Our Holiday Service Project

This year we made cards to send overseas for the troops to help them celebrate the holiday season.  Harrison was so excited for this project.  Here are some of the cute things I saw him write to the troops:

"Dear Army Guy,..."
"Dear Mr. Soldier..."
"You Rock!"
"You're Awesome"
"Hope you get to see your family soon"
"Hope you have a GREAT Christmas"

If you want to send some holiday cards to the troops as well, I recommend the "Holiday Mail for Heroes" program ran through the American Red Cross. That make it very easy and offer some tips on what to write, and what not to write.  Here's the link to their website: Holiday Mail for Heroes

Favorite Holiday Song - Oh Holy Night performed by Josh Groban

Holiday "Oops" Moment!

So, have you ever left the bag of giblets inside the turkey while it roasted all day???? Because I did just that on Thursday!  James found the bag when he went to empty the cavity to carve the bird.  Thanks to Butterball's Turkey Hotline, we learned that if the bag is paper- then it's okay.  But if the bag is plastic and was melted or changed in any way, then you have to throw out the whole turkey!!  Luckily....our bag was paper-so no harm done!  Whew....I was wiping sweat off my brow...

Went. Saw. Loved. This...

Any one else switching to Team Jacob???

Halloween Catch Up

We had a very busy Halloween week here at our house.  First, I had my halloween costume and decoration contest at work.  Then had to hustle over to Harrison's school to put on the "Harvest Party" and then we went trunk or treating, followed by, of course, trick or treating in our neighborhood. 
The theme for this year's contest at work was "TV show"; you had to select a TV show, dress like a character and decorate your office like the show.  Here are a few of my co-workers:

 At Harrison's Harvest Party we did a few fun things: We decorated mini-pumpkins for the kids to take home, we decorated (and ate) sugar cookies and we had a scarecrow making contest.  The kids were suppose to take a bag full of supplies and build a scarecrow like this:

But then one of the boys got the idea that HE was the scarecrow and the contest turned into this:

And this:

Doesn't she look pregnant? They stuffed all the newspaper up into her belly and no where else. The kids had a blast! And then of course, it was Halloween and Harrison dressed up as .....(for the third year in a row....)

A ninja:

Here's the cookie and pumpkin portion of the Harvest party.  I'm already busy planning the next Holiday Party for the kids- there are 34 kids in his class and it gets crazy in there. He's teacher deserves a medal!

2nd Annual Apple Hill trip

Mom and Dad are in town for a few days for a visit before the holidays.  I'm so happy that they were able to visit us and we were able to do so many things.  We took a long drive up to North Lake Tahoe for the day and had a great lunch in the beautiful autumn leaves.  We celebrated Harrison's birthday, again, with pizza, arcade games, presents and brownies. And we took our 2nd Annual trip to Apple Hill and ate peach cobler, berry cobler, apple donuts, apple cider, carmels apples and fresh vanilla ice cream.  Somehow we managed to leave Apple Hill without eating any apple pie.  Can't wait to go back next year - delicious!

Just a few cute pics from this month!