Go Beavs!

Thanksgiving weekend fun continued on Black Friday (and no, we weren't shopping! Brandon & I did ALL of our Black Friday shopping Thursday night and only went to one store! I LOVE that Walmart price matches! We left our house at 9pm and were back with everything we needed by 11pm! Love it!) Anyways... we decided to go to an Oregon State wrestling meet. It was a lot of fun for the boys... and me. It reminded me of the good ole days before kids when Brandon coached wrestling and I would go to all of his meets.

Brandon can't wait for next year because Porter will be old enough to join a wrestling club... and Porter's excited, too!

On Saturday we took Porter & Hudson to Arthur Christmas. It was a cute movie, but we will probably wait awhile longer to take Hudson back to the theaters. He had a hard time sitting still. I'm glad there were only a few other people there!

Thanksgiving weekend was so fun & we had a great time doing activities together as a family!

Thanksgiving

We had a lovely Thanksgiving this year. Porter and Hudson made these cute turkeys at preschool.

We spent the day at my in-law's house. Brandon's brother and family came up from Salem. Grandma had gingerbread cookies for the kids to decorate.

Then they watched some classic Christmas movies: you know, Rudolf, Frosty the Snowman, etc...

Don't ask.

For Thanksgiving dinner I made a turkey (I totally forgot to get a pic of it! I guess I was too excited to eat it!), homemade rolls, this apple pie ...

and Pumpkin Pie Layered Toffee Cheesecake. That's right, folks. Pumpkin pie on top, toffee cheesecake on bottom. one word-Yum!

Porter & Hudson's contribution to the dinner were these ADORABLE fingerprint turkey place cards. Can you say cute or what? Hudson did his own and then lost interest. Porter finger printed half and I did the other half and Porter wrote all of the names. Sooooooo cute!

Cheers!

Just before we dug in... minus Porter. I didn't get him in the pic. oops!

Cutest Punkin in the Patch!

Our little Punkin is 10 months old!

Brody

*is really wanting to walk. He practices by pushing the high chair around our kitchen! I've seen him stand alone also, so I'm pretty sure it's not going to be too long before he is walking.

*still only has two teeth.

*loves to play peek-a-boo with himself!

*gets so excited when I sign the word for "milk" (and I'm excited to say, he finally started to take a bottle!)

*loves water... a nice warm bath or cold pool, it doesn't matter! He starts splashing as soon as I put him in any water & he doesn't stop until I take him out!

*likes to play with whatever his brothers are playing with. Baby toys, forget about it!

*is still the BEST baby ever!!! and I feel so spoiled to have him!