Sunrise

Sometimes getting up early to take those kids to school has it's benefits...

Magician

The city hosted a magician at the Gale Center today. Sawyer and Hayden wanted me to check them out of school to see it, but I just took Josh. Josh thought this magician was so hilarious. I was laughing so hard just watching Josh laugh so hard!

Sinterklaas and Black Piet

Look who we ran into at the Dutch store! Sinterklaas and Black Piet were visiting to our surprise! They gave me a dollar coin and McKinley got a candy cane.

Feast with the Beasts

We delivered our giant pumpkins to the zoo again this year. On Thanksgiving we got to watch the cute elephants stomp, smash and munch on the pumpkins. It was chilly though.

Later that afternoon we ate Thanksgiving dinner in Herriman with the Taggart clan. 

Terrific adventures

It has been Josh's week to take care of Terrific Tiger from preschool. They get to have all sorts of adventures together. Then Josh draws a picture of their adventures in the booklet and Terrific Tiger gets to go back to have more adventures with other kids.

He also made this cute little "native" costume at preschool for Thanksgiving. Nothing cuter!

It snowed!

This kid was so excited for the dusting of snow he saw when he woke up. He went right out and got to work shoveling the back porch. And loved every minute!

Hagrid's Hut

The kids talked me into entering a gingerbread in the 'family' category. We procrastinated way too long and got this entered in at the 11th hour! Hagrid's hut was pretty fun, but we need more time. And for some reason the fondant turned purplish when dyed with black food coloring. Next year they want to do Hogwarts castle! Yikes!

***Update- Miracle of miracles, we won first place in the family category! We won $100!!! 

The day after

Apparently this is what you have for breakfast the day after Halloween. Breakfast of champs!