Happy Thanksgiving!!!

 We have had a fabulous break this week/weekend.  It's been full of fun and rest. Here are a few pictures from our 24 hour trip up to Blacksburg to see the fam for Thanksgiving.  Matt and I took the kids to the playground while the delicious turkey was cooking.

 Cousin Ruby enjoying the swing!

 Me holding baby Beckett, he's getting so big! If you look closely you can see we have on matching shirts!

 Grandpa Hank!!!

 Sweet Sarah Claire lived up to her nickname (SC) this turkey day as she absolutely LOVED crackers with cream cheese and pepper jelly, go figure!!

 SC and her Uncle Ben!

 Grandma Cheryl and all 4 grand kids! Ruby looked a bit apprehensive.

And then Grandpa jumped in and Ollie decided he was going to be sad, SC decided she needed to check on baby Beckett! And what in the world is that crab doing in our photo session!?

And this was what was waiting for us, when we got inside, a beautiful, organic turkey, Julie is a fantastic chef...she cooked it at 450 degrees, it was A-mazing!  We are so very thankful for all of our family!

November...

 November is more than half way through...here is the gigantic blogging catch up.  We've been going to lots of birthday parties...this one was for some of our favorite friends who moved away but are now back in town!!! Yay! Happy Birthday Lukey!

 We're still in the remodel mode, here is Matt pulling the light fixture, so that he can bring up the dry wall for the  new room! I think he hung about 50 pieces this weekend.

 We've been to several playdates at the park...love this pic of the 3 of us!

 We've been to playdates at the mall (tried to go to the zoo but got rained on.)

 We've still been sharing rooms (and sweet hugs!) Matt snapped this pic for me this morning, SC is wearing another one of my 30 year old smocked dresses!

And we're still being creative...we got a new vacuum a few weeks ago and Matt decided to turn our old one into a "BackVac."  Here he is sucking up drywall pieces off the steps!

I am looking forward to a short week, feeling thankful for time to come with family, we'll be spending some time with the newest Hannam...baby Beckett and cousin Ruby! 

Happy Thanksgiving Week!

Halloween...East Park style!

Whitney the good witch, Darth Vader, the red ninja and the pink princess had a blast this afternoon at their annual neighborhood Halloween shindig...there was even a plate of "finger sandwiches!" Tis the season!

Creeper Trail!!!

 This weekend we hit the high road on our bikes in Damascus, VA with some of our good friends.  Ollie and Conner had a blast!

 It was very chilly as we set off on our 17 mile (downhill) adventure, but we managed to have a good time. Sarah Claire even fell asleep for a couple of miles in the baby seat on my bike.

 Heather and I...you can barely see the leaves in the back ground.

 Sweet SC giving Grant a hug.

 Love this one!

 And these two little sweeties, love the bridge in the background!

 Yay, a family photo...that's grass sticking up in the front, we had the camera on a rock by the creek on auto timer!

view from the inside...

Here is a quick view of the inside of SC's new room, she will have  two closets, one we'll probably end up using for storage, since we lost our attic.  And here is the big hole for the window.  Sounds like everything is on a stand still for a few days while we wait for some parts to come in! 

Wednesday...

Pretty cool!

Tuesday...

Today brought a glass of orange juice, some blue jeans, cute Halloween t-shirt and skirt, a HUGE opening at the back of our house...whew, and a little computing to end all the fun.