Happy Thanksgiving ~ The First Time

Today we are having Thanksgiving with Chad's family. His sister Kristi came down with her family, Chad's parents, grandparents and Aunt are all coming over to our house for lunch. I am a little nervous about preparing the meal, but super excited! We hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving whenever you celebrate and remember to be thankful for everything that we have!

Wedding Time!

Friday night was Jackie (our daycare's daughter) and Kurt's wedding. The kids had a GREAT time dancing! Kurt's dad has a polka band and the kids had so much fun dancing. We finally got Braxton to leave around 11 or so because Lilly was SO tired! The other kids from the daycare and Cindy's grandkids were they and they were running and jumping all around. Here are some pictures, they aren't great because it was dark, but you get the point!

Lilly made some friends at the wedding!

Lilly danced with Seth, Maria's husband.

Braxton was taking pictures all night!

Braxton dancing with the bride!

Lilly and the flower girl became fast friends!

A Day with Friends!

Last Saturday my great friend Jodi brought her two kids, Radley and Sabrina, down for a playday! The kids had a great time playing with the trains and the legos while us "moms" got to talk. It was nice to catch up!


Playing with Legos.


Braxton, Radley, and Sabrina playing with the cars.



Lilly and Radley watching some TV.

Random Update

I thought I would post a random update on the Dalton household. I don't have any pictures to post right now.
The kids are starting to get pretty excited about Christmas! Once Halloween was over, all of us shifted to Christmas mode. We have actually got our Christmas cards done and they should be printed and delivered in the next few days. woo hoo for us! I am also trying to plan to use SCRIP through martyrs for Gift Cards for Christmas. That way Braxton gets the credit for it at school, and I can budget for christmas with the cards that I have. So far it is working great!
Lilly is talking more and more! Her favorite things to say right now are "I don't know" and "No, Mom" anytime Chad tries to do anything her for. It is so nice that she is finally able to communication with the rest of us! Braxton understands her more than any of us though, so he spends a lot of time translating.
With the days getting shorter and colder, we are trying to find things to do inside. I am afraid that we are quickly going to run out of ideas! I have no idea how their daycare does it.
We hope everyone is doing great!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

We hope everyone had a great Halloween! We certainly did! On Tuesday night we went to Boo at the Zoo, it was a great night for it and the kids got lots of great stuff! Thursday night Braxton got to do Karate in his costume, and he thought that was pretty fun! Of course, his Chef outfit was quite different from all of the more "dark" costumes. Ninjas, Star wars, Spiderman, etc. After karate we carved pumpkins, the kids had a great time getting the ickies out. They had some help with the carving though. :)

Last night we just went around our neighborhood. We were probably only out an hour and a half or so, and the kids really cleaned up! then we came home and braxton handed out candy to the "customers". he kept calling them that, we don't know why for sure!

We hope everyone had a great halloween! can you believe it is November already?!?!

Lilly the witch didn't want to wear her hat!

Chef Braxton! he got a lot of questions about baking pizza.

Happy Halloween!

Braxton carving his pumpkin!

Lilly and her pumpkin!

the pumpkins!