Mom's Birthday Party

For Mom's birthday, I made a special supper for her: chicken and noodles, cheesy green beans, snickers apple salad, rolls, and pumpkin pie (Anthony made the crust).

eating supper

lip gloss from Austin

wall sconces

fleece pj pants

welcome sign

Mom with the pumpkin pie

Blowing out the candles

We had a great time celebrating Mom's birthday!

~Amber~

Painting

Our latest project has been to pain the living room and entry way. We have white walls in the whole house for as long as we have lived here (ten years!). It has taken a month because Dad wanted to do it to make sure it was done right. ;) The color for the living room changed several times, but we finally decided on doing a watercolor with a lighter basecoat and a darker brown and a coral color over top. It turned out really nice!

living room walls

Now we can put the living room back together and decorate for Christmas!

~Amber~

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

Happy Birthday Mom!!!!

Thanks for all you do for us that often goes unoticed (clean the house, do laundry, pick up after everyone, do school with the boys, etc.). Thank you also for putting up with us even when we can unlovely! ;0 We apreciate and love you!!!

~Amber, Andrew, Anthony, Aaron, Austin, and Alec

Thanksgiving Day

We went to Grandma and Grandpa Gillingham's house for Thanksgiving Day again this year. It was smaller this year without Andrew, Zach, Mike, and Uncle Phil, Aunt Nancy and the kids. We had a great time.

Brittney did an art project with the boys. They made a turky and drew things on the feathers that they were thankful for.

Britt cutting out the turkey heads
Adam

Austin drawing on his feathers

some of Austin's finished feathers

Alec's speciality is climbing on things- especially tables.

Aunt Teresa and Aunt Emily

cutting the pies

in line for dessert

Anthony enjoying his pumpkin pie

playing Thanksgiving music

Toby

Rachel after she was done eating her cereal

cutie pie Rachel

There will a lot pics of her on this post because it is so fun to capture all the expressions that babies have.

Love the eyebrows!

This is probably my favorite one of her! Too funny!

Uncle John

Anthony

Aaron

Brittney and Rachel

Aunt Emily and Adam

Aunt Teresa
Grandma

Mom

Anthony and Brittney playing on the keyboard.

Grandma and Aunt Teresa

looking at the pictures Dad took of different people's funny facial expressions

Ben and his girlfriend Liz

Dad and Alec

Matt, Uncle Dan, and Aunt Darlene

Britt and Toby

We had a great time spending with our family and being thankful for all that God has done for us.

~Amber~