Poor neglected blog...

Wow...I've gotten behind again. Time to catch up on my poor blog.

I guess November has been busy...how is it Thanksgiving in 2 days?

Crazy! I'm excited to head to Wyoming to celebrate this year. It's been a few years since we've had Thanksgiving there. I think actually this was the last time...

This was 2009 Mom! Longer ago than I was thinking...Gunnar wasn't even 2 yet! (the past couple Thanksgivings when it's been my family's year, we've hosted it at our house)...

Anyway I love my Mom's Thanksgiving dinner and it's always just nice to go home :)

We're heading out tomorrow and I should be packing, but haven't even started. Oh and there is hardly any food in the house so who knows what we'll scrounge up for dinner. Maybe pizza ;)

I can't even remember what I need to catch up on...

Let's see...

Oh we have another reader in this house!!

Gunnar has picked up reading so easily just like Ashton did and is now trying to read everything!

A few weeks ago he brought this book home from the library and read the whole thing to me.

 He is loving his new skill and it is so fun to see!
I have to add this...His cute teacher Mrs. Coburn said this about him as a comment to something I put on Facebook about him reading...His reading skills are tremendous! He "knocks my socks off" every single day. Best of all -- he is so casual, subtle, and modest about being our resident reading expert! He is raising the bar for a bunch of others who are noticing! Thanks for sharing him. That made my day :)

I so love spending my mornings with him...

One day he bet me his mouth was bigger than mine. Unfortunately no one's is Gunnar...but nice try, haha :)

What else...oh we've had a couple of small snow storms. Always fun to wake up those first few times and see snow! And even more fun when it doesn't melt by the time school is out and they can actually play in it.

They love it...

We got our family pictures taken a couple weeks ago. I had put off scheduling it forever. I just couldn't get motivated to try to coordinate clothes and get everyone to have a good attitude about it. But in the end I just made myself do it and threw some stuff together one day and we got them taken a few days later. A couple days before it snowed. So I was really glad we got it done. I had won a free mini session with Brittany at a fundraiser we went to last year, so that was nice! In our rush to get done before it started to rain harder, we forgot to do any singles of the boys so I made them dress up again the next day and go back out with me so I could snap some of them.

They cooperated pretty well for being not very happy to have to get dressed up again!

Can't wait to get the family ones back. Ashton especially looks SO different than he did last year.

Anyway I guess that's about all that's happened this month. Hard to believe Christmas is already less than a month away. Time is flying by faster than ever...