Tyler’s class had a holiday party today with treats and they got to decorate cookies! They made reindeer hats to wear for their party too.

On Saturday, the kids went to Lowe’s to look for a Christmas tree. Their first selection was a 7ft tree, but David talked them down to a 5-6ft tree, which turned out to look pretty big in our living room.

While we were in LA, Natalie asked Po Po to teach her how to knit. So they walked to Shims (dollar store) and bought some needles and yarn and Natalie learned how to knit. She says its going to be a scarf.

The kids had Thanksgiving week off from school so we headed down to LA for the week.

While we were there, we celebrated Gong Gong’s birthday at a buffet in Universal City.

Ashley came over for a visit

On one of the days I had to work, David took the kids to the LA Zoo

Before Thanksgiving break, Tyler’s class had a Thanksgiving feast! The kids got to sign up to contribute to the party. Tyler brought Otter Pops. All the kids dressed up as pilgrims.

The kids had the day off from school today for Veteran’s day, so I booked our BFF Morgan for a play date! We started the afternoon by having lunch at Red Robin and then we headed over to Color Me Mine for some fun painting time.

Not sure what that glop of stuff is by Tyler’s mouth!

On Halloween, the kids had Halloween parade’s at school. The Kindergartener’s had theirs separate from the rest of the school. Tyler was excited to parade around in his costume. Lots of kids were calling out “Snoopy!” and I heard several parents say to one another “Did you see Snoopy?”

Getting ready to go Trick-or-Treating. This year, Sinclaire came over again and the three kids went trick-or-treating around our neighborhood.

They brought home lots of candy

Video of Tyler’s parade

We got 2 medium sized pumpkins from the Moreland school district pumpkin patch. Natalie carved the bigger one and Tyler took on the smaller. We also had a bunch of baby pumpkins from the pumpkin patch and our garden.

Yup “Snooby” That’s how Tyler says it. He was so proud of this costume this year. (Picked it himself too!) He was originally going to be Mario from Super Mario Bros, but for some reason changed his mind.

Here he is posing for pictures

On Saturday, our friends Chris & Dori had a Halloween/Birthday party for Chris’s birthday. Natalie and Tyler had fun dressing up and going to what felt like a grown-up party. There weren’t many kids there. Dori and her family did an awesome job decorating the house and backyard. Tyler said it was really spooky but cool.

In the car on the way to the party

The kids got to decorate pumpkins

Tyler said it was “the best party ever”

While at the party, Tyler came running up to me and said, “Mom, someone I don’t know just took a picture of me.” He was happy about this because he was very proud of his costume and knew he looked cute!

We even met Russell from Up! there

There was a fire dancer performance. This guy was awesome!

Hoops and Yoyo (Chris & Dori’s costume)