Thanksgiving

We started off Thanksgiving with a trip to the ER on Thansgiving eve.  We were at a friends house to pick up bunk beds and Eli's face caught the corner of Joeys tailgate. He was actually very good through the whole deal that the bar has been set high.

It hurt to smile so he gave thumbs up

5 Stitches and a half smile later we were done!

When we got home the bunk beds were here and set up! Top bunk was decided and they fit perfectly in nook I wanted them in!  

Thanksgiving was a 58* degree day so why not do an outside home project.  Since we were not going to Ohio I freshened up are outside and painted our doors and shutters.  Joey deep fried a turkey, I painted, the kids played and I never got out of paint clothes!

Here's the start with the 90's green

And here is the new color

This is on the doors and shutters and I am super happy with it.  I got it done except for the window next to the door on Thanksgiving.  Finished up the window on Saturday.  

We had our turkey, all right!

And we kept our tradition alive and set up our tree the weekend BEFORE thanksgiving.  We are officially onto Christmas, but we did not forget to give our thanks for our many blessings and gifts! 

Eli just cannot wait for Christmas and keeps asking how many days to it!!  

 

Odds and Ends

We have been bent out shape with all this Covid virus stuff.  Our numbers are increasing and we are getting our second wave.  Here is what we've been up too!

Ella, making my back hurt.

The girls declared this day at school national pigtail day.  Unofficially.

They got all their little friends to do pigtails this day.  Look at all those masks ;)

The girls and their friend in their onesie PJ's

Our friends have moved back to the Quad Cities from Louisiana with Deere.  So we made a trip to their beautiful home and spent the night.  It was nice to reconnect with the fellow Buckeyes and now I want a new house :)  They have 3 teenagers in the house and lets just say.....I'm not ready for that!

Our dear friends and neighbors moved :(  They were who we camped and boated with ALL THE TIME! The boys were the girls first friends.  We were all sad to see them go.  

Here are the cards we made for the boys before they left

I framed this picture for the boys too!

I was able to run a 5K and I took my running buddy with me.  He was in stroller until the end of it then he took off running for the finish line.  I had a decent time, the weather was PERFECT and the course was pretty.  

Scooters are life and just enjoying this unseasonably warm fall

Halloween 2020

This year was super hero year.  Josie was Batgirl, Ella was Wonder woman and Eli was Spiderman

This was also what we happened to have in our basement in our dress up bin.  Bonus!  

Covid did not ruin this holiday for us.  We went trick or treating with a small group, but the kids really ran around on their own and were not by each other that much.

We totally lucked out with weather for both of our halloween events as well! Yeah!

Batgirl

All their LOOT!

Wonder woman

Our small little group

And a few weeks before Halloween and local campground does their halloweekend night and the campers can go around trick or treating at the camp ground.  We took costumes and planned the dirty job of carving pumpkins while we were there.  This also happened to be our last weekend of camping for the year!  We did so much camping!

Eli with his scary pumpkin!

Ready to go trick or treating! I had forgotten Eli's mask but I had what I needed in our camper to make one out of paper plate. Whew!

Our lit up pumpkins! Joey had a great idea to carve these there.  No mess really and it was an activity they could do since we were not boating this late in the season.

A group of campers did glow stick people and walked around the campsite like this.  It was AWESOME!  I thoroughly enjoyed their costumes! 

 

Family Pictures 2020

Well here are our WINDY family pictures that my friend and I, took and I edited.  

Our outfits are fails, except for mine! I look great in that jumper :)

 

She tried and she did!

Ella has been working so hard to learn how to dive and she finally DID IT!  She is doing so great and really does so well at swimming. I can definitely see improvement from last year.  She loves freestyle the best!  

Here are some videos of doing her thing.