Thanksgiving Weekend - Saturday Dinner

Saturday we had dinner at my parents house with my sister's family. Chris made the stuffing and cooked the turkey at their house and we all just hung around watching football and talking.

My nieces arrived about 3:00 and the boys and girls played until my sister, brother-in-law and nephew arrived for food at 5:00. My sister made the bread. It is sooo goooood.

Here's a picture of my parents after dinner.

Thanksgiving Weekend

We had Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday at Uncle Kevin's and Aunt Kelli's this year. We made the rolls, fruit salad and fudge, Kelli's son Ryan made the green bean casserole and Kelli made the rest. It was great food.

We arrived early enough to watch the Seahawks vs. Cowboys game and have the kids play, play, play. We had dinner then stayed after to watch a movie. We watched Ironman, and it was great. It even kept all 4 kids interested, even Kimber who is 2 but then again, if her Kyle is sitting next to her, she is happy.

I paused the movie to take this picture. Can you see how happy Kimber is to sit next to Kyle? And how unhappy the boys are that I stopped the show.Here are the adults relaxing after eating all that food.

Tagged....

I was tagged by Kelli at...All-K-names.........:

8 Shows I Watch: (not in any favorite order)
1. CSI New York
2. The Big Bang Theory
3. Greys Anatomy
4. CSI Miami
5. Dancing with the Stars
6. How I Met Your Mother
7. Two and a Half Men
8. NCIS

8 Things that Happened Yesterday:
1. Took a shower
2. Worked
3. Ate breakfast, lunch and dinner
4. Went to Kyle's parent/teacher conference
5. Played on Facebook
6. Watched NCIS
7. Took Kevin to school
8. Made my shopping list

8 Places I Like to Eat: (not in any favorite order)
1. Fin n Bone
2. Jack's Bar & Grill
3. Torero's
4. Romio's
5. Ipanema Brazilian Grill
6. The Cheesecake Factory
7. Red Robin
8. Zeke's Pizza

8 Things I Look Forward to: (not in any favorite order)
1. Thanksgiving
2. Christmas
3. The day after thanksgiving (shopping)
4. A clean house
5. Vacation in the sun
6. Going on a cruise (someday)
7. Going on vacation with my husband
8. Buying a house

8 Things on my Wish List: (not in any favorite order)
1. Healthy family
2. New car
3. Clean house
4. Clean car
5. Loose weight
6. House
7. Couch
8. Promotion at work

I tag:
1. Carrie B
2. Tiresa D

Have fun

Happy Birthday Paul

Today is my "little" brother, Paul's birthday. I am very proud of him. He is the associate pastor at his church in Wasilla, Alaska. He is married to a very wonderful woman and has five, yes five, great kids. Each of them with their unique personalities and a lot of fun.

Here is Paul at 4 years old. It was taken in 1978. Wasn't he cute.
Paul and my nephew Issac flew down from Alaska for my parent's 60th birthday party in 2006.

Here is Paul and I with Anchorage in the background from our family's last visit in June 2008.
I started this saying it was my little brother's birthday. He is only little by age, as you can see that he is much taller than me and has been since he was 16.

Happy birthday, bro. Hope it is a great one. Love ya!!

Kevin's Last Soccer Game 2008

Saturday was Kevin's last game and soccer party. Kevin had a fun time this season and the boys on the team were a blast to play with.

Kevin with his trophy.

Kevin and his goofy look for daddy.

Kevin scoring the last goal of the game, of the season.

GGGOOOAAALLLL

Rain

This morning when Kevin and I were leaving to take him to school, I commented it was raining.

He said, "no it's not."

I said, "yes, it is, I can feel it."

He said, "it's sprinkling mom, not raining."

Only from a 7 year old's mind.

Then we talked about how only in the northwest, it can rain, pour, shower, sprinkle and downpour and only in the northwest do you know the difference.

Halloween

Tonight we went to a Halloween party of sorts. We started out at one home with a group of friends and all the kids loaded up in the back of a tractor and we went from neighborhood to neighborhood trick or treating to end up at another home that had dinner. Yea! We had all dropped of our food earlier so when we got there at 7:00 we had hot chili, spaghetti, corn bread, chips, etc. Then it was off again to trick and treat some more. The boys came home with 2 huge bags of candy.

