Thanksgiving at our house

We hosted Thanksgiving this year. It was my first time so that was exciting. Mom and Olivia arrived first and Logan and Tiffany and Ty came the next day. JP and Kathy both couldn't come because of work and we missed them! Everyone helped with dinner and Logan cleaned up every last dish on his own so it was pretty great! 

Mom brought a fun game to play with the kids. It's like I-Spy disney style. The kids loved it. 

I made pies the day before. I made a mixed berry lattice and a key lime pie and bought a pumpkin pie from Costco.

Lots of baby snuggles 

It was nice to have everyone help with dinner. We had turkey, potatoes and gravy, deviled eggs, stuffed mushrooms, vegis, home made rolls (Paul's favorite), fresh cranberry salad, and Mom made her excellent stuffing recipe. 

We did a little Black Friday shopping. Susie was a brave girl and decided she wanted to go with us. 

The next day we had lots of snow and put up all our Christmas decor. The Christmas season is officially here! We also had a Garbett family Christmas party. It was so fun to see all my cousins! 

Olivia was so dedicated while she was here, she made time to study. Nursing school doesn't come easy. She also always makes spending time with the kids a priority. They were sad to say goodbye. 

Timothy is 3 months old now and is a dream baby. He brings so much extra joy to the family! Did I mention he is sleeping through the night now? Hurray!!! He has rolled over a few times, hardly ever cries, and has 1 tooth already. 

Halloween Fun

We had a lot of fun in October celebrating Fall and Halloween!

First we had a little party with a family in our neighborhood. We had spooky treats (the candy corn looking pizza triangles didn't work out great). We played some fun games like pumpkin balancing and make a mummy in a minute and pin the nose on the witch and Halloween bingo. Then we watched It's a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!

We got to go to a little Halloween play group party. It was late enough that Braden was out of kindergarten so he got to go too. 

My favorite is the Syracuse city Pumpkin Walk! There are hundreds of pumpkins and it is so fun and festive. 

Clark loves being "spooky."

Paul and I went to a face-painting-required Halloween party. He was Harry and I was Hedwig. It was a lot of fun. They played a few fun games and if you lost you have to drink awful concoctions. I was hoping to avoid it but I lost one of the games. Luckily I drew mint syrup mixed with prune juice so it wasn't too bad (fish sauce was one of the others which would have been awful!)

 We raked and played in lots of leaves. The leaves on our trees are almost all gone now!

We carved pumpkins of course! This year was Susie's first time carving on her own. She did so well! Braden painted his. Clark absolutely loves pumpkins (it must be because they are orange). He wants to go outside and look at them on our porch 5 times a day. 

We went to the Voyage Academy school parade on Halloween morning. The kids are SO CUTE! 

That night we made pizza for dinner and went trick or treating! Timothy was a sweet pea and I was a farmer. The pea costume is special because it was the same one that my little sister wore when she was a baby. Susie was a monarch butterfly, Braden was Spiderman, and Clark was the hulk. It was a cold Halloween night so we only lasted about an hour and a half but we ran into lots of friends in the neighborhood which is always so fun and saw lots of great costumes. The kids were excited to go home and glory over all their candy loot. 

Timothy's Baby Blessing

Timothy was blessed in church on October 14th. It was a happy day to be with family and celebrate our new baby. I love listening to the blessings and was able to record in Timothy's journal some of the things Paul said in his blessing. We sang Hope of Israel in sacrament meeting and looking down at little Timothy I was happy I can teach him about the gospel of Jesus Christ.