Riley turns 4!!! And Happy Turkey Day too!

Riley Jane is now 4!! Can you believe it? We had a blast celebrating her birthday the week before Thanksgiving, we celebrated with a Dora and Diego birthday bash with her friends and family. We all had a blast playing musical chairs to Dora Fiesta music and playing Swiper bowling. The kids got to turn into Princess Dora and Prince Diego and help save the Kingdom!! We had a great time, check out the cupcakes I slaved over the night before! I thought they turned out pretty good. Thanks Nick Jr.com for all the party planning ideas and fun printouts for the kids :) And a big thank you to all our friends and family for making it such a great birthday!!A week after Riley's birthday Thanksgiving rolled in, time for turkey, yummy! Our first celebration was at Riley's preschool where moms and dads were invited to share a Thanksgiving feast. It was so much fun and we even got to watch a fun performance from each class including a funny turkey dance from Riley's class. As soon as I figure out how to post it, you might get to see it :) We had great fun at David's dad's for a Hawkeye thanksgiving celebration and then rolled on to Mom's for round two of turkey! There our turkey note war commenced with the Westminster clan, taken up where we left off from last year of course, and even they have to admit we annihilated them :) They got hammered with turkey note texts left and right, we still love you though:) Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!! We are definitely looking forward to the rest of the Holiday season!

More Halloween and Fun Fall Pics!!

I promised a few people I would post some more pics, so here goes. Halloween was great despite the 30mph wind gusts, the girls had a blast trick or treating and passing out candy to the last few stragglers that showed up at the end of trick or treat. We have been up way too late the last few nights with halloween fun, trick or treat, carving pumpkings, making halloween cookies, parties galore, etc . . . so David and I had to put an end to it tonight and get the girls to bed at a decent time:) Yeah right! David was asleep before everyone, he was kinda pooped out since we spent the day cleaning up leaves in our yard. Thank goodness for Gabe helping because we ended up with 37 full to the brim lawn and leaf bags today . . . and that's not counting the ones we cleaned up earlier in the week, which puts us up well over 40!! I guess he had a good reason to be so tired. Oh well, at least we got some cute pics out of those big piles of leaves. Thanks to everyone for all their help in leaf cleanup and making Halloween so much fun!! Bring on the turkey! :)