Thanksgiving

We had a nice Thanksgiving. Was just our family, but was a great day. Ed and boys went and played in the Turkey bowl, they had a great time. We had the traditional dinner of turkey and all the fixings, my favorites of course are the green beans with bacon, and rainbow jello. I love baking pies and they were all yummy. Alycia was so cute doing what I did as a kid with the olives that I had to take a picture. We have a lot to be thankful for, I am especially thankful for my family and friends and for this free country I have to live in and for all of those that make it possible, THANK YOU.

visit from Ed's parents

Ed's parents came for a visit for Ed and his dad's birthday. The kids had school off all week so we went and explored CO Springs. We got to do a lot of fun things. WE went to Seven falls, there are over 200 steps to the top of the water fall, it is really pretty and tucked inside the canyon.

We went to the Fossil Beds and here is a picture of a huge redwood tree that is petrified.

We found this park in Manitou Springs that had this cool toy. Ed had so much fun playing with the kids and making it go really fast so they would fall off.

We went to Garden of the Gods, it is beautiful mountains that the rocks are so unique and amazing to look at, we enjoyed hiking around and exploring.
Here are 2 camels kissing.

We went to Cave of the winds, I thought this was a fun picture, they have these boots sticking out of a hole like someone fell in the kids thought that was funny.

This is the ladder that they used when the cave was first discovered to get in and out of the cave.

We took a day trip to The Royal Gorge which is in Canyon City, it is a huge bridge that you can drive or walk across, it is above the Arkansas river. We took a trolley across to the other side, walked across on the bridge and took a ride to the bottom to the river. Was such an amazing view.

Crossing the bridge, Tyler is A LITTLE EXCITED, lol

Career day!

Alycia's Kindergarten class had career day, and Ed went to participate in it, what a neat day for the kids. They got to hear about so many different careers from firemen, army, pilot, fed ex man (ED lol), dentist, police man, eye doctor, nurse, computer technician, an artist. The kids had such a good time, and Ed enjoyed being there with them. He was so excited to show them his fed ex truck and the kids enjoyed going inside and playing with everything.

halloween

Halloween this is year was so much fun. Bonnie helped out in Alycia's kindergarten Halloween party at school. We went to our church Halloween party, went to a friends Halloween party and took the kids trick or treating, what a busy few days of Halloween. Josh was Yoda, he refused to let me paint his face green, but he still looked good. Aaron was a robot, with a big square head, lol. Tyler was Iron man. Alycia was a pretty unicorn. And Zach made an adorable Soccer ball. We had a great time and the kids got A LOT of candy.

Pumpkin patch

WARNING: There are A LOT of pictures, heehee. Today Zach and I went with Alycia's kindergarten class on a field trip to the pumpkin patch. We had a lot of fun. Alycia was so excited to ride on a school bus for the first time. They got to see animals, ride down a slide on potato sacks, go through a hay bail maze, climb hay bail stacks, go on a hayride, pick pumpkins, eat lunch, play in a corn box ( Zach loved playing with the corn, he was often found running back to it), and much more. The kids had a great time, and the weather was perfect, a perfect day to spend with my kids, I am so blessed.