Here is Kevin and Kyle at grandma & grandpa's house. Kyle changed clothes into this other costume as it was cold tonight and he knew he would freeze in this one. But isn't he a cute geek?
One of the moms had wigs for us other moms to wear. Don't we look like we are having fun.

Here is a picture of most of the kids before getting on the trailer. Kyle is now a 7-Eleven clerk.

Pumpkin Patch

I'm a little behind on the blogging. We went to the pumpkin patch last Sunday. We went on the hay ride tractor and walked on the pumpkins. Oh yeah, we also had some roasted corn, yum yum goooood.

Kyle and Kevin as pumpkins.
"mom, we're done with the thing...."

My guys.... waiting for everyone to load up.

Our family picture. We had a passerby take the picture. They did not fully focus but this is the best of the four she took.

Kyle's Birthday Dessert

Today we went to Baba's house for Kyle's birthday dessert with the family. We had 25 people there from Kyle's great grandma to great uncles and aunts, cousins, cousins kids. Its a blast when we all get together.

Kyle and Kevin on Baba's couch after cake. Kyle has his rubik's cube. He bought it with money from his nana and papa for his birthday.
Kyle with his cake and cupcakes aunt Kelli made. The cupcakes had parts of a Hershey's bar in them, so good.

This is aunt Kelli and Kimber. Aunt Kelli makes cupcakes, all sorts of cupcakes and they are all good. Kimber is the "little sister" that Kyle and Kevin love to play with.

Kyle's Birthday Dinner

Kyle loves Chang's Mongolian Grill so for his birthday he got to pick the restaurant and Chang's is where we went. Here is Kyle with his food. I made him wait until I took the picture before he could dig in.Here is Kevin with his plate. You will notice it is mainly pineapple. Chang's is not Kevin's favorite. But he was a good sport since there is ice cream at the end.

Kyle with his mom, enough pictures look. He got a big bowl of ice cream.

Kevin Scout Meeting

Monday night at Kevin's scout meeting the boys dressed up their den leaders as a book character. Kyle volunteered to get dressed up and of course the den leader was all for that. Kevin's den could not agree on one character so they brought different items and made Kyle "Harry Potter spell gone wrong." Aren't the two of them so cute.

Happy Birthday Kyle

Yesterday was Kyle's 12th birthday. Chris still remembers when I called him at work and asked him when he was going to take lunch so he could come home and take me to the hospital. He said he would come home right away and not wait for lunch. Kyle was born 7 hours later. We stayed at the hospital for two days and then came home. Two days later we went back to the hospital because Kyle had jaundice and stayed for another two days.

Here is Kyle's official hospital photo and below is his school picture for this year. He's growing up to be a very handsome young man.

Love ya dude.

Birthday Fun

Here are the boys watching Iron Man. I made them stop watching and smile at me, they did grin but immediately went back to the movie.

I filled the table with snacks and soda for them to have for the rest of the night. The plan is, from what I understand, is to stay up all night and watch another movie and play the Wii and XBox. I will let you know how well they did in another post.

Homecoming Game - Theirs (and Kyle's birthday party)

Tonight we went to "their" homecoming game. This was Chris' high school and the school the boys and their buddies will go to when they get to high school. It was not cold but it was rainy. This was also part of Kyle's birthday party. We started at grandma & grandpa's and had pizza. Then we all climbed into the cars and went to the football game. Here are the boys at the beginning of the game. The stands progressively became more crowded as the game started but emptied out quickly after the half time homecoming festivities.

The boys had a fun time. We left in the 4th quarter with 5 minutes left and the other team had just scored and was now ahead. When I posted this, we did not have the final score yet. Although I do have to admit, it would not hurt my feelings none if they lost their homecoming game too.

Homecoming Game - Mine

Okay, I'm a little late with some of my posts. Last Friday was my high school's homecoming game and I made my family go. Yes, actually I had to beg and plead to go to a football game in this football crazy house because it was not "their" high school's game. Anyway, we met up with an old friend, Nate and his wife and family. They have two adorable little girls and of course, I did not take pictures of all of us.... But I did catch the boys being silly.
We had a good time catching up and running into old friends and if you could not tell, it was COLD that night. I think it was the reason we lost. Not really but it sounds good, doesn't it. Smile.