Thanksgiving Fun!

We enjoyed spending Thanksgiving with our niece, Camille, and her fiance, Aaron, along with my cousin James and his cute wife Amy and their darling three kids. It was a wonderful day.

All All ready for our guests! I meant to take a picture with everyone at the table but I forgot!


Spencer and Tyler play together after dinner


Levi enjoys running around the house with the other kids


Courtney dishes up her dessert!


Amy samples some pumpkin pie


James joins the other men in their annual Thanksgiving ritual: watching football games after the big meal.

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Paul adds color commentary to the football game.


Camille and Aaron--the cute couple soon to be married!


Check out the size of Courtney's fork! She must really love the pie!



Rachel and Emma relax after dinner.

Breathing a sigh of relief. . .

Friday, I went to Spencer's first grade parent teacher conference. Honestly, I was a little nervous. After all, Spencer is the only boy in our family and has A LOT of energy and has often come home from school unhappy because school was soooooooooooooo long. Therefore, I wondered how he was behaving and how he was doing academically. Guess what? Just like in kindergarten, he received rave reviews! He scored the best marks in all the behavioral categories and is performing well in all his academic pursuits. The teachers (the substitute he had for the first 2 1/2 months of school and his real teacher) had nothing but good things to say to me about him. Whew! What a relief! I'm very pleased with my little man.

Soccer Tournament

On Saturday, Rachel's soccer team began their final tournament of the season. It was a cold but sunny day and they played very well. They defeated Nazareth 3-0 and then played Moore Township and tied 1-1. I was hoping Rachel would score a goal in her final game of the season and she did! Her team continued in the tournament on Sunday (without Rachel--our family doesn't play on Sunday) and they placed 3rd. I thoroughly enjoyed spending the day on the field. Rachel's done a terrific job this season. She is a talented soccer player and we're proud of her and her accomplishments in the sport. But if you think Rachel's sporting days are over, think again! She started basketball practices on Monday. Here we go again!

Rachel and her friend, Nicole

The triumphant team walks off the field to a standing ovation from the parents

Rachel just kicked that ball (This was zoomed 48x) Sorry about the bluriness.

Running to get the ball!

Fall Fun

So these first three pictures are cell phone pictures (thus poor quality) but you can see how much fun my kids have playing in the leaves. In our township, everyone rakes their leaves to the street and then township employees come around with a giant vacuum thingy and suck them up. Then they make mulch out of it. The awesome thing is that the mulch is free to township residents!