Gingerbread houses...sort of :-)

On Sunday, we went to the Davenport Hotel downtown and looked at their amazing gingerbread houses.  The theme this year was Disney, I believe, and there were some crazy ones.  The rule is that everything you see has to be edible...to someone anyways :-)  it was a lot of fun, though we missed them working on them by like 5 seconds..the finishing bell had just rung when we walked in..maybe next year we will go a little earlier.

Pirate ship

Winnie the Pooh

Ian and Megan enjoying the sights

Aladdin's castle

Tiki hut..yes those are shredded wheat

Cinderella's castle

Megan doing her first decorating of our charlie brown christmas tree :-)

Merry Christmas!!

Memories

Making Christmas light memories with Daddy!

She is always so helpful and happy, despite it being dark and cold out there!

Her new favorite pastime, playing under her blanket :-) The walking under the blanket gets a little dangerous!

Decorating an ornament that she got in Sunday School, very serious about it :-)

Advent

Finished product of our new advent calendar! Thanks Aunt Shirley for your wonderful craft stuff and Bethany for helping make it look...whimsical?? :-)

Megan LOVES taking the box down to get the candy and so far has listened really well to the advent story! Thanks Mom, for sending it in square form!

But...this is the favorite of the season, she has spent more time taking off and putting on these window stickers than I have ever seen her do anything else!!  Can you think of a place to get year around ones??

Thankgiving and snow

Sipping hot chocolate while watching Ian fly his airplane on ski's

Selah, Essie, and Megan ready to compete in sledding :-)

Wait..wrong way....

...little speed demon...

Practicing for snow racing with Joel....sorry about the face plant :-)

Papa teaching on snow ball fighting

Professionals

Essie and Megan off to see the ducks..can they get any cuter than that??

Learning how to collect eggs...sorry about the broken ones :-)

Annual axe throwing contest

Craft time with  Mima

Trying out the Kerrigan sledding hill

Fall into Winter

Big helper when it comes to raking and putting away the leaves!

All done!

Getting in the mood for winter with a movie with the cousins

Some yummy holiday snacks!

First real snow experience!

Helping to shovel the driveway :-)

Figured out she could eat the snow...

So happy to be outside in it all!

Happy Winter!

Pumpkins...just like everyone else :-)

Searching for the perfect pumpkin at green bluff..this particular was too heavy for her, but I missed the picture of her falling over with it!

Perfect!

She enjoyed playing in the dirt more than anything!

helping push the pumpkins!

Tractor ride!

Cleaning out the pumpkin with Papa!

Carving with Daddyd

Washing seeds with Mima

Good night pumpkin!

Under the table fun :-)

seasons change...

As the seasons change here we come into the time of heavy jackets....

....and lady bug galoshes....

...and indoor playtime with new (old) dolls and beds :-)...

..wait..who said this bed was just for dolls???  I fit too!

..and, of course, our first jump into a pile of leaves..

last of all...helping turn off the sprinklers...yes, winter is coming!