Christmas Decorations

The holiday season is here! This time last year we were packing up and moving into base housing and our Christmas decorations weren't so great. This year we couldn't wait to get all the decorations up. We started as soon as we finished our Thanksgiving lunch. Jason and Rachel assembled the tree; Ethan and Rachel did the ornaments all by themselves, I was pretty impressed. As bad as I wanted to rearrange the ornaments I left them just how Ethan and Rachel put them on the tree, they were so proud that I let them do all the ornaments by themselves. They even decorated their trees from last year, we planted them in the flower bed.

The Polar Express 3-D

Thanksgiving break has begun and we started it off by watching The Polar Express in 3-D! The kids love it, can you tell?!

Biloxi Shrimping Trip

What a warm beautiful day to be on a shrimp boat, even if it is the first week of November and Thanksgiving is right around the corner. We did the Shrimp Boat Trip and it was great; perfect length of time and the dolphins were a bonus. This was on our list of things to do while in Biloxi, and I'm glad we did. Interesting fact from today: Did you know a special knot is tied onto the end of the nets today because dolphins were smart enough to learn how to untie the old knots?

Trick or Treat

Even though the kids miss the snow, they were so excited that they didn't have freezing weather for Halloween this year. Rachel finally got to be Tinkerbell, she has been asking to be Tinkerbell for the past few years. We all know that little fairy wouldn't have enjoyed the ND weather very much. Ethan finally decided on what he wanted to be; first it was a policeman, then a fireman, then a doctor, and out of nowhere came a Dallas Cowboy. The weather was beautiful, we made it around 2 blocks on base and the kids were tired of walking. They had more fun passing out candy here at the house.

Halloween Past

I thought it would be interesting to show our past Halloweens in ND, considering the drastic change of climate. The kids endured the snow for sweet treats. Costumes had to be decided by what would fit over snowsuits and snow boots.

Pefect Attendance and Honor Roll

The kids got their first report cards for the year. Rachel got an award for Perfect attendance and Ethan made the Honor roll. They both work really hard to do well in school; definitely take after their mama. Ethan's favorite subject is math, and Rachel loves reading. It's amazing to watch how much they learn, I can't get over Ethan reading a book to me instead of me reading to him. Rachel can't wait to read books to her baby dolls, instead of pretending to read to them.
*Posed pictures rarely work with Ethan, his eyes are always closed.

Pumpkin Party

Our neighbors hosted a kids halloween party and they all carved pumpkins too. As you can see, Ethan went with a classic design, and Rachel went more contemporary and didn't do any carving at all. She just wanted to paint hers, she's such the artist.