Thanksgiving 2019

Aaron and Kaori's family came over from Japan to celebrate Thanksgiving and make their yearly trip to the states.  We were so glad they were able to come!  We had a big Thanksgiving with Grandpa and Grandma coming from Arizona.  All of us who live here also came.  John and Allison couldn't make it though.  Since it was such a large group, we had the dinner at the church building.  We played in the gym while dinner was being prepped and after the dinner.  It was a lot of fun to spend time with so much family!

Annmarie's First Lost Tooth!

Annmarie lost her first tooth today.  Of course, Nathan didn't want to be left out of the pictures and since he knocked a tooth out when he was a baby, he wanted to show the opening in his mouth too.

Family Pictures 2019

Every year we get our family pictures done and for the last few years, we've done them around Christmas. I decided to do them a little early this year and get them done before Thanksgiving.  Unfortunately, JC Penney changed their site so you can no longer download the thumbnails to your computer, so I took screenshots with my phone.  The pictures turned out so great for minimal attire planning and the kids were cooperative, amazingly enough!  We'll see how these show up in the book for 2019.

Bowling Fun

We used our POGO passes again and went bowling. It's Thanksgiving break and we have the whole week off, so we're trying to get out of the house a little bit. Westley didn't want to come and Dad was at work.

Mini Golf

We discovered now, five months into our POGO passes, that we can go mini golfing for free once a month at a place about an hour away. So we took advantage of a beautiful day and went with the whole family. Even Westley was there, but we didn't get any pictures of him.

Fence Fix

In April, we added some of this lattice to the front part of our fence on one side of our house because that fence is only six feet high and Willy can climb/jump over it.  Well, he figured out how to climb over in the corner so he started getting out again, so we added more lattice to the side to prevent him from getting out.  So far, so good.

Freezing Football Game and Band Competition

We had our last home football game and it was FREEZING!  Dad had to close, so I brought Travis, Nathan and Jonah with me.  We brought blankets and bought lots of hot chocolate. 

This same weekend Westley marched in Bands of America in San Antonio.  Caleb was there too, as he was on prop crew for the competition band (now called Varsity Band) but there weren't any pictures of him in the BOA professional pictures they sent home.  Here is Westley playing his trumpet.  The end of marching season is always a relief because we are much less busy, but it's also a sad time because it's a lot of fun to go to the games and the competitions.  Can't wait for next year.