Fall Crafts 2

We finished out the fall with some fun crafts that I wanted to post just so I remember them.  They have been thrown away and we're filling up the house with Christmas crafts!

Made this poster together after reading the book

Masks.  Not so much fall but cute:)

Hibernating bears

Tennis ball turkeys

Hand wreath of most of the visitors we had before
Thanksgiving - I did most of the work on this one:)

After reading "Pumpkin Jack" we made this poster

Thankful leaf banner - just cute but not really a craft

Frozen: First Movie

Last week Matt took Friday off work since he was going to California this week for work.  So we decided to spend the morning going to the movie Frozen and out to lunch.  This was the first time that either kid has been to a movie at the theater and the first time I've been since I was pregnant with Grace. So it was a treat for all.  We also were able to go to a newly remodeled theater that was really nice.

Anyway, since we went on Friday at 10 am there were only 8 people total in the theater which was great!  A couple of the previews were a little scary but the movie was perfect for the kids.  Caleb made it until about the last 15 minutes and started to get antsy.  Enter in Dum-Dums:)  That held him over to the end.  Now ever since seeing the movie we've been listening to the soundtrack on Spotify and watching whatever clips we can find on You Tube.

Parade of Lights

One nice thing about hosting Thanksgiving is we were actually home for the whole weekend!  That has never happened.  So, we were able to attend our town's Parade of Lights on Saturday night after Thanksgiving.  It wasn't bitterly cold so we actually enjoyed our time outside minus the moment I stepped in dog poop.  YUCK!  The kids loved the parade and at the end we got to watch the big tree light up.

Thanksgiving

We had a super great Thanksgiving this year and were able to host Matt's family for the main event.  Over the course of the weekend we had people here from Wednesday afternoon until Saturday morning.  I love having visitors so I was enjoying it a ton.  But because I had a big meal to prepare and lots of other meals I had to be really organized (ahh in my element).

Grace and Caleb loved having their cousins visit for over 24 hours and then on Friday both set of grandparents were here for the day.  They almost didn't know what to do with that!  We just spent a lot of time hanging out, watching the Packers loose, and of course eating.  

Menu and to-do list 

Grace and Jenna ready to play outside

Girl cousins ready for the Packer game 

Boys ready for Packer game

Place setting and place cards made by Grace

Appetizer lunch spread during football game 

Adult table

Kid table

Carving the bird 

Time to eat!

Illini Game

I've been totally neglecting the blog lately.  My biggest motivation for blogging is so I remember these years.  I am already forgetting what we've been up to the last month but you can expect a couple of posts this weekend.

Back to the point of this post.  A few weeks ago we got to take the kids to an Illini football game.  Some friends of ours have season tickets that they gave to us.  The weather was great (upper 50's) and although the team is not great it was fun to watch.  We sat right in the front row of the visitors section (Ohio State) and they are very good.  So the kids enjoyed watching the cheerleaders and rooting for the away team.  Honestly most of the time I think they yelled, "Go Packers!"  We had to leave just before halftime because Caleb was going a little crazy sitting and he didn't understand why he couldn't go play football.  I brought along Dum-Dums and wished I would have brought along more but that helped us last almost until halftime.

Cheese:)

Cheerleaders

I love this picture of the kids playing in the leaves after we left!