can't believe it!The highlight of the night was McKay's new car

His Bowler cousins. It was so cute how eager they were to help him open his presents. The party was way more fun with other kids around!

The football cake: I must say this was the easiest and cutest cake I have ever made

He enjoyed being sung to and when we put the cake close to him so he could blow out the candles, he kept saying, "hot, hot."

McKay's birthday today was more fun for me than him, I think. I just wanted to make it so special for him because birthdays are a big deal! We went to the park, went swimming, and even ate lunch at McDonald's so he could play in the germ-infested play place (that's what I call it). :) Oh how I love McKay!

Flight Museum

As part of the flight museum, we got to fly right by Mt. Rainier....
Just kidding, but it sure was fun to see lots of amazing airplanes at Seattle's flight museum, which is right near the headquarters of Boeing

McKay enjoyed getting inside one of the planes

Our trip to Seattle has been so fun! I love it here. Mom & Dad just moved back up here after 2 years in Missouri. They are glad to be back and I am enjoying the rain, the green, and the vacation!

Carving Punkins

We are at grandma & grandpa Thacker's house and we had so much fun carving our "punkin" as McKay calls it
McKay wasn't too fond of the pumpkin insides, but he really wanted to help cut