Happy Thanksgiving!!!  We had a wonderful day of thanks!  We ate turkey and all the trimming at the Barlows.

Our preschool pilgrim

Turkey trot cheerleaders staying warm in the car

Turkey trot runners (Tim, Mike and Mandy)

Runners giving cheerleaders big waves

 More Thanksgiving weekend details coming

This week

(This post is a few weeks old. I haven't been able to post it because I ran out of photo storage.  All tech support items have been taken care of and we are back posting on the blog)

So many fun things going on this week!

Carter receiving awards at Cub Scouts

Annie and I cooking up something yummy

It is getting chilly out and everyone has their boots on

And long sleeve shirts

And really big jackets

And dreaming of skiing

Lunch date with Peanut

Somebody lost her first tooth and got a $1 from the tooth fairy

Lunch date with Abby

The Youngest

These two have become good buddies lately.  Peachy as been sticking to Carter like glue.  And being the good guy that he is...he treats her just the way a big brother should!

After a big snow storm, Georgia wanted to go sledding and Carter  told her that he would take her on the backyard hill. He even let her wear his favorite hat.

She likes to get cozy with her big brother when they watch a movie.

Georgia had crawled into Carter's bed one night.  Very cute!

A Road Trip

During fall break, we took a little road trip to northern California.  I sure like it there.  Especially, seeing the deer while I was out running (I should say walk/run).

Hmmmmm....too much TV

After seeing the circus acts at the Circus Circus Hotel, ALL of our kids declared they wanted to be in the circus.  Tim was thrilled!

So excited to be at the hotel!

A pit stop in Lake Tahoe....we sure like that place!

And we sure like Red Boxes!

Lovin' some In N Out Burger

Halloween

Even though I was the Halloween grinch, we had a wonderful Halloween.  Trying to find four costumes puts me over the edge...hence the grinchiness!

Trip to Gardner Village to see the witches

Annual decorate pumpkin sugar cookies

Getting ready to carve the pumpkins we grew in our garden

Mmmmmm....pumpkin guts

Georgia - Butterfly; Annie - Ladybug; Abby - Batgirl; Carter - Captain American

This is a really bad and fuzzy picture, but Carter's costume was WAY TOO short on him.  It came to just below his knees

Tuesday Night Lights

As we watched Carter play flag football, this was our beautiful background.  Yep...pretty darn ugly :)

Carter has been a really great job this year with his flag football team.  Definitely better than last year!  He has even made a few touchdown.

But we aren't banking on his awesome football skills....definitely gonna get that college education :)

When your 5 in an 8 year old world

This sweet muffin....

....hasn't been so sweet.  In fact, she had a very difficult summer.  Unfortunately, her older siblings had a lot of great stuff going on.  Birthday.  Baptism.  More birthday celebration.  Running stuff.

And someone was feeling neglected.

And became naughty.

And Mom and Dad didn't know what to do with their "SO SWEET" Peachy.

None of the tricks we used on the big kids worked.  Now what.

There were several days when all she had in her room was her bed and dresser.  All her toys, books, stuff had been put into timeout.  We didn't know what to do.

A neighbor and very good friend gave me a wise piece of advice.  "Love them when they least deserve to be loved". 

Right at that time, the big kids went back to school and our Peachy was inundated love.  More love than she could handle.  And she earned all her toys and books back.  She filled up her "Happy Chart" with stickers and earned a trip to Chuck E Cheese.

Our Peachy is back.  We missed her.

And Mom and Dad learned a very valuable lesson about love.