Good-bye Halloween and Hello Pre-Thanksgiving

Here is Lyza in a pretty red dress last Sunday

 Mason proud of another one of his construction projects

 Not my first choice of seating

 Kim helped the kids clean out the pumpkins

Mason warmed up to the idea and actually liked it

Nixon loved it

 Lyza, not so much 

 We carved and painted that evening as a family

 And also did some Halloween crafts

 The spooky results

 Is that a bubble goatee? 

 Nixon and his BFF picking Lyza up from the bus

 Nixon got to vacuum all by himself

 Henry is 2 months old!

Here is an interview with him ;)

 On Halloween the kids went to iHop for pancakes

 And the boys got to play together

 That is one interesting costume Nixon

 That looks like a peacock ready to trick or treat

 The spookiest house award goes to...(the house two doors down from us)

 Who could say no to them?

 Counting their bounty

 Good morning Henry

Henry is basically a celebrity in the mornings. The bigger kids are so excited to see him

 Lyza didn't have school on Friday so Kim made sure there were lots of fun activities for the kids

 I guess Mason's tummy wasn't feeling well

Then he fell asleep in that chair

Nixon was excited to try a sour warhead candy. This is what happened

 We finally assembled this t-rex from Grandma and Grandpa Keyes

 Saturday morning Lyza had a book set up upside down and was looking at it like this and amazed that it made the book look the right way

 After cleaning the church I took the big boys to Home Depot to build helicopters

 The finished product

I think this Google automatic creation is pretty funny. What is Google trying to say?

 Some serious playing with these three

 Yesterday I got up on the roof to clean off pine needles, clean out the gutters, and hang up the Christmas lights

 Here is a view of the backyard

This is what it looked like our first fall in the house

Mason was so tired yesterday afternoon that while we were making dinner we noticed he was being awfully quiet, which usually means he is getting into trouble. Instead, we found him passed out on the floor 

Take care