The Week of Thanksgiving

Okay, you'll have to bear with me: this post is in reverse order because I STILL cannot figure out how to load these photos properly. Oh well, at least I'm getting these on here! We've had a BUSY week and weekend of Thanksgiving, that's for sure. Come along for the ride....

Marlo showing her big bro who is BOSS! :)

All the fun Christmas toys lined up, Ty just goes down the line and pushes the buttons again and again and again and again (you can guess how much Tom and I are LOVING these songs!) "I Waaaant Caaaandy!"

We headed down to Burger Farm to get our Christmas Tree again this year.

Here's Ty giving the cows some yummy hay...

And the cow thinking Ty's waving hand was a bit of food :)

Santa, Daddy and Ty

We hosted the Regan Family here for a Thanksgiving Dinner on Sunday...
Uncle D was quite the popular Uncle :)

Such a fun, quirky photo-love it!

Look at those 3 cuties...

Is Marlo begging for attention or what??

Look at our sweetie pie! She really does give us the most adorable, heart-warming looks :)

Daddy and kids spending some quality time reading a Christmas book.

Author's Note: There are so many things to take note of in this pic:

1. Matching jerseys(ies)-Go Bears.

2. Yellow glasses=do they make him look studious or what??
3. Marlo's smile :)

In case you needed a close-up of the sweet specs!

We braved the cold (and our kids' colds!) and went to the Opening Night of The Festival of Lights at The Zoo the day before Thanksgiving. A stranger took this photo-which explains the blurry quality!

Burger Farm did not have a tree this big for us, bummer.

Train ride...

Warm and snuggly...

Hi Daddy and Ty!

Tom INSISTED I take a picture of this snoozing bear to illustrate exactly how the Bears are playing this year...

Enjoying a mini light show!

We celebrated Thanksgiving day with the Versoza Family and Thanksgiving evening with the Holterman Family.

Here's Marlo's sweet place setting at Uncle Gary and Aunt Bobbie's...

I told Ty to pack up a "couple cars" to take with us. Apparently, "a couple" means about 50!

Love this pic :)

All of us and Papa-my dad.

Marlo and Great Aunt Mary!

Fun fun, I played around with Picasa and made this photo collage of our little crawler :) In yo' face :)

It's always an adventure here!

Wow- we've been super busy, and despite the fact that I have a brand new (very convenient!) laptop I haven't made the time to update our puny, little blog!

Marlo: "Hmm, what's this game you want to play with me Banks?"
Banks: "Throw the ball, throw the ball, throw the ball."
Marlo: "Would you look at that, Banks wants to share his toys with ME!"
Banks: "Throw the ball, throw the ball, throw the ball, throw the BALL..."

Ty made his very own playdough, and what started out as a nice ORANGE color, he decided to add some blue to it, and we got this lovely color!

Enjoying the cooler weather at Shaw Farm. Marlo loves the front seat ride :)

Ty taking a ride with a pumpkin head pal at Shaw Farm.

This is simply Ty being TY!

Ty and his best buddy Trent. Goofin' around, no doubt!

Annual pumpkin face picture!

Halloween 2009! Daddy & kids getting ready to get ready for TRICK or TREATING!

Ty giving Sissy Trick or Treating 101, and practicing with our stash of candy!

Organizing and sorting our candy to pass out, and later we found out that he had opened up and re-closed each pack of Rolos...???????? Crazy Ty!

Uncle Mike using Marlo as a prop in his costume. She did a pretty good job posing :)

Mommy and sweet Strawberry Girl Marlo :)

Our precious Trick or Treaters. Ty is READY to go, for sure. He kept this mask on ALL night, surprisingly!

Here's one of Marlo's favorite things: clapping (along with nodding her head "yes" and shaking her head "no"!)

Oh...and CRAWLING! There's no stopping her now!

I think I may have an identical picture of Ty and Banks doing this same thing at our old house...

Cousins-Marlo and Gunnar having a great time together ;)

Sissy getting into a bit of mischief!