Thanksgiving

We were able to have family over to our house for Thanksgiving dinner. Yummy food and lots of fun games!

Nana brought Christmas cookies for the kids to decorate.

The day after Thanksgiving, the kids had a blast climbing up Nana's really tall ladder and decorating for Christmas!

They were so proud when they made it all the way to the top! 

 And I had a fun "Friendsgiving" at a friend's house. Love these ladies!

Peace and Pictures

 We went out to the Pineries, this newer area near us with a nice trail. PC likes to run/bike it multiple times a week. He took Goofy, Minnie, and Bucko around the whole trail, while I walked some of it with the little girls. They love to have their picture taken, and we had a blast being in the woods. I need to find more time to do things like this. 

And then that evening, my friend took our family pictures. They turned out so well! Here are a few of them. She needed certain things, like mother/father with older teenage daughter/son, but I thought they all turned out great! We took them at Palmer Park, and I love that you can see Pikes Peak in the background.

Happy Halloween!!

 We helped out at the school's Fall Festival. Tink and her friend helped run our trunk in the trunk-or-treat. They dressed as Dorothy and the Scarecrow with a Wizard of Oz themed trunk. There was a fun run, hot dogs for lunch, and photo opportunities. They did a costume contest as well, and Rosie won second place in the K-3 category as a cowgirl riding on a pegasus! 

We carved pumpkins in the afternoon and baked the pumpkin seeds. 

Minnie had her Homecoming dance that night as well. She had a blast and looked so pretty!

 

Trunk-or-treating in the evening was fun as well. The little girls went as zombies, but I forgot to take a picture! Goofy and Bucko went out with friends. It's weird having a bunch of teenagers!

Cross Country Season

One thing we were really excited about staying somewhat normal, was cross country season. Minnie and Goofy were able to have a full season and their school was even able to get set up for some competitive meets. Bucko started off the season at the high school, but during his annual sports physical, we discovered he has Hashimoto's disease (hypothyroidism) and something going on with his heart. We are still figuring those things out, but he was unable to continue with cross country. (His heart rate is low, and he has arrhythmia. He gets light headed all the time and often blacks out.)

But Minnie had competitions at Peyton and Widefield, plus two "home" meets. Goofy was only able to compete at the home meets, since the others were high school only. 

They ended the season with a lovely sports banquet. They catered Olive Garden and recognized all the kids' hard work. It was great to see, and I'm so happy they pushed through and had a great season.