thanksgiving

We are so thankful for all that we have - our friends, family, our home, our jobs, and our health. Things couldn't get any better.

After a delicious dinner, I headed out with some girlfriends to go Black Friday shopping. It was borderline scary, but lots of fun. We came home around 4:3 am, exhausted.

Our best purchase? A $5 kitten from the shelter where I volunteer. We named her Friday. Isn't that appropriate? She LOVES the kids and our other cat has been rejuvenated. Here's a terrible pic of her cute face!

Gibby - 2011

Jack attends a small, private preschool. It's a great program and part of the 4 year old class is the class pet, Gibby. Each child gets several turns to take Gibby home. Part of having Gibby in your home is that you must document what your child does with Gibby and print the pictures and enter them into a journal.

We were so lucky to have our Christmas pictures being taken while Gibby was visiting and our photographer was kind enough to take one of Gibby! It looks like this was Gibby's first debut in the pro photog world :)

trick or treat!

The kids had the best time trick or treating. My mother flew in and really enjoyed taking the kids to gather candy!

J and C last about an hour, and then Jack wanted to pass out candy - his favorite part of Halloween. Claire fell asleep soon after we visited Buck I Guy's house. He lives a few houses down from us and had a huge line of kids to have thier pictures taken.

He drives by all the time and blares old school rock and roll, as well as bad 90's rap music. He is the nicest man and anyone who went to Ohio State knows fans like this are a dime a dozen - but he has made it to the news and on TV many, many times. Kind of liek the Neutron Man of the 1990's/early 2000's (only the Neutron man was a jerk!)