Thanksgiving

 

Our Thanksgiving this year was spent with our Stitzer Family. My favorite part of the holiday is not eating the food but cooking it with my mom. I love all those childhood memories of cooking all morning with my mom in that brown and yellow kitchen. 

Boil, Boil, Toil & Trouble

This is pretty late, but I have to post about our Halloween anyways. London decided to be a witch this year. At first she wanted to be Fancy Nancy, but then after watching Hokus Pokus with Daddy she decided on a witch instead. She probably hit 50 homes when trick-or-treating! She wanted to just keep going and going and going. I had no idea she had it in her. We had about 47 trick-or-treaters to our home. It is a tradition in our family to count how many because my Grandma Donna always keeps record of how many. She usually has around 350 every year! So my grandma, mom, brother, and I all like to keep count.

 

For my birthday we went to iFly with my parents and Hugh. It was so much fun! I highly recommend it to anyone. London even did it. She kicked like crazy like she was swimming. We have it all on video which I am so thankful for. Matt decided to pay just a little extra to get the video and I thoroughly treasure it.

Ken got married last weekend! He has been waiting 42 years to find his wife and he finally is a married man. I am so happy for him. Merideth seems perfect for him and has made him the happiest that I have ever seen. Now he gets to enjoy life with a family of his own. 

Snag

 

My kitty lived to be 16 years old. He was amazing! I have so many childhood memories wrapped up with this black and white friend. He had the best life for a cat. He was an outdoor kitty that lived in a small town next to mountains full of creatures. I'm heartbroken that his last year was so hard on him. I'll miss him so much and am so grateful that he was mine.

London's Birthday Party

We had a bowling birthday party for London this year. It was a huge success. The highest requested gift from London was a piggy bank. Maybe she is taking after her Dad! Good with money, that would be awesome.

London's 4th birthday was hard on me. It was like it was my 30th birthday or something. I was so sad I already have a 4 year-old. How is that possible? I don't want her to be so big yet, but I love this age at the same time. If only we could pause her growing for a bit. I could keep her this little for a few years before going onto the next stage.

Aunt Tessa, London, and Uncle Cliff. Uncle Cliff likes little girl toys. Ha! Just kidding.

The October babies!

Have I mentioned that Matt has gotten a bowling ball? It is funny, most people we tell this to think it is really dorky. He is a sub for a bowling league and is pretty darn good at it. His ball smells like grapes. He also got bowling shoes and a bag to carry it all. He makes me laugh.

London and Hailey playing in the Autumn leaves.

Our 4 year-old