Turkey Day!

This was the first Thanksgiving we've spent on our own without any other family. Even when we lived in Iowa we always spent it with Rian's cousin's family. Rian thought it would be too lonely by ourselves and I didn't want too make a bunch of food for our little family and end up with a bunch of leftovers. So we invited another family in our ward/neighborhood to join us who was also going to be spending Thanksgiving by themselves. I am proud to say that I successfully cooked my very first turkey and everything turned out really well. As you can see from the pictures, even Isaac and Ian loved all of the food.

Birthday Boys

Isaac's birthday is on the 10th of November and Ian's in on the 13th. With their birthday's being this close together, Ian of course was not willing to wait a few days to celebrate his. To cut down on the amount of cake we would be eating this week, I made one and cut it in half to decorate for each of them. After Isaac and I finished decorating his cake, I was about to put Ian's away to save for a couple of days. Instead, Ian got up to the counter, stuck a knife in the frosting and started frosting his cake, too. So we just decided to go ahead and celbrate for both of them on both of their birthdays. Rian's parents came over for both of their birthdays and we had had some of the neighbor friends over another day to help us eat some cake and ice cream, too. Basically we did a lot of celebrating for our 2 "big boys".

Trick-or-Treat

This was the easiest Halloween yet because the kids actually wanted to wear a costume that we already had. This year Isaac was pretty set on being Anakin from Star Wars and, as you can see from the pictures, Ian changed his mind. For our neighbor's Halloween party, Ian wanted to carry on the Star Wars theme and dressed as Darth Vader and then on Halloween night he decided to wear the black spider-man costume. We had a pretty fun and laid back Halloween. We took the kids to the ward trunk-or-treat for an hour, went to a friends house for dinner to get the kids some real food before the candy/sugar high, and then Rian took the boys to trick-or-treat around the neigborhood while I handed out candy at home. (I preferred to be inside where it was warm.) Isaac actually got really excited about handing out candy this year, too. After Rian was done taking the boys around the neighborhood, Isaac sat by our door waiting for more trick-or-treaters to come while Ian sat with his collection of candy picking out which one to eat next. Believe it or not they really did go to bed pretty fast despite how much sugar they had consumed. I think all the Halloween activities just finally wore them out.