Thanksgiving!!!

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We had such a nice Thanksgiving at my parents house:) We left late Tuesday night and returned home late Friday night so we had a fun few days!!! Kelly and Chris were there along with us and my parents while DJ went to Vegas to spend Turkey Day with Kerry and Jeremy, so it was a small celebration compared to the usual chaos!!! I was bound and determined to get my people dressed nicely and take a new family picture this week:) The one above our fireplace currently has Luke at the age of six weeks so we are in dire need of a new one! Getting my clan to sit still at a studio isn't really realistic as we don't seem to grasp what public scenes are, let alone care so I went for the outside, casual plan! Go figure...the ones that turned out the best are the ones where we are up and moving! My three bozos just can't get the ants out of their pants when sitting so I guess we'll make do with what we got:)

Coming to you LIVE once they can go outside alone...

So apparently we are a family of all traits! My boys have various occupations these days ranging from superheroes protecting Mom, cops locking each other in jail to the loft rails, garbage men hauling "trash" all over the house in giant trucks, chefs "assisting" me in the kitchen, one man wrecking crews that can destroy a room in under 20 seconds to my new personal favorite...a rockband! I was in the kitchen this afternoon when I got called upstairs for "a concert" and was told to bring my camera! I couldn't resist this so I headed up for the big show:) What a show it was!!! I had to post a few minutes of it for everyone else's pleasure as this was just too good to keep to myself!!! Between Brian's voice to Matt's dancing feet...watch out Jonas Brothers!!!

Brian's Academic Awards and a Super Fun Saturday!!!

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Craig and I are SO proud of how well Brian is doing in Kindergarten:) He is now reading...(and by this I mean actually reading Dr. Suess books to his brothers!!!), loves math (he counted to 1000 by tens the other day with Aunt Key!!!) and overall really enjoys school:) Brian was awarded at the school awards assembly for his accomplishments (he has achieved end of kindergarten performance level) in math and reading this past week and we couldn't be prouder! His school gives the kids "dogtags" rather than paper certificates so the kids have something they can proudly wear and show-off!

We also had a super fun family day today hiking with the kids at Georgetown Lake and letting the dogs go for a swim. It was 75 degrees and beautiful outside which made it all the more fun! The boys were in all their glory throwing rocks and sticks, as well as the balls for the dogs:) We topped off our fun in the backyard for a good few hours bathing the dogs, goofing around with Daddy and having fun on the swings:)