Gratitudes...November 20th

As Thanksgiving is less than a week (gasp!) away...I thought I would write out some gratitudes.

This morning I am thankful for friends who encourage me to workout!

Thankful to be in a healthy body that can...

Thankful that Marg is here and we get to go on a 24 hour date this weekend! Yahoo!

Thankful for the community of women that I've met out here on YPG.

Thankful for the little boys who create life and chaos and love and havoc in our house...particularly this morning.

Aiden got up and is in a grumpy little mood. Frankly he is being quite nasty! I had to send him back to his room... told him to come back out when he has a new attitude!! :)

Up very early this morning...woke at like 5:15 and couldn't go back to sleep. Thinking about lots of stuff... so... of course I got up and hopped on the internet! Looking at my scrap sites I like to visit and this one is giving away really cute stuff.... http://donnadowney.typepad.com/... trying to increase my odds of winning!

Layout for Finn...

I've never taken pictures of any of my scrap stuff so I wasn't sure how this would come out. You can get a decent look at this layout that I did for Finn's second year. It ended up looking a little busier than I had wanted but I knew I wanted alot of photos on here.

All Hallow's Eve

The night before Halloween we ventured down to the YPG Haunted House... the first hour is the "not-so-scary" version for the younger kids. Here we are waiting to go in...

Finn with his always present hand toy... tonight it was the little Chinook helicopter.

Aiden... on the edge of his seat!

Collin, Finn and Jim...

Halloween night we began at the Mikkelsen's who welcomed us for a scary dinner. Then we all headed up to our house for some trick or treating. Aiden got a big splinter in his finger that had to be removed and he about fell apart with that (no nap) but then he pulled himself together to be the Dark Ninja that he wanted to be alongside the Brave and Heroic Batman!

...and after all the tricks were had... a few more pictures of all the treaters! Emily was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz and Adam was...His Dad! Complete with homemade Freefall Jump costume! Hilarious! They all had a blast walking around w/ the Collin and Reed who pulled the wagon that eventually got all filled up w/candy! Seriously.

They have a Fall Festival here every year down on the ball field. Collin was away but we still went...there was a jumpy house...how could we not go? And of course, the obligatory bag of Halloween candy! My companions were Spiderman and Batman.