November 2015-the Box Month

Somehow I can't find any pictures of Thanksgiving, but I recall we had it with my Aunt Dede and Uncle Chan, as well as a friend named Mark that we know from church.  I know I have a picture somewhere, but I did find some other awfully good pictures.

First, here is Hannah in a cute Halloween skirt made for her by Grandma T.  

We have a picture from a few years ago of either Sam or Thomas with their head in a box.  The next few pictures are an attempt by Thomas and Hannah to reenact that.

Thomas's first lost tooth!

Hannah in a different box (Thomas' treasure box).

And now Hannah in another box. 

Oh, look, Hannah made a box to sit in out of the stool turned upside-down.

Leaves, leaves, leaves, and more leaves.  This was just the back-yard!  We have one less tree this year.   

 And, surprise, Hannah is in a box!  (With a giant bag of craisins.)  All of these box pictures were from the month of November.  I guess she had a thing for boxes that month!

October 2015

Last October's Halloween Festivities.  Hopefully you can tell what they are, but Thomas went with the fireman costume, Hannah was a lady-bug, and Sam was a ghost.  

We took these pictures on a Saturday night close to Halloween.  I found out that there was a free Halloween event at the YMCA so we decided to get costumed and go!  The boys were excited, Hannah was confused but willing to go along, and I was excited.  Dave was gone...out of town maybe?  I can't remember now.  Anyway, we got dressed, face-painted, took pictures, and got in the car.  Then we drove 15 minutes to the YMCA!  Then we wondered why it looked dark and the parking lot was empty.  Uh oh.  Turns out I mis-read the information.  The Halloween event had be the night BEFORE!  So we got donuts instead!  And actually it was good we got pictures on this night because we didn't get any on Halloween night. :)

 Pumpkin guts are always gross!

The finished products!  (Sam didn't want to be seen for some reason.)