Thankful...........

We have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. Our family tops the list of what we are thankful for. We had a great time visiting with Ryan's family in Texas for Thanksgiving this year. We missed Jill and D, but are glad that we will see them at Christmas. We had a wonderful time visiting, eating, shopping, and playing. Cole and Kate love playing with their cousins, and mommy and daddy enjoyed the free babysitting. I wish they lived closer :)
The Happy Family!

Ryan's sweet (and almost 91 years old) Granny!

The free babysitting!

Cole and Jonnie with their motorcycle faces!

Caught up!

I just needed to post this, since it probably will not happen again for a long time!!! And yes, all seven posts were done today! See you in a month!

We just got home from our wonderful trip to Houston, Texas to celebrate the marriage of my cousin, David, to his beautiful bride, Cathryn. Ryan met me in Houston on Saturday since Cole had been sick. We had a very busy weekend with the Rehearsal Dinner on Friday evening, a brunch for family and David's groomsmen on Saturday afternoon, the wedding and reception on Saturday evening (and early Sunday morning :), and a brunch for out of town guests on Sunday afternoon. We had a great time!

The lovely bride and groom.

The first dance as a couple.

Yea! Ryan finally made it!

The Winkler Family.

The proud parents of the groom.

A family friend from Kazakhstan brought traditional Kazak wedding gowns for them!

The fabulous and delicious wedding cake!

The groom's cake (a tribute to their engagement in Napa Valley) that I didn't get to taste :( The wine bottles are cake!!!!

My brother and sister in law!

My sweet godson!

My other sweet godson, the ring bearer! Check out the cute shirt! He was so proud of himself!

Finally.....a family portrait!

My mom and dad!

My grandmother!

The groom and me. I have to stop crying at weddings. I lose all of my eye make up!

Priceless........

Ice Cream..........$2.00

Dump Trucks..........$30.00

Neighbors that are best friends..........PRICELESS

Fall at the Lake

We went to the lake the first weekend in November. It was absolutely beautiful....as always. If there was a Walmart closer (or jobs), I would live there. It is my most favorite place to be. Sunsets......I have never seen a prettier sunset than over Lake Bruin.
Cousins sharing a bath.

The "Moose" - he is only 10 weeks older and 10 pounds heavier than Kate.

He really does love her.

Trying to get a good Christmas card for NeNe.

Our Trip to the Zoo

The day after Halloween was not busy and beautiful, so Ryan and I decided to take the kids to the zoo. It was not crowded at all. We had a great time and so did the kids :) Cole playing on a great new playground the zoo just put in for the kids.

We are thinking about getting an Annual Pass to the zoo for next year just for the playground!

Cole favorite part of the zoo trip..... the train ride!

Kate's favorite part of the zoo trip.....digging through her diaper bag :)

Halloween Pictures before Thanksgiving Pictures

As you can see, I did not get a lot of good pictures from Halloween. We had a party at our house for about 50 people. I guess I must have gotten too busy hosting instead of taking pictures! Minnie Mouse... without the ears. She had ears, but they were a little too tight for her big head. Spiderman was too busy fighting his other super hero friends to take pictures for mommy!

While I was trying to get pictures of Kate, Cole was loading our wagon with pumpkins. I think we came home with 6 or 7 pumpkins (that was after I took a few out :)

Kate did not have a good trip to the pumpkin patch. While posing for a picture with her brother at this great set up for pictures, she fell off the bench and out of the pretend house after I told Cole to let go of her neck (not her whole body)! She had a bruised forehead and a scratched cheek to show for our trip for a week! What a bad mommy she has!