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NOVEMBER IN PICTURES

WOW!! Things sure have been busy this past
month. No regrets but I have definitely had to
neglect my blog. So lets do a quick-ish summery of November.

Vinny and his wrestling has been going full steam. Right now he is undefeated and his team is 6-1. I am so very proud and a big supporter of my son and his team. GO VINNY and GO BULLDOGS!!

We also got to spend some time with my Sister-in-law who is my bestest friend and her little family. I loved getting to love on my newest little niece Sailor. My ex husband finally tied the knot with his long time girlfriend and gave my kiddies and new stepmom. She's a real nice lady and we're happy that she has joined the family. We got a surprise when James' other brother from out of town showed up and asked if they could stay two weeks so that they could scout the area for a place to live in town. (YAY!!) I was instantly excited because that meant I was going to get to spend two whole weeks with my niece Talia and nephew Ben that we very rarely get to see. They arrived just in time to join in on the pre-Thanksgiving crafts and decorating. We started out making some awesome smelling gingerbread play dough. the girls added to the fun when they pulled out the cookie cutters to make Thanksgiving shapes out of dough.

While the boys stayed focused on the games the girls helped make salt dough so we could make hand print turkeys and letters for our names. They were all going on our Thanksgiving mantel. We all snuggled in the living room to watch some Thanksgiving cartoons while our shapes dried in the oven and cooled. Then it was time to paint. Nov. 20th was Sweet little Talia's 6th Birthday So my bestie brought some birthday cupcakes the weekend before and we had her a little party and once again I got to spend a little more time with Sailor.

I always love to get updated pictures of family whenever we all get together. Our mantel was finally finished. They did such a fantastic job!!

We also took advantage of the not so cold weather to spend a lot of time outside

going to parks

and the lake. I of course had my camera on hand to capture the fun photo ops.

Finally Thanksgiving had arrived! Ready for family and food.

Daily we had all said something we were thankful for and now it was time to enjoy our traditional family gathering and honored family football game that we have done every Thanksgiving and Christmas since my kiddies were babies.

James played hard, got his belly full and was out. It was such a great day!!

Nov. 23 I packed all the Thanksgiving stuff away and James pulled out all our Christmas stuff. I prefer to wait till after Dec 1st before putting up the tree but he's really been filled with Christmas cheer this season so we put up the tree minus the ornaments. The kids were with their dad and that has always been their part so we waited till they got home so they could do the honors. I did set out my Christmas village and hung our stockings. Which of course lead to more photo taking.

Well that just about sums up our FULL fun filled wonderful month. All except for the many MANY

Wrestling matches and trampoline fun!!

PUMPKIN CARVING FUN

This weekend we had so much fun

carving our pumpkins for Halloween.

Every year we take the kids to pick out

one pumpkin each that they get to clean

out themselves and then go online to

pick out the faces they want me to carve

for them. It won't be to much longer

before I pass over the tool and let them

carve their own pumpkins but for the

time being I enjoy doing that part.

Pumpkin carving is so much simpler

when you have a pumpkin carving kit.

This is what I purchased last year.

It's a neat little kit and it also comes

with stencils to use. I don't know if other

kits are build as durable as this one but

I was actually able to use it last year and

almost finished my project this year. I

will be buying a new set next season

because both my little carving tools not

only bent but the smallest ones blade

broke off.

The kids choose to go online to find stencils for their pumpkins. There are many different free sites that can be used or if you want something with a lot of detail they have sites where you pay for the ability to print your stencil. Also you can just search "Pumpkin carving stencils or templates" on your favorite search engine and you'll find many more printables.

Here are some wonderful sites that have

some sweet stencils.

And for those who don't mind paying

http://ultimate-pumpkin-stencils.com/
http://www.zombiepumpkins.com/patterns

Hope these sites could be of some help

and HAPPY CARVING :)

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

http://www.ashleysisk.com/scavenger-hunt-sunday-115/

1.KISS

My Daughter Santana receiving lots of puppy love from our Pit Isis.

2.Askew

This is one of the poles we had our volleyball net on this summer. James moved it later to hang a rug on when he was teaching the kids to shoot a bow so that the bows would not get lost in the woods. We've had so much rain that the pole is now leaning to the side.

3. Fragrant

A bit scary looking I know but this is our oil burner that we buy lovely smelling oils for to keep the house smelling wonderful.

4. Simple

Walking through the house looking for a simple shot I happened to see a sandpaper block and a couple screws laying on the counter where James had left them after working on a project.

5.Plant

This is the oddball plant that has grown out of my rose garden. We are just letting it grow to see what it produces. I guess when we were planting the garden on the other side of the porch one stray seed was dropped into my rose garden.

MOVIE NIGHT 9/13/12

It's always nice to pick at least one night every week out of the hustle and bustle to snuggle in with the family and watch a movie together.

NICK'S MOVIE PICK

DESPICABLE ME in 3D

One of my favorite parts!!

Despicable Me is a compelling animated comedy about an aging super villain's falling popularity at the hands of a younger supervillain and three young orphan girls. Gru is a true, bad-to-the-core evildoer who's earned the title of the world's No. 1 super villain.

Gru

Vector

But when young upstart Vector steals the Pyramid of Giza, Gru's status suddenly sinks to No. 2. Gru counters his fall by speeding up his plan to shrink and steal the moon,

Going to steal the MOON!!

Dr. Nefario

enlisting the help of his army of minions and the elderly Dr. Nefario, but a lack of funding and the difficulties involved in stealing the needed shrink-ray gun threaten to derail everything.

Minions

Adopting three young orphan girls is an unlikely, but seemingly effective means to further Gru's evil mission, but Gru quickly discovers that caring for three young girls is more work, and distraction, than he could ever have anticipated.