Happy Thanksgiving!

This year Andy & Allison spent Wednesday night at our house so we could spend all day on Thursday together. We had a great time! Allison & I leisurely prepared the meal throughout the day on Thursday. Mark & Joanne Stump & Ryan VanSteenis came over to celebrate with us in the evening. The kids also had a great time with all of their friends in the neighborhood. I've included a picture of them playing touch football in our neighbor's yard. Well, I hope each of you had a wonderful holiday!!

2007 School Pictures

Sorry for the sloppy scan - but at least the pictures came out pretty clear!!

Happy Halloween!!!

You can't tell these two are brother & sister can you?!

On Sunday we went to a Halloween Party at Mike & Melissa Lastrina's house. If you haven't guessed from the pictures - Jake went as Magnum PI, with the harry chest, short shorts & all! We had a great time. I just laughed all night at Mike & Jacob in their short shorts!

On Halloween we took the kids to "Trunk or Treat" at Seacoast Grace Church. This is something we went to our last Halloween in CA. People from the church park their cars in a few rows - decorate their trunks or the back of their vans / trucks & fill them with candy. The kids then go around & have a safe place to trick-or-treat. Plus they had a ferris wheel, slide & many fun carnival type booths. The kids had a blast! Blake was a skeleton and Mackenzie was a Geisha Girl. We had a hard time finding something that Blake & I both agreed on - he wanted something with blood & guts. This was our compromise. We sprayed Mackenzie's hair black, but we didn't get around to painting her face white. She did get to wear make-up though!

I also had to post a picture of our fat lobster!