Dirt Cake!

As if we hadn't eaten enough yummy food, Mema just HAD to make dirt cake for Isaac on Friday after Thanksgiving. He LOVED the worms!!

Such a helper!

Kaylee loved it too

" They're not real worms, we don't eat the worms outside"
Thanks Isaac, glad you know the difference

I promised Matt I wouldn't post this picture.... I lied

Thanksgiving 2007

Psalm 136:26: "Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever."

Yesterday was a great day to celebrate with family and to remember the many things we have to be thankful for.

We enjoyed a special day with Mema and Bepa; we are thankful for them, and thankful that they made the long drive out to Maine to spend the weekend with us!

Kaylee loves giving hugs! (so does Mema)

Bepa was in charge of turkey quality control

Let's eat!

"More sparkly please" (sparkling white grape juice that is)

" Mashed potatoes are my favorite!"

Mine too!

Happy Thanksgiving Uncle Jon, Aunt Jodi, Nathan & Katie!

Happy Thanksgiving Dutchie!


And now for the clean up...

Basement Update Update

29 (out of 30) sheets of 12 foot sheet rock resting nicely in the basement. Matt and I hauled it all in on Tuesday night. It took a couple of hours (with an icecream break and some timeouts to watch the Michigan State game) We finished around 11:00 p.m. Let me tell you, it was no easy task. After we cracked the first sheet it half we thought there was no way we could get this stuff into the basement, but we figured it out, there it is, ready to be hung.

Sidenote: if you are ever carrying sheet rock I do not reccommend resting it on your thigh; that it was I was doing and the next day I noticed my upper leg was all black and blue...

I figure I will be able to use this for several years if I ever want Matt to do something for me. "Honey, do you remember that night I helped you with that dyrwall...."

Basement Update

Slow and steady...progress is being made in the basement.

We just had a load of sheet rock delivered this morning- Isaac was sooo excited. They drove the forklift around the side of the house to drop it off near the basement door. When we came back inside Isaac was loading up his trailer and dropping off pretend fruit snacks to various locations in the bonus room. Pretty cute...

The basement is completely framed now

All the electrical is done and Matt passed the inspection with flying colors!

Time to put up the insulation

more framing... soffits...

it looks like a room,, sort of...

LL Bean wicked good scuffs, and you thought they were only good for lounging around in...

Matt's little "helper"

Saturday's project- installing the lights next to the stairs





More updates soon (hopefully!)

Isaac's quote of they day

(Referring to a stuffed animal) "I think we will need to share this, but I will call it mine." (By the way, the stuffed animal in question is one that Matt bought for Kaylee when he was in
Albuquerque)

How many days until Christmas?

check this out: http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/xmas_cnt.htm

Who's counting?

Isaac is....

He knows he will be getting lots of toys (his words) at Christmas. We were talking about it yesterday and I said, yes, you will be getting some presents because Christmas is when we are celebrating Jesus' birthday. He said, yeah, but I will be getting lots of toys.

It's kind of cute and kind of worrisome all at the same time..

A Very Mickey and Minnie Halloween

Matt and the mice walk to the parade.

Minnie and the glow stick

Mickey loves Tiggers (Alexa)

The group photo, or at least most of the group...

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We also continued in our traditional pumpkin carving to match the costume event. It mostly consisted of Matt carving two pretty cool looking pumpkins while the kids played.

Isaac was upset because he couldn't find his pumpkin...

Ahh, Isaac it's the big orange one.. (he wouldn't believe us, he said that was daddy's, but he did agree to share it with Matt)

Let the carving begin!
markers are safer than knives..

2 hours later...


They looked really cool for 2 days and then Dutch took a big bite out of Mickey's face. Matt put it back together with toothpicks, but Mickey was never quite the same...

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