Thanksgiving

I'm going to post about Thanksgiving but change my wallpaper to a Christmas theme. I can't help it...it's allowed after Thanksgiving and I love Christmas.

What a week we had! Melissa and Mark came and we wanted them to have a great time and ended up getting both of them sick. :( We're sorry! Or I'm sorry, since I was sick first. So Thanksgiving Day was marred for them by a nasty bug but hopefully the week made up for it, a little. My parents and sister Shauna came for Thanksgiving Day and we loved having our family in our home to share this Holiday. Thank you for visiting us it really makes us all so happy.

Melissa took all of these beautiful pictures of the kids and since that's what this blog is all about I'm going to post lots of them. (lots of Catherine because 9 month olds are very picture worthy)

standing up on her own!

Facetime (video chatting) with David, Dan, Myra and family.

her "tail" as Wes calls it

Halloween!

The most beautiful Snow White there ever was,
and the most handsome and fierce Dragon Slayer that ever will be!

We had a nice time trick-or-treating. Catherine only visited a few houses before her sweet daddy took her home to get out of the cold.

Weston whispered "trick or treat" at each house because he is still a very shy boy, but on leaving he would yell "now let's get more candy!" very loudly before most people had shut their door. He talked incessantly about the two pieces of candy he was going to pick to eat when he got home, and ate them very joyfully on the couch. He even reminded me that he could eat two more tomorrow as I was tucking him into bed.

We went to a party on Friday night, and even Scott and I dressed up.
I was an Angel (fitting, I know), and Scott was a terrific Tony Stark.

These are some of the children of law school students - they are all so cute.

Townhouse Pictures

Here is our current home in Champaign. Sorry there are lots, but I want you to get the full experience. How about you just come visit us and see where we live for yourself.

baby girls are fun to take pictures of

I have been eager to take pictures of both my kids together, but Scott is seldom home during daylight so instead of waiting months for the perfect time I did it myself just to see. I thought it was a bust, that I had no good pictures, but I see there are in fact some cute ones. My favorites are of the kids laughing together. It was difficult to get them to behave :)

On second thought, these are not of the kids laughing together,

but rather Wes laughing at Cate using him as a teether.

If family would like any pictures from the blog let me know and I can email you the original file.