Turkey Day!

How in the world has thanksgiving come and gone?  We stayed in Quincy this Thanksgiving since Joey was on call and I just had Thursday off.  It was so fun though!  We had our neighbors, our priest, our neighbors friend, and another friend from town join us.  We cooked all day but the meal turned out awesome and we had a great time with our fun and random group!  

The boys are currently out Christmas Tree hunting.  I have since given that "joyous" family tradition up and left that to be a boy adventure.  If you question why I no longer partake please refer to my Christmas posts from 2012-2015.  When Joey took our huge chainsaw with him today to get the Christmas tree my reservations for joining them were confirmed.

Here are some pics from the last few weeks!

My little turkey!

Just another day in the life.

Prepping for dinner!

Joey did the carving!

Father Steve made the gravy

We forgot to get a picture of my beautiful turkey before we cut into it!

We did a full meal with pies, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, and of course the turkey!  I always think the stuffing mixture is so pretty!

Kids table!

Some of our group!

Me too Abby!  It was a fun but tiring day!

I had an appointment in Chico the other day and got to spend a little time working on Pharmacy stuff in Peet's afterwards!  My favorite place to study when I was going to Chico State.  It is amazing how life changes so quickly--it feels like yesterday I was studying for P-Chem and now I am looking at working on paperwork for my pharmacy.  Life is wild!

Early November 2017

Lots of fun memories this fall! 

Date night with Levi!  I think it ended pretty well!

Soccer sister!

Levi loved his "team" this year and loved his practices!  

What a beautiful place to play soccer!

A week after taking Levi to date night we took this guy!

That date night also ended well!  :)

Just reading books at our new book store.  I'm sure the store owner appreciated the ice cream all over their faces!

Is there something on my face?

Grandpa + Ice Cream = Living the Good Life

Levi says "I can see the whole CITY from here" as if we are overlooking San Francisco or something.  haha!

Pretty proud of myself to get these three out for a hike on my own.  We had such a beautiful fall though and they are all great little hikers!

For Abby it was the year of "not sure why we have to dress like this and not sure why people are handing me candy, but SURE I'll do it this is fun"! 

For the boys there was a hint of "we know what this is all about let's get focused and get that candy"!

We both took the afternoon off to participate in our downtown's Safe Trick or Treat!  The entire town comes out it is so fun!

Watching Owen up in the firetruck!

So fun!

Levi's turn!

Happy Strawberry!

Candy!!

Stephanie and JoAnn dressed up as pill bottles!

Ice Cream time!

She loves wearing our shoes around the house!  It is so funny!

Abby's pup-pup

And her "KITTY"

When it is Levi's turn to hold the Kitty

Joey was gone last weekend so for fun we went to the toy store and the kids traded their candy in for toys.  Note to self: don't buy toys that take up to a week to produce.  This someday will be a crystal.  Owen asked my 10,000 times when it will be a crystal.  :/  

Another rookie mistake: buying eggs that hatch dinosaurs that take 72 hours to hatch.  Our rainy day toy fun was a little disappointing.  

Thankfully Abby's crystal worked within a matter of hours!

48 hours later--Levi's is hatching.  The big question: is it a REAL dinosaur??  Because it is starting to look like a T-Rex and T-Rexs are pretty mean...

Day 3: Owen's finally cracks!!!

My Helper!

That looks about right!

Another hike to the Q with Colleen and her boys!  Snow on the mountains this time!

Owen writing out the Power Rangers Theme Song!  In his class they teach them to sound it out and write it out and don't get caught up on spelling.  This is too cute!

I give her a spoon and she sets it aside for a better spoon.  :/  

Why not!?

Sierra Buttes Hike

We drove over to the Sierra Buttes for a hike and it was as beautiful as ever!  Lucky to get to live where we live!!  Levi is really into hiking lately and it is so fun!  

It was so funny--every time the wind blew Abby would say "owwwwwyyyy" like it was hurting her!  haha  The wind was cold!

Levi learning to walk on a log!  He did awesome!