Thankful today

My dad has a print of this painting hanging up in his house for as long as I can remember. He treasures it and often tells us how much it means to him. He says the man reminds him of his grandfather (I think he died sometime in the 70's) and what a wonderful example he was of gratitude. The old man seems to have a simple life, but you can see the sincerity of his prayer of thanks. On Thanksgiving day when I was a kid my dad would always say the prayer and it was so long! I remember thinking can he just be done already! Then before anyone could eat we had to go around the table to say what we were thankful for. He always talks about his painting and his Opa (grandfather). That part is ingrained in my head now and I go through in my mind what I am thankful for with my dad's voice saying  "You've got to say a good one, don't just say 'everything' or dumb things like 'toys'."

This morning I am thankful for the progress that Boyd has made. He woke up happy and got himself dressed, ate his breakfast, and brushed his teeth without getting upset about anything. That is such a big deal to me because I used to think maybe he would never be able to do simple things like getting ready for the day without both of us in tears.
I am thankful that Lucy woke up happy and completely entertained her little sister, played with her and was so excited to be with her and help her with everything. She is such a great sister and I love to see her playing the "mother hen" role, it reminds me of my big sister.
I am thankful for my Daisy this morning she climbed up on my lap and just sat and snuggled with me with her blankey and every once in a while strokes my hair or arm. She's got such a unique personality with a lot of sweetness and a streak of spunk that makes me laugh.

What are you thankful for today?

Gratitude

I love this song and I love to listen to it around Thanksgiving time. It's a good reminder for me to keep life simple and to be grateful for all I have. So many simple gifts all around, it's almost overwhelming to think about.
I am so grateful for my sweet family, my wonderful husband and my 3 amazing kids. I have a hard time time expressing my gratitude to people because I'm so shy and worry about sounding like an insincere doofus. It's really hard, but I am trying to be better about this.

Sad

My camera is broken :(
I couldn't take pictures of my cute Trick or Treaters or the cute decorations Boyd and Lucy made.
It is so cold.
The End.

Halloween pictures

Jenna took these, of course, because they are super awesome. Too bad Boyd wasn't in the mood, but the girls were great posers.

This one is my favorite of Lucy with the light behind her.

He would not smile for anything. It would have been funny to video me making a fool of myself trying to get him to smile, little goober, it never works for him!

Oh I love this Daisy face, she's such a princess!

The beautiful girls

Pumpkins

Saturday was the perfect day for carving pumpkins outside. Boyd sort of helped carve his, but he was too nervous for using a knife and didn't want pumpkin guts to touch him.

Mia and Owen were very serious about this 

Daisy just liked hanging around watching everyone. Lucy drew her picture of what she wanted for me to carve.

Boyd wanted the biggest one with a kitty face.

That was mine. I left the eye guts on purpose!

The one on top of the white one is Daisy's that Ken made for her.

Mia's had braces with a broken knife blade.

Daisy enjoying the nice fall weather last night.

Halloween Party

Sort of a lame picture, I know, but we got one taken at Ken's boss' Halloween Party tonight. Too bad we didn't get a full body picture of the two of us to show off our awesome costumes... there's always next year I suppose.
I didn't take very many pictures with our camera either.

They have the coolest decorations for this party. There was even a real girl in a mermaid costume swimming in the pool all night. There were security guards at the party tonight, I think for the special guests there.

It's Uncle Rico! 

Terrible picture, but it's Flava Flav in the red sweatshirt. He just took off his costume covering his face. We didn't want to crowd around to get a picture taken with him.

Cute Costumes and Crazy hair!

Sometimes I can't get these pictures to turn the right way. The girls had a little Halloween party today and got to wear their costumes. Lucy threw a fit about wearing a white shirt and so she tried it without and that dress sure is low. So for now I'll have to pin it because I don't know how to tighten it any more than I did already.

Lucy had Crazy hair day at school today and this is what we came up with. She thought it was pretty silly. It reminds me of Cindy Loo Who.
I have been crafting like crazy lately... and too bad I can't show my pictures yet because they might turn into some Christmas presents.