November

What a fabulous November we had.  So full of family time.  We started off the month with the Annual Holiday Parade for our town.  Both Kamryn and Avery were part of the parade this year with their cheer squads.  Below is Chris and I waiting to cheer on our favorite cheerleaders!

 Here they come!

 Avery

 Kamryn

 The grande finale of the parade....Santa's arrival!!!

 We started the week of Thanksgiving with my birthday.  We had a fabulous family dinner.  Later, my sisters family came over for cake and icescream.  Chris and I spent the next three days getting ready to host Thanksgiving for the Hartman family.  On the morning of Thanksgiving, before we headed to our annual Turkey Bowl, the kids all got new Christmas pajamas.

By 815 on Thanksgiving morning most of the Hartmans headed to the Annual Hartman Thanksgiving Turkey Bowl.  What a great way to start our day.

 After the game, we head home to get dinner in the oven, and spend time with NaNa and Pop Pop.

 As our kids get older, there seem to be fewer and fewer times that they are all together.  So, whenever they are all together, I make sure to snap away with my camera.

 Thought I would use one of these for our Christmas card, but we took one even better for our cards.

 Finally, around 330 most of the Hartmans gathered at our home for Thanksgiving dinner.

 We ate, we drank, the kids danced, we laughed, and laughed, and laughed.  Seating for 45 is not always easy inside, but we all manage.  One of my most favorite days of the year.

 Then on Friday we all got ready for a family wedding, David and Aimee.  Thought I might use this for our Christmas card....but no, it didnt make the final cut.

 My beautiful, amazing, fabulous party of seven at the beginning of the reception.

Our Crazy busy Fall

September/ October/November are so crazy busy for us.  Kamryn and Avery both cheer for our local township football team.  They practice 2 times a weeks and we are at games any given Friday night, Saturday or Sunday afternoon watching our girls cheer.

 Because we have been super crazy with cheer on weekends, we never had a chance to go pumpkin picking.  Chris ended up just buying one at Giant.  Our three youngest helped with the carving process.

 The final product!

 The last two trick-or-treaters.  Avery was a gangster and Kamryn was Kit the Kat. (Your guess is as good as mine!)

 On Friday, November 2nd, Santa arrived at the mall with an escort the local fire department.  Chris, Kamryn and I headed over to see him arrive.

 Here's the man in red on top of the fire truck.

 Kamryn waving to Santa.

 On Monday, Nov.4th, Chris and I took the four girls to the Justin Bieber concert.  Well actually, Chris and I didn't go into the concert.  We dropped the girls off at the gate and then we headed over to Xfininity Live for dinner.  All I can think about is what a great memory for our girls to have...all four of them going to a concert together.