Turkey Day, You Bet!

November has long been one of my favorite months. It has Thanksgiving, a holiday devoted to eating good food, it has the beginnings of winter, and the anticipation of ski season and Christmas holidays. It is the best and consequently busiest months of the year. Only two posts so far this month!

We had a good five day Turkey break with dinners at both my parent's house and ViviAnne's parent's house. After dinner at my parents we went down the street to visit the Hollands. Liam built a crazy domino tower with Josh while we chatted for a couple of minutes. I also spent most of Saturday helping Russ and Autumn do electrical work in their new house. I have a couple of pictures form the long weekend to share as well. I will try to post one more this month, but you never know, you may have to wait until December.


I made Cheddar Beer Bread last night in the bread maker. Mmmmm!

Do ya Doula

I spent yesterday evening at ViviAnne's doula association meeting. It was a lot of fun and I am glad that they invited me to join them. They have asked me to build them a simple website to promote their association and I agreed. They are a great group and I think that they will enjoy having a little website as well. I even started making the pages up and will continue developing them over the next couple of weeks. I will add a link here too, once the site is live and kick'n. ViviAnne also meets with a birthing class tonight to discuss her doula service and the Bringing Baby Home parenting classes that she is now trained in.

My sister-in-law has surgery this Friday and I am hoping that everything goes well. ViviAnne is making a lasagna for Shynne's family to eat and my mother-in-law is going to go take care of her on Thursday. My sister, Vera also arrives on Saturday, but will spend a couple of days at the cabin with my parents before coming down to visit with us. I think the plan is to all have Thanksgiving Dinner together on Wednesday with my family and then on Thursday with ViviAnne's family. If we end up going to Shynne's, we will also go see the festival of lights on Friday night. It is a great event where the whole downtown area gets it's Christmas lights turned on and there is a fireworks show over the lake as well. Should be fun.

Holloween and Darius's Birthday

Candy time has come and gone in our house. We went out trick-or-treating on Halloween night. The kids got a couple of buckets of candy and we brought it all home and sorted it all out. It was fun, and all in all, they didn't get to crazy from eating it all over the next 5 days. Partly because, ViviAnne and I snuck most of it in the evening when they were asleep. Hee hee. Mmmmmm candy.

We had a birthday party for Darius on Sunday, a couple of days late, but he was sick on his actual birthday. We made chocolate pudding for him, and he loved it. We also had a couple of presents for him to open as well, like a little scooter to ride around on and some books and little push and pull toys. He has made an almost complete recovery from his surgery two months ago, which is fantastic.

Most of the yard is put away for the winter now too. I spent some time taking down all the garden a couple of weeks ago and mowing the grass and weeds around the house, so everything is ready for snow. Well, all most, I need to go around the yard and pick up toys and tools that the kids have strewn about every were, but then we will be ready.