Thanksgiving 2011

We celebrated Thanksgiving in Oregon this year. We had dinner over at Sara and Jason's house (they prepared everything and it was so good!!). It was a quick trip but we really enjoyed seeing all our family.

Mick, Will and Doug enjoying Thanksgiving football.
Family picture

Annemarie and Grandma

Will and Jack playing a game

Annemarie making a grand entrance.

The boys with cousin Caleb.

Grandpa and Tyler

Annemarie with the teeny glass Uncle Steve gave her.

Annemarie reading to Jen and Uncle Steve.

Snow!

We had a light dusting of snow on Saturday, so that technically would be our first snow. However, this morning when we got up it was snowing and hasn't stopped yet. I had to scramble and find boots, snow pants and mittens for everyone...thankfully it didn't take long. Bring on the snow!

Singing the praises of snow...

Halloween 2011

So the big difference this year was that we had trick-or-treaters at our home. In past years maybe we'd get two or three (in Oregon and Montana). So this year I was ready. I started stock piling candy so I didn't have to purchase it all at once. We ended up going through 4 large Costco bags of candy and a Costco box of fruit snacks (when the candy ran out).

The kids celebrated Halloween at school, they bring their costumes and then get dressed later in the day. They have parade through the school so all the students can see what each other is dressed up as. The teachers and staff also get into the spirit. Second grade teachers were dressed up as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and 1st grade teachers were fairies. The boys were pretty impressed.

We began our festivities at home around 5p. The Peschels and Erin joined us for food and drinks and then we headed out to trick-or-treat. Erin stayed at the house and handed out candy for us. Stef, Tyler and Kathy stopped by to check out the chaos. Tyler was quite the greeter and wished each and every trick-or-treater Happy Halloween. It was hilarious. The amazing Raider pumpkin above was done by Erin. It received tons of comments and I like to think it was the best looking pumpkin in all of Whitefish!

Jack, Annemarie and Will showing off their costumes
A Storm Trooper, Jedi and Boba Fett. Happy Star Wars Halloween!

John, wearing Annemarie's bumble bee antennas

Trick or Treat!

Candy Monster

"My tummy hurts"

Tyler Larkin - the cutest monkey ever!