Thanksgiving 2015

Happy Thanksgiving! We haven't been to my parents house since Labor Day so the kids are excited. That's a long time for us when you're used to going every month. 

They added new toll lanes on 405 recently so we had to buy a Good to Go Pass in order to use these lanes as carpool lanes. Such a racket and so dumb. But as we flew past all this traffic on a holiday weekend I was loving life.

We had Thanksgiving with Kyle's family this year and did it at Melanie's house. She didn't have the kids, but we did it with her, Dee Ann and Arlene. The food was delish and we were plenty full. 

Chelsea is in love with horses so she found them in Owen's room and it looks like this is her horses' trough. haha. The night before we were at my parents and Chelsea touched their hot fire place plate and burned her hand pretty bad. She was a mess and didn't go to bed for a while because it hurt so bad. We had her sticking it in a bowl of cold water and that felt the best. At one point we wrapped it up with aloe vera gel thinking she would be okay, but all she wanted was us to rip off the bandage and stick her hand in water then she was relieved. Poor girl. 

Melanie and I conquered Target on Thursday night after dinner and right before we went back to Mattawa. It wasn't too busy. I was surprised the line wasn't longer. We only got there 20 minutes before they opened the store so it wasn't too bad. We both got what we wanted so we were happy mamas. :) The day after Thanksgiving I went back into Tri-Cities with my Mom and sisters to do Black Friday shopping. We were able to buy all my Dad's Christmas gifts so we were happy about that. We found some other good deals at Target and Walmart then the guys came into town and met us at Panda Express for dinner. Then we went to see a movie, the last Hunger Games movie. It was slow and boring, but we had to see it because it was the last movie.

On Saturday morning, we went up to the school and played volleyball against the Jenne family. It was fun. The younger kids played around the court while the adults played, but they had more fun on wheely carts and jump ropes swinging each other around. 

We had to do some crafting! I requested we do the Merry & Bright sign. Sara and my Mom made my wishes come true. I love it! Jeni and my Mom made us the Thanksgiving one which is cute too. 

My Mom made gingerbread men with the kids on Sunday afternoon. She made some so we could hang them up on our tree.

We stopped at my Grandpa and Grandma Sabin's house on our way home Sunday to visit. Chelsea was cute and talked with Grandpa a lot of the time. She was so concerned that he couldn't walk and she showed him how she could walk. So cute. It was a great Thanksgiving and we were able to see a lot of family. 

UW game and Party

Our friends, Bart and Colleen Fullmer, gave us tickets to a UW game and my Dad being their biggest fan had to come with us! Bart works for the UW athletic department and it's so nice they share their tickets with us! They came over for the day and then spent the night because our Primary Program was the next day. It worked out great. The game was fun, but my Mom and I almost didn't go because of the weather. It was raining so hard and my Mom doesn't even really like football games, but I convinced her to go. We caught the bus at Northgate and rode to the stadium. Our seats were on the back wall so we had a little awning over us that saved us or else we would have been soaking wet and miserable. We stayed dry and relatively warm throughout the whole game while it poured outside. UW played Utah and lost...which was a bummer. We met the parents of the kicker on the UW team. They are from California and fly up for all their son's games. They used to have a jean business where they designed and manufactured high end jeans. It was interesting to talk to them. The area we sat in is where all the family to the players and coaches sit.

Preston is now a cub scout! Eeks! I sewed on all these patches which was a big pain because I did it by hand. There's this sticky stuff called Badge Magic and I didn't want to spend the extra money for it because the uniform, book and badges were expensive enough! BUT after sewing them on I might just go buy some. haha. So far he's been to a couple cub activities and loves it. 

I threw a Favorite Things Party. It was a lot of fun. I had people bring 3 items of the same thing where each one cost $10 or less (so you find one of your favorite thing for $10 or less and buy 3 of them). We put our names in a container then drew out 3 names. The names we drew out were the people we gave our favorite things to. We all went away with some new Christmas gift ideas. It was a fun night and I'm glad so many could come.

Kate has been bugging me to take her to the 2 story Target in Northgate. She's been before, but didn't remember it. So I took the kids by myself because Kyle was gone that night and the kids were horrible. Mainly Chelsea. It was embarrassing. I wanted to turn around and leave except we drove all this way and we had just walked in the door. And our cart got stuck in the cart elevator. Memories.

We had a no school day because of another wind storm that knocked power out to lots of schools in the school district. We went and had "recess" at a nearby school. It was a nice day and we still had power so it was kind of lame school was cancelled for us. 

I liked this 'thankful' banner my friend made for our Relief Society Thankful dinner we did before Thanksgiving. I got to keep it and was so excited to hang it up on my mantel. 

Halloween

 My Mom made these cute trick or treating bags for the kids with her fancy sewing machine. Kate's is the witch feet with a skirt, Preston's is Frankenstein, Lindsey's is the cat and Chelsea's is the ghost. She even made the bags!!! Seriously.

Chelsea did Peppa pig, Preston an Angry Bird, Kate a ghost and Lindsey a funny face.

Doc McStuffins (Chelsea), Little Bo Peep (Lindsey), Mario (Preston), Cowgirl (Kate)

At our ward Halloween party

I had to document how annoying the pine trees are behind our house. They make the biggest mess on our roof, gutters, back yard and front yard. This picture is of our front steps covered with pine needles. They are a pain to sweep up too. I can't wait for those trees to get removed. 

Sorting out all the candy after trick or treating.

Matt and Danielle Apken and their kids McKenna and Cade were coming up to North Bend from Oregon for a baby blessing so they stopped by on Halloween for dinner and went trick or treating with us.

Chelsea and McKenna were being pretty cute together. 

We had to make a trip to our favorite pumpkin patch, The Farm. They added this huge new slide with gunny sacks and the kids had fun with it.