A Belated Thanksgiving Post

I realize that Thanksgiving was over a week ago, but I'm just getting around to posting the pictures. We ate at my parents house, and as usual there were a zillion people, more food than we could ever have eaten, and little kids running everywhere. A good time was had by all!

The Jared Olson Family

It was a long, complicated process to get the turkey out of the oven, many experts were on the scene to give their expert opinions

Big Belly and Christian Zeal(She's due in 3 weeks!)

After dinner the kids busted out Great Great Grandma Bischoff's wheelchair, and they took turns pushing each other around. There were a few tantrums because Janette kept hogging it.

The boys loved their pie!

All Hallows Eve

We had a great Halloween! It started the day before, when we carved pumpkins. Bailee of course wanted a pirate pumpkin. After touching it the first time, she refused to go near the pumpkin goo, so I'm claiming this as my pumpkin since I did all the work. Too bad I didn't take a picture of the finished product!

On Halloween, we woke up and put our costumes on. I didn't get Bailee's costume done until the night before, and for weeks she has been begging me to "Hurry up and make it!". She spent the morning running around saying "Arrr give me money! Arrr give me candy!" and whacking Jackson on the head with her sword. We met Grandma Stevens for lunch, and then we were off to Gardener's Village to see their witch display. Bailee was excited for this all morning, and she and Jackson had a blast running around and looking at the different witches.



(He had little feet that went with his costume, but they kept falling off)


They had a petting zoo there, and the kids got to go on pony rides. Jackson especially was so excited, and was laughing the whole time.

Have you ever seen a gorilla riding a horse?

After that, it was off the Grandma and Grandpa's house for the traditional Halloween/Whitneys birthday dinner. Bailee was in heaven running around with her cousins. She went trick or treating with Madi and Abbi, and the three of them were racing each other to each house, trying to be the first to ring the doorbell. Needless to say, most doorbells got rang over and over since they could never agree on who would ring it, and Bailee always rang it several times. They all got lots of candy, and Bailee has been dumping it out and organizing it every day, and is eating it as we speak.

Madi, Bailee and Abbi

Jackson spent the whole night eating glowsticks-we probably should have fed him some food or something!

A Spooky Night

Last weekend we went with Carlee and Spencer to Hee Haw Farms, it's this cute little farm that had all sorts of Halloween activities going on. There were some cool slides, animals, a haunted barn, and a haunted hayride that was actually pretty scary. Jackson was getting soo excited about the animals, and Bailee kept going back to the haunted barn because she loved the "Harry Potter spiders"(the big spiders). There was this scary monster guy running around scaring people, but Bailee thought it was so funny and kept saying "Be nice silly monster" whenever he came near. The best part was the hayride where they take you all around this cornfield and there are monsters and scary people jumping out at you. It was really scary, and I was worried the kids were going to freak out, but Bailee kept laughing every time something happened, and Jackson fell asleep, so I guess it was ok. I think Spencer was having more fun than the kids

It's a Christmas Snow!

Something has happened that I both anticipate and dread every year. The first snow. I get so excited waiting, wondering when it's going to happen, because it means the beginning of the holiday season, drinking hot chocolate, making cookies, and driving around looking at Chrismas lights. I dread it because it means colds, coughs, sloshing through freezing water, and having frozen feet for the next 5 months.

On Saturday, we experienced the first real snow of the season. it started coming down around 4, and of course Bailee was so excited. She started yelling "It's a Christmas snow!" I didn't have the heart to tell her that Christmas is still 2 months away. She ran upstairs to get her little hat, and started putting her boots on. She of course was not dressed for the weather, but I let her go outside for a minute and run around in it until she started crying and saying "I'm too cold!" at which point I let her come back in the house. It snowed that night too, but luckily it has since melted, and we are promised warmer weather for the rest of the week.

Pumpkins

We haven't done anything too fun or exciting recently, which explains my lack of posts-we can't all be whisked away to New York on a moments notice like some people I know. Last night we took the kids to pick out pumpkins at the most exciting place on earth-the grocery store! It just goes to show how desperate I am for material that I took my camera along. I tried to take the pictures without anyone noticing, because it was a little embarassing to be snapping away in such a random place. I'm sure the other people there thought we were a strange family because we take pictures at the grocery store(we are a little weird)

Playing in their favorite thing about the grocery store-the carts!

Our lovely pumpkins. Bailee has the big one and Jackson has the smaller one