I'm Grateful...

I'm grateful this year for a great husband, wonderful kids...and having 36 pounds shed...and even more to go. Hooray!

Happy Thanksgiving

Our Three little TurkeysThe best picture of the three little turkeys.

Carter the Head Turkey

Anja the Middle Turkey

Fischer the Baby Turkey

The baby turkey was not happy by the end of pictures.

Our Three Little Turkeys...a tradition every year on Thanksgiving, where we make turkey hats and take pictures to remember the day. Happy Thanksgiving to our family and friends. We love you all and hope you have a great day relaxing and enjoying those around you.

Everyday Life

For Our Dad--We Love and Miss you!

On Sunday, we all were still experiencing our colds. We decided to do some fun activities inside. We hung out in my room and had a good time. We thought about Clinton...so we not only took a special video for Daddy...but we also took a picture a special picture just for him.

Snow Snow...and We Love our Dad...and Fun with Friends

Carter

Anja

Fischer

Nathan, Carter, Adam, and Tyler (what great friends)

Hi Dad! We are having fun in the snow and we are excited to see you soon. Good luck in the rest of your interviews!

Just Anja and Fischer

Anja loves to be everywhere Fischer is. She has to give him lots of hugs and kisses...Fischer is (we think, at least most of the time...but maybe not this time) enjoying all the attention.

Just Me and My Brother

Carter and Fischer

I just love taking pictures of my kids. I'm lucky I get to spend so much time with them.

Carter and Fischer hanging out on the couch. (pardon the colds...we all have them)

'Ggooo' and I love my brother!

Carter wanted to take a picture with Fischer.

Our happy Fischer!

We got 2 great pictures of Fischer smiling. Hooray he is 11 weeks and 2 days old!!! (and he started sleeping through the night 5 days ago...yeah for 10 hours at night!...I really needed the sleep)

Fischer ggoo000ing at Mommy

Fischer Talking

Fischer is trying to talk and is possibly enjoying his siblings around him.  (actually I was too late in grabbing the camera...cuz he was making darling noises and smiling at me earlier...and then the camera came out...and all the fun noises ceased)...darn...but at least he's still cute!

Cheese! A Baby! and a Ship!

Carter REALLY wanting to say CHEEEEESE! at the camera.

Fischer looking at something in particular. (2 months..taken on Nov 3)

"We're in our ship" pardon the chocolate faces and horses for ores...we are serious boat goers here!

Anja's been knocked back and she can't help row, b/c her Chocolate Factory Worker hat is covering her face.  They must row to more chocolate.

Clinton had fun taking shots of the kids!

Loving November

Anja enjoying the fall weather. We've had a beautiful November so far.

picture courtesy of Jenni (check out her great blogs..posted at right, Gregg and Jenni and Simple Beans)

A Shirt and a Birthday

Today is my 26th birthday.  Hooray!  I love birthdays and think they are the BIGGEST deal.  I awoke and found at the table a homemade card from Clinton.  He had used pictures to tell a little story of us and wrote me a poem (I just LOVE Clinton's poems).  I opened gifts and had fun laughing with Clinton about various moments.  Carter and Anja came over and watched, helped, and danced to the music cards sent by my parents.  It has been great so far...and as soon as Fischer is fed, I'm going to go exercise!  Something I do everyday to win my body back.

Also, Carter looks so handsome in button up collared shirts.  I put one on him yesterday that as kids we referred to as a flannel shirt (sometimes made by my Grandma Timmerman).  While I was putting on the shirt, I asked him if he knew who wore this kind of shirt.  He replied no.  "Well," I said, "Your Opa and Grandpa wear flannel shirts."  A while later we were outside and Carter saw a friend.  He walked right up to him and said, "Hey, I'm wearing an Opa and Grandpa shirt!"  As if that really was the 'name' of his shirt!  

Happy Halloween

A Halloween Party Event

The Morgan Family: Clinton & Alexis both 'Jess Henderson, anesthesia resident, neighbor, amazing friend, who always said "HEY MAN! How's it going?", and put in Alexis's epidural', Carter the Wizard, Anja the Witch, and Fischer the Pumpkin

We love having Fischer in our family.  He is a sweet baby who has started smiling at us lots!...and makes great noises.

Anja made us work for good pictures.  She loved her hat and never wanted it off her head.  Any time it did fall off, she would said, "my hat, my hat, my hat" in a voice that indicated she needed it back on asap.

At the party there were many super heroes..and sometimes more than one.  We had Spiderman, Batman, Spiderman, Superman, and a special Wizard.

And Dorothy came from Kansas, then that awesome Wizard, Princess Leah (who posed for another special picture with the Wizard), and TWO Jedi Knights!

When the party was done...Anja and Clinton thought it was the spookiest they'd been to since last year! (notice the pin on Clinton's scrub, it matched Alexis's earings!)

Here in Hershey, we trick or treat on the Thursday before Halloween.  Why you ask?  I'm not totally postive, but a woman who has lived here for over 25 years said that it has been like that since before she lived here.  We love it!  It never falls on a weekend, Sunday, and the times are designated as well 6-8pm.  A great time...that way if you stay home to hand out candy...you don't get visitors past that time.  

Since Trick or Treating fell on Thursday, a friend had a HUGE  Halloween Party on the 31st.  We all dressed up and had a wonderful time.  (especially since the party was thrown by two friends, one of whom is a neighbor and the party was outside our front door!..no traveling involved)

Trick or Treat

Carter's pile at the end (don't be fooled, he had a whole other stash in another bag)

Our family plus our neighbor Gabe at the end of Trick or Treating. (plus our cool pumpkin Clinton carved)

Fischer our Pumpkin

Anja our Witch

Carter our Wizard

We had a great time this Halloween.  I made parts of the kids costumes...which is a first for me.  We loved trick or treating with friends around our apartment complex and being scared by a gorilla! (picture to come!)  It was just such a sweet experience.  Yeah for Halloween!

Trick or Treat

This is a video of Carter and Anja trick or treating.  It's dark, but you can still here them.  We found an area of a neighborhood that handed out full size or king size candy.  I didn't realize they gave king size until the next day when Carter wanted to watch a movie and he wanted a special treat.  He grabbed a bag of kissables and I thought, "wow, this is a big bag."  I poured them into a little bowl and he scurried off.  Later while cleaning up, I saw the bag said "king" on it.  oh, no wonder the bag was SO big!