Just Wonderful!

Despite the quick and stressful move Michael and Brooke made back to Utah we have had a lovely time these past two weeks. I will miss seeing Ryan grow but they have their own plans for life at this point.

Savannah's Improv Theatre was a lot of fun! Charlie and I got quite a few laughs - I think I will sign her up for next year's classes.

Savannah being an elephant during a game they played where they have to become what the other person says within the count of ten.

Mom and Grandy arrived on Friday before Thanksgiving - it was great to sit down and catch up on life. We enjoyed each other's company visiting and talking about nothing. Savannah lost a tooth shortly after they were settled in so it was funny to see her excitement and Grandma and Grandy get a kick out of the tooth fairy mysteriously coming not once but twice.

Sunday we took a ride up to Door County and ate at the Shipwrecked pub and grill and on the way home I stopped and got a couple candlesticks for my dining table that I've been wanting for Thanksgiving. Jake came over Wednesday night after work and Mom and Randy took us to Perkins. This past Saturday we tried Old Chicago - the food and atmosphere was all so awesome. This in addition to the food my hubby cooked for us in between the times we went out and of course ate left overs - well we were not underfed by any means. And not only did we eat a lot we watched a lot of movies, sat in the hot tub, and us girls went to the Nutcracker ballet. We had a lot of fun. It will be a Thanksgiving I will never forget!!

They left this morning and I am left with the memories. Here are just a few pics:

Mom and Savannah making pumpkin pies!

Apple, Cherry, and Pecan - yum!

Charlie's deviled eggs - triple yum! These didn't make it past half time during the Packer game either.

Waiting to eat while I take pictures.

The table setting - Savannah made these name cards. 

Grandy is telling another one of his stories as you can see by his expression.

Mug shots during dinner - these are always good for blackmailing...

I think I will miss sitting at the table in the mornings in our jammies and drinking coffee over the newspaper the most though. I hope I can visit them again soon. Thanks mom and Randy for a great time! We miss you so much already!

Halloween & Brownies

Halloween was a lot of fun, colder than last year however. I made taco soup and had cider and doughnuts to carry on Grandma Johnson's tradition. The kids got a lot of candy and we spent the night visiting without the TV on - it was quite pleasant. I would like to have the TV off more often.

Happy Jack O'Lantern

Neytiri from Avatar - all the people liked her costume and didn't know who it was, I think it was the most original.

Little dinosaur's first Halloween.

Savannah is in girl scouts again. This is her 1st year as a Brownie! She went with her troop to a compass course in the woods and they are now collecting items for Goodwill donations. She is also having a program next week for her final Theatre class.

We are looking forward to having Grandma and Grandy for Thanksgiving this year. It will be cold and icky but at least we will all be together. I even bought some tickets to see the Nutcracker for a girls day out - it will be nice and I will miss them when they leave but I will try not to think about that already.

Pumpkin Place 2011

We are a couple weeks behind in our annual visit to the pumpkin patch, but we made it and had a great time. Here are some of the pictures to prove it!

Savannah and Ryan at the petting zoo. He wasn't sure what to think of everything around him. I think he was more curious about that pokey stuff he was sitting on and all the people standing around looking at him than he was about the bunny rabbits.

Pretty Llama face. I just had to post this picture cause have you ever seen such a photogenic Llama?

Savannah met a real live Ballerina Bunny (the name of her favorite stuffy she sleeps with since she was 3 years old - and she is also white with long ears)

Two little Pooh Bears as cute as can be.

Ma and Pa

Savannah and Ryan and a tyke sized pumpkin.

Ryan was trying to eat this pumpkin...then it started falling to slide off his lap and as you can see he was trying to hold onto it for dear life. He did not want to let that pumpkin go!

I have so many more pictures it would take me all day to post them but after the petting zoo Savannah played some pumpkin bowling and then led us through the corn maze. She played in a corn box (a sand box with corn kernals in place of sand) and then she and Ryan went for a wagon ride around the rest of the yard. It turned out to be a beautiful day - on the cool side, but beautiful. Now on to carve the Jack O'Lanterns. Yep. The messy part.