So Much to Be Thankful For

My parents are flying out to spend Thanksgiving with us. We are super excited, but in order to get low airfare they are flying in on Thanksgiving day. This means I will be preparing all of the Thanksgiving feast...it should be interesting! I should be doing prep work now...but instead I'm blogging...what is wrong with this picture :) Happy Thanksgiving!

Girl Time

The maid of honor from our wedding, Lynn Dawkins, is getting married in March. She stopped by a few weeks ago so we could go try on some bridesmaid dresses. We had some fun girl time...just the three of us :)

Lily Kate LOVES Lynn.

While Lynn was here she decided that George and Elmo needed to go for a walk...using Reese's harness and leash. It is amazing what she comes up with :)

Leaf it to Beaver

Fall is such a wonderful season...I love drinking hot chocolate, bundling up to keep warm and all the beautiful colors of the changing leaves. The one downfall (now that we have a yard) is the falling leaves...we raked 8 bags yesterday and after the winds and rain this morning you can't even tell we did anything. While we love the shade that our trees give us; the falling leaves never seem to stop!
It's hard to get motivated when you look up and there are more leaves on the trees than there are on the ground! Does anyone else feel this way??

After all our travelling last month, November has started off quietly busy. I wrote in a previous post that my favorite time of day is when Stephen gets home from work. Lily Kate also loves this time especially when her daddy will pull up pictures of all the family on the computer.

Lily Kate and her daddy play with legos. She built the tower...Daddy balanced the balloon on top

Glamorous in Mommy's glasses

She is also just getting into Playdoh! Oh the fun. She sat and played for 30 minutes today!

What Not to Wear- Halloween Edition

All week Lily Kate has heard us talking about costumes for Halloween. This morning she decided to make her own.
Before: Sporting her pjs, a leg warmer, giraffe shorts and a sun hat.

She had to dress up Ernie and Tinkerbell too!

After: The cutest Tinkerbell!

Happy Halloween

Friday night we went to the Bobcats game. It was an exciting game-they won in double overtime. Lily Kate pointed out the mascot, Rufus, whenever she saw him- on the court, on her t-shirt, in the team store...
LIly Kate meeting Carly Grace at the Fall Festival. The girls were adorable checking each other out :) After the festival we went trick-or-treating to a few houses.

Lily Kate checking out her candy stash.

Priceless!

Her favorite part of the entire day was handing out candy with Pa. She loved to see the kids in their costumes.