Thankful November

I decided that at the end of each week I would blog about the things I have been thankful for the last week.  These will be more of the smaller, frivolous things that make life fun for me.  Of course I'm thankful for home, husband and children so don't worry.  I read a great definition of happiness the other day.  It's not so much having what you like but liking what you have.  These are the things I'm glad I have in my life at this moment.

November 1:  Thankful to have a daughter who loves to write her parents nice notes about how cool we are.  Can I hope this will continue into her teenage years?

November 2:  Thankful for books that I enjoy reading so much that it is hard to put them down for bedtime and can't wait to get a chance to get back to it the next day (even if I have to wait all day!).

November 3:  Flannel Sheets.  Jeff and I put on our flannel sheets and I'd forgotten how warm and cozy t hey are to slip into on a chilly winter night.  I was so excited about them that I went out and bought a set for everyone!! 

November 4:  Thankful for a garden/yard.  As I mostly finished preparing our yard for winter today I thought about how therapeutic an hour or so working in the yard is for me.  Whether it's weeding, planting, projects like mulch circles around our front yard trees or a raised garden bed I really enjoy working outside.  I've always been a little bit of a black thumb and I'm hoping I can learn really fast and become a green thumb!!

November 5:  Thankful for good food and always having food.  One of the basic necessities of life, but I've been more excited about food than ever in the last couple years due to a few things and I love trying out new recipes.  This picture is of our Halloween meal of ghosts in the graveyard (shepherd's pie) and tonight I made my first chili and it was delicious with a side of homemade bread, fruit from J's mom and pineapple upside down cake that I'd been wanting to make again!

Fall/Halloween Fun

We made chocolate Halloween suckers and had them at our picnic before entering Barnyard Boo at Thanksgiving Point.  We also made smoothies one night and had leftover so we made smoothie suckers that we had tonight.  Yummm!!  Thanks for the sucker mold Grandma!!

At Barnyard Boo.  J & the girls loved the Halloween croquet

I asked the lady across from us to take a picture on the "hayride" (where there was no hay)  They had a number of fun activities at the farm and we had lots of fun....aside for the 45 min. we waited to ride the horses.  

Little A's dance class did Halloween costumes for class last week

What a cute little dancing fairy!

After learning a little about pumpkins I took the preschool kids to the farm that we visited last week and we had lots of fun!

Pumpkins are too fun

On our day off school we visited Great Grandma!  We brought a warm snack to share, visited and jumped in the huge piles of leaves she had in her backyard.  B got Grandma's dog Buni into the action throwing him into the leaves too.  

Carving pumpkins!

Two fairies and Waldo before our Halloween party.  I finally won a party on houseparty.com and we had our party yesterday!

 

The kids thought this Mummy Wrap game was loads of fun!

My what good mummy's!

Houseful of kids!!  We played Skeleton skeleton where's the skeleton, Mummy Wrap, Pumpkin suck, Hay search, Halloween picture walk and made a Spook house for the kids to walk through.  I was sad we didn't get any of our spook house that we made but know that it was pretty awesome before it got torn down!  We also had spooky snacks and the kids had a blast and we got to know some of our neighbor kids better.