Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving weekend was once again, a packed weekend. But so wonderful. It was so wonderful to have a 4 day weekend... I could take that all the time! It was so great to get so much done and spend so much time with family.

We went to Roanoke for church on Thanksgiving day. We had lunch with the Leman's, (just Daniel's siblings), and it was great to have the whole gang together. Plus Grandma & Grandpa Knapp.

 Shiloh & Letty. Awhh they are so precious.

 Little Asher, Robert & Mary's little baby. He is soo precious, and I got to hold him a lot. :) Made my day!

Waiting for the feast: Jodi, Mary, Gabe, Robert, & Shiloh 

 After all of the dishes were done, it was game time!

 Daniel with (almost) all of his brothers

 Mom L holding little Asher.

At about 4 we made our way to my parents house to spend time with my immediate family. They were together the entire day, but we only made it for dinner obviously. :)

 Dinner in the dining room. I wonder how long this will last... I think the kids will quickly get put in the kitchen. :)

 Us :)

 We brought the game of Settlers out. I forgot how much that game stresses me out. Actually one of our new favorite games is Ticket to Ride....and I get SO stressed out about that one. I'm not sure why...

I crack up at this picture every time I see it. Carter had pneumonia and RSV, so he had to get breathing treatments and certainly was not a fan. It was a 2 person effort.

 Little dolly, so precious.

 I just absolutely love this photo. So so precious.

So that was our Thanksgiving day. Lots of food and family. So perfect, I wouldn't want to spend it any other way!

Friday Daniel had to work, so I pulled out the Christmas decorations I had, and also went shopping for more. :) I got a Christmas tree, second hand, which I was thrilled about! I'm not sure if Daniel was too thrilled about it however. :) It is a little large for our apartment, I'll just say that. :) I'll have to take a picture. :)

So Friday I spent the day trying to get my house organized and my tree up. But I did make time to go visit Ellie and baby Cyrus. Oh my word. SO precious.

 Cyrus Matthew

 Ellie & Cyrus

It was so good to go hang out with them for the morning. Ah, I think they need visitors! :)

Saturday was spent doing thank you notes. Yes, I'm STILL doing them. I think I have about 100 more to go! They will not end, I'm telling you! I will be so excited when they're done. Maybe my house won't get so neglected!

Saturday night we went hunting. We didn't see any deer, but we did see a beautiful sunset. The picture doesn't do it justice.

 We had a siblings night at Fred & Jodi's that night. We ordered pizza and played games. It was a lot of fun. And of course Letty was as cute as ever, and loved having people over!

Saturday night we stayed all night at my parents, and went to church with them on Sunday. Haha... yeah, that visit was a little belated. We hadn't both been in Washington since our wedding. Whoops. I sure hope we can do better in the future. Once Daniel doesn't have to work any more Sunday's it will be a lot easier to make it there and other places too.

Sunday was spent with my family, more games, and going out to eat in the evening. With Bridget & Carter....never a dull moment at the restaurant with them!

I'm so excited it's the Christmas season. I love it. I love everything about it, specifically listening to Christmas music at work everyday and sitting around at home with all of the greens/lights in our living room. Haha, Daniel told me he feels like he lives in a forest. :) Whoops. Maybe all of these decorations will look better once we're in a house and not an apartment. :)

Hope you all get your Christmas shopping done! I haven't started! :/

Packed Weekend

In October, we had an action packed weekend. I'm so thankful for the weekends though to spend time with family and friends that we don't see at all during the week.

Friday night was Carter's 1st birthday!! This little bud is a mommy's boy, and doesn't always like his aunts and uncles too well, but he's still such a sweetie!

He had a big sister who LOVED to "help" him with his gifts. Or do it for him. Bridget thought it was her birthday again! :)

 Carter got a play push mower which he was a little scared of. Or he just never got the chance discover it himself... :)

 Who needs a birthday party when you have your thumb? This little guy LOVES his thumb.

 Hyde made a darling cow cake

 He looks kind of terrified. :)

yumm... cake!

 But once again he just wants the thumb. :)

Saturday morning Daniel and I got up early and went hunting. This was the first time I had ever gone. My brothers have always tried to get me to go hunting, but I said I would if my husband did. So that's what I'm doing now. :) Of course I don't have a bow, but Daniel has a tree with two stands next to each other. I even brought my camera out with me. :) Sadly, we didn't see any deer, but it was good bonding time! :)

 Daniel with the sunrise in the background

Me. :)

After hunting we went to Fred & Jodi's until we went out for breakfast with them and Joe to Busy Corner. A perfect way to end a morning of hunting. 

