Thanksgiving

 Some highlights from our Geddes Thanksgiving broo-ha-ha.

 Grandpa playing with baby Abby.

 Doing some relaxing.

Now time to get our Christmas things up!

Wreath Party!

Tonight was the 6th year of our wreath party!!  A blast as always. 

Ready to go!

People starting to arrive.  We ended up with about 15 I think...

Me and my aunt Karleen!!  LOVE her...she's like a sister.

My creation.  I still need to add a few things, but so far it's looking good!

Till next year!!

First Snow

On Friday we got the first snowfall of the season.  And it was enough to make a snowman and an igloo in our front yard!  Makayla was beyond excited to go out and play, and since me and Brooklyn weren't, Jason went out!  He and K-bug stayed out for almost 2.5 hours!  They played, threw snowballs, built a snowman and an igloo.  A very very small igloo, but still cool. 

 I love this picture.  Our snowman is really sad...but she loved it.

 The igloo before it was shaped and hollowed out.   I guess technically it's more of a little snow cave.  But she called it her little igloo.  So little igloo it was!

Then the next day, we just sat around all day and pretty much did nothing.  We loved it!  It was yucky weather outside, so we didn't even want to get out of our PJ's.

Brooklyn's new face she pulls.  So funny.

 Her "cheeese!" face.

 I don't have a clue what Kayla was doing here...but I love it.

That was our weekend.  Not much, but good quality fun.

Cousin night

So last week, G&K had a FANTASTIC idea, which I'm surprised no one had come up with sooner.  We decided to do a babysitting trade, where once a month, each of us takes ALL the cousins.  And the other 2 couples get to have a date night.  Babysitting starts to get pretty pricey when you have more than one kid, and you are gone for 2 or more hours, AND you pay for dinner and or a movie or whatever.  Yikes.  But we are pretty excited that we get the next two weekends for a date night!  We've been struggling to find sitters so we can go out.  Thus, we haven't had a real date night in a long time.  I have high hopes that we can get some good Christmas shopping done, and maybe a night out for dinner!  It's going to be awesome.  If nothing else, we can have some real adult time, even if it's just going shopping for groceries without kids!!  That will be major for me, since I usually go by myself WITH both girls, and it's usually a disaster.
We started it off with all the kids coming to our house so G&K and G&J could go on a date.  We made oreo turkeys.  Good times.  The kids loved them.  Kayla and Haylee made theirs and then promptly ate them, while Dillon tried to make his last as long as possible.  I think he ended up eating it though before he left.

 She informed me that she was "angster".  I think she was going for "gangsta."  Still cute though!

 They were all quite pleased with their final result.

TWO date nights coming up!!  I am so excited!

Halloween fun!!

Makayla was quite possibly the most excited I have ever seen her yesterday.  She could not even wait for it to be Trick or Treat time.  We were going out with our friends and their 2 little boys.  They live 2 houses down, and Kbug and their little Parker are good buddies.  So once 6:30 hit, and it was starting to get a little darker, off we went! 
 
 Starting off, a little pose from Miss Shortcake.  She was so happy with her costume.

 This kills me.  Brooklyn on the left, and Makayla on the right.  Makayla was a little bit older when she wore that costume, buy they look so alike!  I think they look so different right now, but I guess when Kayla was a little younger, they looked very similar!  If only Brookie would tolerate me putting some black on her nose.  Oh well.

 Not so sure about this hug...haha.  She started screaming shortly after this.

 Makayla totally looks like a Geddes to me in this pic.  Crazy.  I really don't see much of that side in her usually.  I think it's the way she's smiling.  That's how Gordon used to smile alot when he was little.

 Here they go!  Parker was Iron man.  So cute!  And Carsen was a cute little pumpkin crawling up the stairs.

 These are our neighbors up the street.  They went all out!  This house and the one next to it.  Holy cow.  They have set the bar high for Halloween!

 This is the other house.  He had an electric chair that buzzed and vibrated when you sat in it.  So crazy.

 He also had a  man in a noose (kinda creepy...ok, really creepy, but still cool.)  and a ghost that flew back and forth with bright red eyes.  This is the back of it.

 Here is Ryan getting his turn in the chair.  I think it kinda freaked Parker out a little bit.

 And finally, we ended up at Grandma's for a visit.  All the grandkids ended up getting there the same time, so we took advantage and got them all in a pic!  For how chaotic it was GETTING the pic, it turned out pretty good...at least no one is crying in this shot.

 And last but not least, Bryon knocks it out of the park once again.  So gross.  But so funny!  He kills me every year with the stuff he comes up with.

Now someone keep me away from all the candy!  Sick!  Good thing my teeth suck, and I can't really stand to eat too much sweet stuff any more.