Thanksgiving!!!

Ok, so I'm a little late posting these...but, it's still November. Thanksgiving was a little 'different' this year for us as we had no family to be with. :( That morning we did a bunch of yard work to finish winterizing the yard (and good thing because it dropped about 40 degrees the day after Thanksgiving). We were invited to a mass potluck at the church and accepted (mostly for Heidi's sake of not being in charge of cooking the entire feast for just the two of us). So, it was fun to get the turkey and all that jazz, but it did kind of feel like a ward party. One fun thing was trying a deep fried turkey. Yep, deep fried. Only in Arkansas! It was actually super yummy and tender, not greasy at all. YUM! My contributions included sweet potato casserole, Michelle's holiday fruit jello thingy, and then pumpkin and pecan pies. YUMMMMMY!

Pretty Dresses

I'm so excited for the holiday season! One of the MANY reasons is because it means I get to dress Ashley in all of her pretty holiday dresses. Thanks to Debra for this one! Ashley needed some black church shoes to go with her dresses, so we went out shopping. In the shoe store, I literally had to force the black shoes on her...the whole time while she's yelling, "No, no, no, no!" After I saw that they fit, I let her pick out some shoes to try on. She went straight for the sparkly pink. Ha! Well, Sunday came around and we had to put the black ones on again. I struggled and struggled and finally got them on and....what do you know? She did not want to take them off! In fact, now she wants to wear them all the time and throws a fit when we have to take them off. I don't know where she gets all this drama! (It couldn't be from her mother!)

Happy Halloween!!!

Here are some fun pics from our Halloween! We had fun carving our pirate ship pumpkin for FHE on Monday night. Then on Halloween, we took Ashley to the Home Office and let her do her trick-or-treating there. She could say "Treat?" and then "Thank You!" It was really cute. Then we came home, had dinner, put Ashley to bed, turned out the lights, and watched the movie Nanny McPhee. It was a fun movie. Happy Halloween!