Thankful

 We were blessed to be able to share a Thanksgiving meal with both sets of Grandparents this year - Matt's family a couple of weeks ago, and mine today.  

When I say prayers with the kids at night, we always start with thanking God for the good things in their day and things they are grateful for.  This year for Thanksgiving, we decided to do a project where we wrote things that we're thankful for on pieces of a paper chain.  Our chain is very long....so much to be thankful for!!!

Matt had lots of helpers with stuffing the turkey!

Babies!

Gianna has a super-short attention span and she does not like to sit still to watch TV or movies for more than a few minutes, but the one show she's interested in is Sesame Street.  She calls it "Babies" because her favorite part is when Elmo's World comes on and he usually has a segment where he talks to a baby.  As soon as she gets home from preschool she always requests "vanilla milk and Babies"!  So when we saw that Sesame Street Live was coming to town, we knew we'd have to get tickets just to see the look on her face!  The show didn't actually contain any babies, but she was still amazed by the big singing characters and loved it!  Gigi really never dances, but this show even managed to get her up and moving to the music.  The boys even had fun even though the show was geared towards younger kids - it was a great family night out!

Fall Fun

I'm terribly behind in posting on the blog but I wanted to be sure to post my Halloween pictures before Thanksgiving at least!!  GiGi and Angelo dressed up as garden gnomes and Dominic as the Headless Horseman, continuing with our sweet + scary theme from last year!  This was Gianna's first year to go out trick-or-treating with her brothers and friends.  This girl has almost as much of a sweet tooth as Angelo, so she was in her element!

I love this picture because it looks like Angelo is protecting Gianna from the scary Headless Horseman.

It's all about the candy!  Gigi being silly before trick-or-treat.

GiGi and Dominic still going strong.... Angelo was ready for bed after the sugar rush wore off.

  

GiGi's candy corn Halloween outfit for pre-school

Cheering on Dominic at flag football the weekend before Halloween.
Gigi loves to watch the boys play sports and clap.

I'm looking forward to having more time this holiday weekend to catch up on posting!  :)  So much to be thankful for!!