As promised, here are a few pictures of our last 3-4 weeks or so!

Meggan at her first Indiana Pacers game with Daddy!

The kids with Jason's grandma and grandpa at their 60th wedding anniversary open house!

Meggan and Crystal with their hair-dos (Crystal styled her hair on Sunday morning before we went to church)!


Meggan and Sara right after their Thanksgiving play last Wednesday morning! It was so cute, and they loved being a pilgrim woman and an Indian woman!


Jordan in front of the Christmas tree, trying to do the "rockstar" fingers that Meggan was showing him! Hey ... he's cute at least! :)

It's been a whirlwind month, and it probably won't get much better as the Christmas season is now upon us...

Hope all is well with everyone! Here's to a new month and some holiday cheer!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I know it's been QUITE a while since the last time I got around to posting to the blog ... all I can say is that it's been a L . O . N . G . last few weeks around here. Not something that can be blogged about, at least not yet, but that's my story for being absent from the blog and I'm sticking to it!

I will post again very soon (I PROMISE) with some recent pictures of the kids and happenings in our lives here, but for today it's just a quick post to say Happy Thanksgiving to all! I pray everyone had much to be thankful for and held their loved ones extra tight this year! You just can't ever know when it will all be ripped away in the blink of an eye.

And happy Black Friday too...

Fun in Jammies!

Last night when it was time for the kids to put on their PJs, I remembered all these great pajamas that a co-worker had given me that were Jordan's size. It was still warm outside when she gave them to us, and so I had forgotten about them until now! There are so many CUTE, WARM jammies that it will be fun for Jordan to feel like he got a bunch of new ones!!! Last night we pulled out the ones with a train on it... He was on Cloud 9!!!

What a little stinker ... and a ham!!!

(Oh, but then the flip side of that is trying to get him into his clothes and OUT of his choo-choo jammies this morning ... that was fun, let me tell ya!)

Meggan put on her Tinkerbell nightgown, as she's been hooked on the movie Return to Neverland this week! We checked it out from the library, and she really just loves that movie! I just love that you can keep it for 3 WEEKS before you have to return it!

She's such a sweetie!

Why do we even have toys? They spent a good 10-15 minutes just chasing each other around from room to room with this little string of my old steno machine paper... The only thing that stopped them at that point was that I made them go to bed!

It's been a pretty good week here! Jason wrapped up his softball leagues this week, so that will free up a couple nights as far as that. He was playing on Friday and Sunday evenings, so it seemed to take up quite a bit of time! They had a lot of fun in both leagues, and I'm sure he will really miss it from now until the spring when they are all planning on playing in a spring league together. I may join in on that one, but we'll just wait and see for sure.

Just looking forward to the weekend now, even though Jason has to work tomorrow morning. Hope all is well for everyone!

Trick or Treating!

I think we are trick or treated out at our house! Friday evening we went to my mom's work (she works at an assisted living center) and made the rounds to the residents' apartments, and the kids collected a lot of treats! Then yesterday we had a trunk or treat in our church parking lot, which is always fun (and easy) as the kids just get to walk around the parking lot from car to car and collect even more treats! Last night we made it through the entire upper half of our neighborhood, but just didn't think the kids would make it the rest of the way. We stopped at the cul-de-sac behind our house, where they were hosting a fall festival, complete with tickets and games and prizes galore! Meggan got pretty much an entire grocery bag full of little happy meal types of toys from there, and was then pretty much frozen solid and we headed home. Jordan only played one or two games there and won a couple cars, but then he was done for the night and went home with Daddy!

Friday night at Grandma's work!

Saturday afternoon in the church parking lot, along with Maggie and Faith (a/k/a Super Girl and Butterfly)!

All in all, it was a fun Halloween this year! Meggan was enjoying herself with all her friends and dressed up in her cowgirl outfit. Jordan was RUNNING around the whole neighborhood just trying to keep up with all the big kids in his Woody outfit from Toy Story. Lucas only made it halfway through the 'hood with us and then was too chilly and they went home, but he was having fun while it lasted in his Buzz Lightyear costume. Too cute!!!

The whole crew (minus Ellie as a dragon, who didn't want to be in the picture, and also minus Ashlynn as a pumpkin, who didn't get into the picture either) before heading out in the neighborhood: Lucas as Buzz Lightyear, Brady as Darth Vader, Will as Luke Skywalker, Camryn as a vampire (I think), Michael as something to do with Choppers, Katie as a gymnast, Meggan as a cowgirl, and Jordan as Woody). What a group!

Hope it's a great week for everyone!