Pre-Thanksgiving Day Festivities

We stopped by Jer's parents house before Thanksgiving and had a great time. We had an early Thanksgiving feast and played some rowdy games.

Luke and Bree lovin on Makayla.

Bree could not get enough of baby Conner.

Bree, Conner, Kaylee and Dillyn

Luke trying to pick up Dillyn.

We spent the afternoon at the observatory.

Note the Hollywood sign in the background. Such tourists!

Makayla has the best crazy face of all!

In the basement.

Jupiter is shining right through my face.

Jake just finished doing a space project at school, so this was especially fun for him.

Jake and Tyler discuss if Pluto is really a planet...

We strike a pose in front of the beautiful LA smog, I mean skyline!

Twinners

Triplets. We didn't even plan it.

Luke and Kaylee rock out on the stairs.

The amazing Jaimee with her 3 adorable kiddos!

So lucky to have such a fun and wonderful fam!! We love you guys!

Vampires

New Moon. 5 fine ladies squeeze into Heidi's super hot (& tiny) red Fit. Heidi laughing her head off as the vampire rips the other vampire's head off. Paige and her kiddie treat. A man yelling random comments about loud laughing and showing someone the exit. (Pretty sure he wasn't talking about us). And then the daughter and her mom...well we better not even go there.

Sarah, so glad you solved the "when can we fit this in" problem! Completely genius!

Zoo

Luke meets the dragon.
The kids watching the elephant's grand entrance.

Stopping for a bite to eat. Sarah and Paige are missing because Paige became deathly ill and Sarah took her to meet Justin.
Zoo just wasn't the same w/o them!

The tree fort has to be the best spot at the zoo.

Ahhh dirt!

Tate-a-riffic

It was Tate's birthday, so we partied with him at the Train Park,

which I think may be the coolest park ever!
Happy 6th, Tate!

Breanna loves Lydia!

I'm thinkin we've found a new spot for future birthdays. What a cool place!

Veteran's Day

Sarah and Georgia

Lovin those moon boots, James!

a little white trash

Scoutin out treasures.


So adorable.
Ava is gently nudging Luke to remind him that the driver's seat is her spot.
It seems like just yesterday when we were out at this same place and Ava was just tiny and sitting in her bouncy seat and Luke was loving on her.


Luke LOVED riding!


Except when it wasn't his turn.

Take me! Take me!

Now that's more like it!

I loved how he just snuggled back into our bellys as we drove him around.

Heaven.

Sarah made the most divine oatmeal cookies which made the kids so happy (me too!)

Love Macie's lollipop!

Georgia and Macie were sooo nice to let Jake and Bree ride as much as they wanted.

And they always let them drive. Such sweet girls!

We are so lucky to have such awesome friends!!

This is actually the day before at the school's Veteran's Day Assembly. Jake and Bree both sang in it. Jake's friend, Jordan, sang the most amazing solo. He did an incredible job. It was a great tribute to all our veterans.

Check out Jake's angry scowl. He said it was because he had to sit by girls.

Oh theTorture!

The Improv

Before the show, we stopped off for a yummy dinner and I asked one of the workers to take our pic. I don't think she was too happy about it because she pointed the camera straight at the brick wall behind us. And, she cut out these two:

I would've photoshopped them in, but that's just not one of my talents.

They are one cute couple though eh!

Free candy (thanks to James' fancy phone), good laughs and great friends!

Tasty Toes, Luke's New Woman and Lemon Showers

Breanna came home from school today and she asked me what the best part of my day was. So I showed her this: We took a little roadie to do some shopping and turned back to see Luke with a mouthful of toes. Who would've thought toe jam could be so yummy???
Luke grabbed Nikki's hand and chatted her ear off all the way to the elevator. Lookin pretty flirtatious to me....Patrick better hurry home.

Luke was completely out of control at lunch. He grabbed the lemons off the salsa bar and thought it was awesome to watch the water splatter all over Nikki and Carter when he threw them in his plate of water. Nikki laughing out loud did not exactly help the situation. I think the good people at Rubios were about to show us to the door. Good thing the other children were behaving like perfect angels!

Veteran's Day Parade

Sweet group of parade onlookers.

(I had to steal this pic from Jamie because Jeromy thought my camera would be put to better use on the float- hmph!)

Jake and Jake F.


Jake walked the entire 1.6 mile route carrying this banner with his fellow Webelos.






I think our scouts had the best float in the whole parade. And it's not just because their only competition was garabage trucks and RVs.
We loved the parade!