Christmas Lights and a Gingerbread House Fail

 Shane finally said yes to outside lights! He bought some on amazon and hung them up on Thanksgiving. They are so pretty and they have different settings that are controlled by a little remote. We went for a little drive last night to see how they looked. I tried to take some pictures but they didn't turn out too good. I'll have to try again with my phone. 

So Nannie bought us this cute Candyland themed gingerbread house kit last year that we never opened. We talked about going to see the Kewanee Christmas lights last night, but they aren't on yet, so we decided to decorate the gingerbread house instead. It was all going okay until we tried to attach the roof together. We thought we had it, but it just kept slowly sliding down. They still had a great time decorating it, and Ali was super into it! It was fun while it lasted, but it is now in the trash! 

Thanksgiving

 Thanksgiving looked a little different this year, just like everything else. We only had mamaw and papa over this year but we still had a great day. They came over a little early before lunch so that they could make cute little chocolate turkeys for dessert. We even had another front yard football game complete with dessert at halftime. It was Daddy and Blaine (Cowboys) versus papa, Bryce, and mommy (Bears). According to Bryce, the Bears were the winner of the Superbowl! 

The kids were so excited to help me get the dining room table all set up. They loved getting out all the "fancy" dishes and silverware! 

               They had so much fun making their little turkeys, Ali was especially into it! 

It was seriously about 10 minutes after we ate, that both papa and daddy were asleep! Bryce was anxiously awaiting the start of the football game outside! 

                                                    Oh the intensity! 

Front Yard Football

 The boys have so much fun playing football in the front yard! Bryce especially loves it. He spends so much time practicing and Shane even found some old yard markers at his school that he brought home. Bryce takes a yardstick outside and measures out each sign. It is pretty cute! One night when they were ending the game and Bryce was picking up, Shane captured some pretty cute pictures! 

                 He had to pause and watch his papa pull in the driveway. 

Random Pictures from Shane's phone

 I usually go through Shane's phone and steal a bunch of pictures about once a month and I'm a few months behind. Here's a few pictures from a sunflower field to a dragon and a few in between! 

Willard planted a sunflower field just down the road from our house and we stopped one day to take a few pictures. 

Daddy and Bryce spent some time in the tractor helping haul in wagons this fall. They loved every second of it! 

Ali came up for supper one night after playing in the dress up clothes and looked like this. Daddy took a whole series of pictures as he was telling her to pose. It was so funny! 

You would think that there is some crazy story behind this picture but no. It's just Blaine coming down the stairs in his dragon costume and casually sitting in the blanket box.