Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a great trip to Monterey during Thanksgiving weekend. 

Girls getting ready to walk along the boardwalk

 Our favorite place for posing pictures :)

 This cracks me up... Natalie telling on Olivia for taking her shoes off...

 You can tell by looking at her that she's mischevious, can't you?!?!

 We always bring a few puzzles, games & usually the girls get one new toy during this trip.  We brought the Toy Story Mr. Potato heads & a little fishing game.  They were a hit.

 Olivia trying on Jessie's hat

Her favorite thing to do right now is puzzles.

 Another day... we go walking on the boardwalk when it's too cold to go down to the beach

 Olivia is OBSESSED with Kate.  And, even in all caps that might be an understatement ;)  She had to be holding her leash or she wasn't happy.

 Besides Thanksgiving day when it was really cold & rainy, the rest of the trip was sunny & pretty warm.  We got to go down to the beach several times thanks to the weather.



Cousins & Great Grandma

It's going to be a fun Christmas at Great Grandma & Grandpa's house with all of these girls running around!

 We had a family get together recently because we were going to be gone for Thanksgiving & we all hadn't seen each other in a while.  Great Grandma wanted to use a picture of the girls for her Christmas card this year so we had a fun little photo shoot & some pizza. 

 Then Grandma played the piano & the girls "helped" and danced around. 



Turkey Craft

Natalie likes to do projects and sometimes she comes up with ideas on her own.  One day she asked if we had any beans.  We checked the pantry & had one type.  She needed more.  So we went to the store & got a couple of different kinds of beans.  She had this turkey project in mind where we traced her hand & each finger was filled with a different type of bean.  She's a funny girl!

Trunk or Treat

Instead of Trick or Treating this year, we went to a Trunk or Treat at church.  It was really fun because we knew most of the people giving out candy.

 

Caught, Red Handed!

Halloween Parade at Preschool

Natalie's school always has a Halloween parade & party.  This year we had a furlough day so I got to get both girls dressed up & take them. 

Here is my beautiful Rapunzel!

Getting ready for the parade.

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 Nana with Olivia as a purple butterfly

 Rapunzel & Jessie are BFF's :)

 Olivia sneaking a treat.

 Coloring at the "big kids" table :)



A Visit with Nana & Papa G

Nana & Papa G are headed for Mexico again for the winter :(  We had breakfast & played at the park with them right before we left.  (This was the Sunday before Halloween that is why the girls are in their Halloween outfits :)