New Family Portraits

Every year around this time we get new photos done of the family for Christmas cards. While I wasn't overly fond of the girl who took out pictures she did manage to get one nice shot of each of the boys, and a nice family one. I also took some pictures before we left seeing as we were all dressed up for pictures anyway!

Atkinson tree lighting

Last night we went to the Atkinson tree lighting, along with Brian's parents, grandmother and sister. The choir led Christmas carols and santa arrived to see the kids. the boys had fun, and Brady even sat on santa's lap. I Love this time of year!

Christmas came early!

Okay, okay so we know it's early but Brady has been dying to put the christmas tree up and well, so have I. So instead of waiting until next Friday we decided to do it today. Brady had such a good time putting all the ornaments on, Cameron put some on but was more fascinated with the lights and all. My favorite time of the year is HERE!!!

An Early Thanksgiving Dinner

With thanksgiving coming up we decided to have our own Thanksgiving dinner for the daycare kids. Okay so we didn't cook a turkey for them, they had chicken nuggets, but we did make stuffing, mashed potatoes, squash and cranberry sauce. Of course most of the kids didn't really touch the sides and only ate the chicken nuggets but atleast they were exposed to some othe food before Thanksgiving and maybe they'll try it on Thanksgiving. We had fun and so did the kids and that's all that really counts right?

Our New "Breakfast Nook"

I just finished a weekend project - I made a "breakfast nook" by taking out the wall between our kitchen and living room. You can see the before and after pictures below. Note that the original "before" pictures were taken in 2007 when I cut a hole in the wall to add a window. Then I took the window out to take down the whole wall to create the breakfast bar.

Baby # 3!

This is our (official) web-nouncement that Baby Stack #3 is on the way. Erica is due June 4th, 2010.

Trick or Treat

The boys had a fabulous time Trick or Treating, We were able to go to so many more houses this year! The boys went as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger. Shanna and Dave joined us with Mackenzie and the Wicks' joined us with David and Sean. A fun night had by all.

Fall Is Here

We all love the fall weather. We've been raking and jumping in the leaves and most recently went to the pumpkin lighting festivle at the town hall. Brady got to get his face painted and they danced to the music and got to see all the carved pumpkins. I really love living in a small town, It's so nice to go to things and know lots of people, brady even saw some of his friends from his class.