Weekend of parties

On Friday, I had a neighborhood ornament & cookie exchange party & then on Sat, my brother had a dinner holiday party & then on Sun, Gran & Uncle Brad came in from Alabama to celebrate Christmas.

With his loot

Big hit was Mater

Playing with Mater with Cuz Evan

With his Gran

Crazy day at school

Today Spenser had to dress "crazy" for school. His teacher said he won first prize! In addition to the underwear on the outside of his clothes, he also has on mismatching socks & shoes & we tried to get his hair to stick up.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Spenser made a thankful tree at school & this is what he said he is thankful for this year:

Our Dogs

I don't give any credit to our sweet dogs so I thought I'd post some pics of them with their favorite boy!

Dexter

                                                                Sebastian

Happy Halloween 2011

Spenser went as Lighning McQueen (lightning da queen as he says) from Cars this year.

                                                          Ringing the bell

                                                          Waiting patiently

 

Halloween is my favorite!

It's no secret that Halloween is my favorite holiday!  The costumes, the moveis, the songs, the haunted houses & of course the candy!  Some photos of some of my favorite decorations we have:

Breast Cancer Month

Since October is Breast cancer month, I wanted to do something to honor Mom but wasn't sure how until I thought about it. My Mom was a teacher & an advocate & I think that this is what she would want.  For all the women out there, when you get a mammogram, please get an MRI too. Demand it. Mammograms no longer pick up cancer by itself. Sometimes breasts are dense or the tumors are in spots a mammogram can't find so please get an MRI as well. Do this & pass it on, it is so important.