Thanksgiving

My parents came out to visit for Thanksgiving and we had so much fun.  Elijah and Jacob were so excited to see their Noni and Grandpa.  We had a great visit and got to show them our life in Ann Arbor.  We went out to breakfast and went to the Farmer's Market and The Hands-on Museum on Wednesday, then Thanksgiving we braved the cold and went to the park for a little while, then back home to cook!

It was so cold Elijah had to borrow Noni's scarf

 This was the first Thanksgiving meal I've ever prepared all by myself at our home.  We actually ate when I planned and I think it turned out pretty good.  The boys and I had made a Thanksgiving tree (thanks for the idea Kristi!) where we got to write down what we were thankful for and then shared them before we ate.  It was fun getting to hear what everyone was thankful for. 

our Thanksgiving Tree

On Friday we did do some shopping, but went after all the crowds died down.  Then we walked down the street to the park and played before it was nap time.

It was a great visit and I'm so grateful that my parents came to visit and see where we are living.  We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and we are so grateful for all our friends and family.

Leaves!

This past weekend Elijah and I spent the afternoon raking the leaves from our front lawn. Let's just say all the leaves in the neighborhood like our lawn the most. We filled up almost 10 leaf bags! Elijah had fun destroying the piles that mommy had made, but he had so much fun with his little rake and even helped me sweep up the sidewalk too.

We just had our first snow fall yesterday which was really exciting! We were on our way out of the house to celebrate a friends birthday, when we discovered it was snowing! We weren't quite dressed for it, but it didn't stick, just fun to look at. It's crazy to think that we live in a place where we will be getting snow outside our front door, I still can't get used to it :-)

Halloween Fun

We missed our annual halloween chili night with the Miller's this year:-(, but found some fun things to do.  Ann Arbor has an annual Halloween festival downtown where the shops hand out candy and kids can come by during the day to trick or treat.  It was really fun, they even had a photographer who snapped pictures of the kids for free and put them up on the ann arbor website.  It was quite a turnout, lots of cute kids in costumes. 

The library had a craft time with donuts and cider so we went to that in the afternoon and Elijah made a Q-tip skeleton man with a cotton ball nose :-) 


We then ventured out in the evening for some trick or treating in a near by neighborhood (a professor gave kevin a tip about this neighborhood) and it was quite an event! They close down the street and there are hundreds of kids walking around door to door( I can't imagine how much candy those people pass out!).  Elijah had fun and was pretty tired when we got home.  It was an eventful day, with lots of candy :-)



It looks like snow, but it's not.  It was actually not too cold!