So much to be thankful for...

Where do I begin? For starters, we've been in Colorado over Thanksgiving weekend and then followed by a weekend in Vegas - it was an amazing whirlwind of family, friends, and lots and lots of love (and food). Thanksgiving day was no different. My brother and sister in law are gone on a month-long cruise and their girls, our adorable beloved nieces are staying in Denver with Jen's parents. We were so incredibly lucky and got to spend Thanksgiving and the day after with them!

Thanksgiving day was glorious weather - Rob and I started out with a long walk down the Platte river in Denver.

Rob couldn't help him, had to do a Tebow in front of Mile High: And then we couldn't wait anymore, we had to go get our hands on those Dotur midgets!We took them to a playground and ran around like crazy for a while - the day was perfectAnna was so dang cute on those slides, non stop!

No, I wasn't bad, Abby and I were playing hide and seek :)
Some downtime for snuggles:
We played with them at the playground until dinner was ready and then we pigged out, Patti and her crew had worked so hard and cooked over 2 days....the food was delicious!!!!!

Rob and I wanted to do clean-up since we were such freeloaders on the food...and here's an incredibly rare shot of Ken, my Dad's amazing and hardworking caregiver (and part of the family, at this point) actually sitting still for one second. We call him the hummingbird...consider yourself very lucky you actually caught a glimpse of this rare sight. :)

And the whole gang, post carb-load and fully enjoying our Triptophan. I love "take one" best:

Martha Stewart...draw your glue gun!

All right Martha, I think we all know, I'm not a crafty girl by any means but I did you proud. On a rainy day this weekend I was inspired to do a fun crafty project so I braved the lunacy that is a Sunday afternoon in Michaels and ended up making a fall wreath. Isn't it so pretty? I wouldn't say I'm ready for a glue gun quick draw or anything...but I'm still pretty dang proud of myself.

Halloweenies

Ok, so I lagged on blogging this last week. I hurt my back on Halloween weekend so the last thing I've wanted to do was sit my butt in front of a computer to blog. So, I'm just now getting to the Halloween pics, here you go. I had to take a muscle relaxant to rally and party that night, so needless so say I was a noodley mess...but still had fun despite the pain.

First we had a neighborhood block party in front of our house - we were only able to stay a few hours since we had another party to attend. The beauty part of the 2nd party was it was also in our 'hood...so nice to be able to shuffle on over there and back!

We recycled our old Octoberfest costumes and Galileo was again our trusted rescue dog. Our neighbor Jose went as "Dr. Shots" And we had a storm trooper in our mix...but otherwise the first party had nobody else in costumes - so we pretty much looked even more like weirdos than we normally do :) Melissa as the Black Swan...but WAY less nutso and much happierJay went as Captain Stubing and he had seriously the shortest shorts I've ever been...hysterical! I freakin' love this pic: Matt as Dwight Shrute, Lindsey as a cat and Pete as one of those green "whoaaaaaa" guys from Toy Story: Me with a cougar and Slash! (who, incidentally, I think nailed it - he looked more like Slash than Slash looks like Slash) And then the night went downhill from there: Me as Slash, some dude as a butterfly, you know, the usual. Leave it to the guy who's super allergic to dogs and cats to ALWAYS make best of friends with both at a party....
Randoms:
Ok, damn it, it's been decided. Next year I'm going to have no back pain and I'm going to be able to enjoy one of my favorite holidays in style!