Our little Angel

Mackenzie was the most precious angel as she sang on the Primary children's float in the Garner Christmas Parade. She enjoys singing SO much. She's always asking me to sing a song for her or turn on some Christmas music for her to listen to. She's becoming a good little singer. So sweet!

Go-Carting

PaPa outdid himself when he got this shiny yellow toy for the grandkids (or himself?). Regardless, the kids LOVE this new form of fun! Here, Aunt Camillia drives Mackenzie and her 4-year old cousin, Kalea.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving weekend: Caroline (age 7) and Mackenzie (age 4 1/2). Check out Mackenzie's artwork: she LOVES to color, just like her older siblings. They taught he how to stay inside the lines and everything. Cherre enjoys coloring too, hence the chalkboard art. We have much to be thankful for.

Campfire

We're putting the firepit Eric created to use: Sunday evening post-dinner hot chocolate & marshmallow roast. Caroline had 11 marshmallows... she LOVES roasted marshmallows! We talked about things we're grateful for and practiced singing our Thanksgiving Day song ("Thanksgiving day is coming and Mr. Turkey said, "How very careful I must be or I will lose my head." The pumkin heard the turkey and whispered, "Me Oh My! They'll mix me up with sugar & spice and I'll be pumpkin pie."": courtesy of PaPa Truelove). We like to make sweet potato bread for a neighbor or elderly couple and deliver it during the month of November and sing our cute song. It's fun having our own family traditions... the kids are really getting into it!

Jack-o-lantern

So... I told the kids to surprise me with their jack-o-lantern carving this year (supervised by dad). When they called me down, I really was surprised, as I had no clue what I was looking at. "Are you finished?" was all I could think to say. Scott was SO excited, as it was his idea... "A Cyclops!" So, we had a one-eyed jack-o-lantern this year. He's noseless too, which made it even harder for me to figure out their creation. At least they had fun, right? I got a real bargain on my pumpkin, so I'll pass along the find: we were running late this year so I didn't get the pumpkin until 2 days before. Sam's had all their large pumpkins marked down to $0.81
Lucky last-minute shopper. Unfortunately I had already picked one up at Logan's as it was marked 50% off and i thought that was a deal. But, now i know where/when to shop for a pumpkin. Happy carving!

Trick-OR-Treat

Trueloves in costume: Not that the girls are always angels, but Scott does LOVE to tease his sisters, so he had fun being a little devil on Halloween night. Other unforgetable events of Halloween 2008 include hanging purple bat lights on our front porch, watching Mackenzie tap dance to "Ghostbusters" song at dance class and having Aunt Crystal/Uncle Brad/baby Spencer over for dinner Halloween night: the kids decorated the table with plastic spiders, a snake trying to eat a rat and a centipede on Uncle Brad's seat! They also put things in everyone's dinner cup: a set of rotten teeth, a witch's finger, a spider, etc. We had so much fun. Uncle Brad and Aunt Crystal brought the kids a Halloween treat: store brand raisins! The kids didn't seem too disappointed, but were more excited when they found out the off-brand raisins were a joke: they actually made them treat bags with lots of good candy. Trick OR Treat!