thanksgiving :: 2011 style

We traveled to Denver to spend Thanksgiving with the Schoenfelds and Friedmans. I took barely any photos, and although we had a wonderful and very yummy dinner I have no photos to show it.

However, we were blessed with perfect sunny weather that made it a wonderful time to spend at the park. So while the turkey was cooking and the men were watching football, the rest of us ventured to the neighborhood park.

We always have a good time when we go to the park.

Chase will always be the first to find the dirt and someone big enough to help him play in it.



We even played a very fun and very active game of freeze tag. Adults winning of course! ;)



Three generations!

Fisher just loves puzzles and he even helped his cousin Emily with a very hard one!

This Thanksgiving I was grateful for my beautiful children I have been blessed with; My amazing husband who has supported and lifted and guided me through some pretty crazy times; my wonderful friends who I just absolutely adore and I am thankful to be blessed to be a part of such a great and wonderful family.

 

It was a blessed Thanksgiving for sure

11:11 on 11/11/11

I enjoyed this exciting moment in time by doing laundry, vacuuming rooms and watching my two littlest ones play together.

Nothing too exciting but still just as enjoyable! :)

read

We love reading in our house. It's one of our favorite things to do around her and our kids just enjoy all the fun stories.

When I couldn't find Chase or Kory during Sabrina's party my bother informed me that they were upstairs reading together.

Chase just loved having Kory read to him. Cousins are just the best!

The other day I caught Fisher sitting on our steps reading to himself. He had a big pile of books and he just sat there, telling stories.

He was telling stories of a bunny.

I could seriously watch and listen to him read all day long.  I am so proud of his amazing accomplishments he has made. He is growing and progressing so much and I just love capturing these moments.

fall happenings

So far the fall nights here have been wonderful and we are really enjoying it right now. It's been perfect for after dinner walks and trips to the neighborhood parks, were we swing and slide and play till the sun slowly slips away.

I know this picture doesn't show it, but Miss Sabrina does love the swings.

So do her brothers.

Fisher's favorite thing to do at the park. So happy and so content.

It's slowly starting to get colder and darker earlier here now. We haven't had any snow, but we get a lot of thunderstorms during the night that lead to damp and wet days, but it has still made for plenty of wonderful walks and exploring for picking up leaves and acorns.

Hope your fall weather is creating wonderful memories for you and your little ones!

We miss you!

our first guest

We were lucky to have our first guest come and stay in our new home last weekend. Wayne's dad and his wife Lisa traveld all they way from Alaska to check out Kansas City and see our new place.

The first day they were here we took them to all of the neat and fun shops. We went to the Crown Plaza to check out Crayola Cafe and the cool toy store they have there. Then we headed to the Legends to check out the neat dinosaur restuarunt and watch the fun fountains.

Pops and Lisa were really excited to try out all of the Kansas City BBQ. We took them to two popular places and they seemed to really enjoy them. It's true, we have some pretty good BBQ here.

Three generations of Crowders. It was nice to have Wayne's dad here.

The next day we took them to our very fun farm. The kids love going here and there was a lot to see and play with.

Fisher is doing so well at peddling on bikes!! he is learning so much and I am so proud of him!

Some super cute boys!

All the kids just loved the attention they got from their Pops. Chase and him quickly became good friends and he had to be everywhere Pops was. It was so cute to see them bond.

We loved having our first guests! Even though it was a super fast visit it was a really fun one. We were so thankful that they came all the way down and even got to celebrate Sabrina's birthday with us! This visit meant a lot to us and we are so thankful to have such a great family.

this is halloween

we had such a fun year this halloween!

the boys just loved everything about it and were really into trick or treating this year which made it super fun.

Fisher and Chase both love watching Yo Gabba Gabba and when we went to go check out halloween costumes Fisher found this Plex one and just squelled with excitement. We just knew we had to have a Yo Gabba Gabba Halloween this year.

The boys with some of their new friends getting ready to trick or treat!!

Wayne was such an awesome dad by finding and dressing up as DJ Lance Rock from Yo Gabba Gabba! The boys just loved this!!

Such an awesome dad!

Chase was Brobee for halloween(another Gabba character) and although he was so excited about this costume he wasn't a big fan of putting it on. But once it was on he was in true character!

Playing golf at daddy's work!


And how she likes to walk lately!


Hope you all had a very happy and wonderful halloween!!