Happy Thanksgiving!

We celebrated Thanksgiving with my family this year. We enjoyed the Macy's Parade in the morning and the football games in the afternoon! Here are a few fun pictures from our day!

My Uncle Lew is usually called upon to carve the bird!!

And he made it look beautiful...I might add! :) With a little help from my Aunt Shelley! :)

This Maddie's new favorite thing to do at Nana's house.

"Seriously...you're just gonna let her do this to me..aren't you?" My sister and GG
After dinner my dad and the girls prepared a little song for the family!
Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving weekend!!!

Bird is the word....

In no way are we endorsing Family Guy as a quality tv show...
But this was the theme song for our Thanksgiving this year!!!
We just laugh hysterically every time we watch it...
As usual, turn off the music at the bottom first! :)
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Admit it...you're smiling...just a little right???
And I guarantee you'll be singing it the rest of the weekend! :)

The Day of Feasts...

Today was full of yummy food and fun!!

Both of the girls had their Thanksgiving Feasts at school.

Maddie's plate full of bite size treats.

She wanted to take sausage from Yoder's in Shipshewana...that's Phil's daughter!!!!

Her teacher encouraged all the kids to "get new taste buds" today!!!
Our little Pilgrim

Probably my favorite picture of the day...

Tyler Stiger "cheeeeese-in'" for me

We left Maddie's feast a little early, and headed straight to Emma's school...

for more yummy FOOD!!!!

Emma and her friend Madison

My little Indian..



Emma and her teacher, Mrs. Rus
As I reflect on what I'm thankful for this year, I think of all the common things...like family, friends, good health, and Phil's job!! But the one thing that God has really laid on my heart this year is our ability to send Emma to Heritage Christian!! I am so very thankful that she has the opportunity to attend this school. It is truly a gift and a blessing!!! She has grown so much over the past 3 months! She is a confident little girl that LOVES her teacher, her friends, and most importantly Jesus!!!

We'll do it ourselves....

Last year Phil bought me a Kitchen Aid mixer for Christmas!! I LOVE it! All year I've joked about wanting the meat grinder attachment!! Well... guess what showed up at my house this week? Yep!! We can now grind our own meat...let me rephrase that...Phil can now grind our own meat!!!

Last year, we also purchased a quarter of a cow w/ some friends! We had a few steaks left over, so we decided to make ground beef...WHY...Because NOW we can!!!! :)

This is picture describes how I felt about the whole situation!!! GROSS!!!!!
The Machine...
Phil and his new toy...
you can imagine the sounds effects he HAD to make during this process..

The finished product...which by the way, was EXCELLENT in last night's chili!! :)Phil will be getting a butcher's apron for Christmas...

by the end of the night he was a mess...but oh so proud of himself!!! :)

Going Digital....

Our wedding pics went digital today!!!!This is something I've been wanting to have for a long time! Now I can play around with our pictures...editing...scrapbooking etc!! I was so excited to get them on my computer, i just had to do something with them tonight!!! So...you get another "smilebox"....great site by the way(thanks Liz!!!) Enjoy a blast from the past!!!! :)

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Fall....

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Happy (Late...)Halloween :)

Well better late than never...right???

This year was an interesting one! Emma came down with the fever/coughing bug (that's been going around) on the Thursday before Halloween. Her fever lasted 6 whole days!!! So needless to say she wasn't able to participate in the Halloween festivities this year! :(

Although...she did get to hang out at Nana and Bampa's house...so she wasn't to heart broken!

We met up with the Sayers for a night of "organized" chaos at a local church on Friday night. We ended up leaving early! It was so crowded!! But the girls enjoyed the few games that they were able to play

Sweet little Anna in her pumpkin costume!! Maddie was suppose to dress like a soccer player, but had a costume malfunction the last minute!! :)
Grace won the cake walk!! Maddie was more than eager to help her choose the right treat!!!
After the madness....we hung out at Phil and Liz's house. Maddie enjoyed playing with JUST Grace tonight! They are bound to get into some mischief when Emma isn't around to "Mother Hen" them! :) But...they're SO cute together!!
Saturday night we headed back to the Sayers house for another round of candy! This time we walked around their neighborhood, which was cold...but fun!! :)

Grace was THE cutest Giraffe!!!! "Hurry up...take the pictures....we want CANDY!!!!"
Phil and Mads hittin' the streets!

We did finally talk Maddie into dressing like a soccer player! It was a much warmer costume...which was needed this year!!! Doesn't the headband just complete the outfit?? That was her favorite part! :)

Puttin' on the charm for the neighbors! :)

It didn't take long...and they were doing it on their own!!!

Hope everyone had a fun and healthy Halloween!! :)