  Daniel's brother Joe came back home from PA in mid-October and has been here since. It's been great to have him around!

After breakfast I spend the afternoon with Kendra walking and talking as much as we could in a few hours. :) That night we went to our first potluck cookout that Fred & Jodi hosted. Some young couples from Roanoke started a potluck, which I thought would be good so I could get to know some of the people I go to church with. :)

The hostess... Fred & Jodi. Or Frodi as we like to call them. :)

Little Letty, the only child in the group so far. So so precious. She finally acts like she knows me, and holds her arms out to me quite often! :)

Saturday night after potluck we spent the night at my parents house. Sunday we celebrated Uncle Ken and Aunt Sandy's 40th wedding anniversary, so we went to Eureka church with them and most of the Pfaffmann's. In the evening we went to Jared & Sarah's for dessert, had a slideshow of the last 40 years, and of course had some family time.

They had the whole cake and punch table set up and everything. Her daughters tried to do a replica of their wedding cake. This couple is SO so special to me! Everyone says I look like my Aunt Sandy. Whatcha think? :)

 Mom, Elise, Aunt Lily, and Jake & Janell's TWIN girls: Annie & Sophie. It's the 3rd set of twins on the Pfaff side of the family!

It was at Jared & Sarah's house

Us & my parents

Onto other weekend news... we went hunting again one Saturday morning. FYI, I've been out three times. :) In the evening Daniel & I babysat Bridget & Carter...and Luke came too.

Mr. Carter. He actually LOVED me that night! Probably because his parents weren't around. :)

Well that's all for now folks! Blessings!

Cyrus Matthew!

Remember THIS??

And this? Ellie's cute little baby bump at our wedding!

And this? Ellie's baby shower!

Well Ellie had her baby last Friday! Little Cyrus Matthew was born on November 2nd at 1:00pm. She was a little early, and he was 6 lbs. 13 oz.

I probably shouldn't have done this post since I only have pictures of him on my phone. But I will eventually get to meet this little guy in person instead of just picture texts, and post a few! Can't wait!! So excited one of my best friends had a baby!! :)

Congrats Troy & Ellie! :)

Birthday's

A couple weekends ago we helped celebrate some birthday's.

On Friday night it was Jenna's 21st birthday! We went out for Mexican, and she was even sung to with guitars and the whole bit by the Mexicans. :) Talk about embarrassing, and I know exactly where NOT to go for my birthday now! :)

Jenna and her friends...we all surprised her, she didn't know we were coming to help her celebrate! :)

The group of "kids" that were there all helping Jenna celebrate.
I know, Daniel isn't in the picture...that's because he was working, but he came over afterwards!

We went back to Jenna's house and hung out and had skillet cookies and ice cream.

Opening all of her presents like a Queen. :)

Love ya Jenna! So glad I was able to help celebrate and actually hang out with you!

Sunday we had all of Daniel's family over to the apartment for his mom's birthday. We were going to hang out on Grandview and just eat out there, but it was pretty rainy/stormy that day so we were forced inside. To say it was interesting and quite crowded is an understatement. :) Our kitchen table extends pretty well, but our kitchen doesn't exactly have the room for the big table. But we made it work. Robert & Mary weren't able to come... if they would have, I think we would've had to change locations. :)

We ate dinner in the crowded kitchen, and while we were just finishing up, the electricity went out. Hah. We decided to go to Grandview since we couldn't do much else in our apartment anyway. It was pretty chilly and windy, but it was still a gorgeous walk with the leaves.

We literally live 3 minutes away from Grandview. We go running/walking up there all the time. Pretty much anytime we do something like that.

Mom and a few of her boys

Elisabeth--she is the best! :)

Fred & Jodi & baby Letty

Mom and the kids that were able to be there to help celebrate.

I thought the electricity would be back on once we got back...but it wasn't. So we had ice cream and sat around in the dark and talked. And I lit my one candle I have. :) They all left by 7(although they came right after church) because we couldn't see anything. I felt really bad, but there wasn't much I could do.

(this picture was taken in the pitch black)

The electricity went back on about 10pm. I learned the next morning that it went off all because of a squirrel. Nice work squirrel. Thanks for ruining our birthday celebration. :)

Oh, and a side note... yes that is our kitchen walls, that mustard yellow. And I didn't paint it that color... it was that way when we came and we didn't repaint. :) Just wanted to clarify that! :)