Take Me For A Ride

Thanksgiving day we had dinner with my family at my grandmas. They live out so Ben took his truck to drive around. His little cousin, Riley Jett, loved it!

She wanted to drive it so bad, but she's just not big enough yet.

So she rode in the passenger seat and played with the radio. (yes it has a working radio!)

She also helped while he looked under the hood.

Then they helped haul firewood.

Makin' My Grocery List

I was making my list for the store today. Ben decided he would make one too. He had me tell him how to spell everything and then he wrote it.

I think he does well... But we need to work on his lowercase letters!

Thanksgiving Lunch with Ben

Monday all the parents were invited to come eat Thanksgiving lunch at school. So I brought yummy Green Bean Casserole up to Ben's class. When I got there Ms. Kristen was telling them the story of Thanksgiving... and she had props!!!

The teachers told the kids to go get their hats. The girls had little white bonnets made of paper and the boys had BIG pilgrim hats.

Here is Ben and Alex with their hats on! So cute!

They made these cute turkey place-mats to eat their lunch on. Ben only ate rolls! He is way too picky!

It was so fun to see all the kids eating and playing together. They are all so cute! Ben's teacher, Ms. Ashley let me know that all the girls say that Ben is their "boyfriend". One of the little girls came and sat next to me and talked for a long time. Her mom and I were cracking up!

Gobble Gobble!

Ben and I made this Turkey last night. He loves to do creative stuff like this! It turned out great!

Trick-or-Treat

Man, what a night! We went to Landon's house to Trick-or-Treat tonight. Those boys were all over the place. They ran from house to house. The boys are still learning the rules of Trick-or-Treating. Ya know only knock on doors that have their porch light on!

Here they are! Ben (SpiderMan), Landon (Captain Hook) and Abigail (Larry Boy). These kids are ready to go! I didn't get a picture of my niece, Macee, but she was a flower. She was so precious!!

Ben LOVES candy! Look at him checkin' out his loot!

Gosh he looks so big in this picture. Makes me sad!

Getting Ready....

We've been getting ready for Halloween at our house. Ben is so excited this year... 4 years old is fun, fun!

First we got the Halloween/Fall decorations down from the attic. Then Ben informed we don't have enough decorations. So I had him help me make this cute wreath with spider web and big spiders on it. (Sorry no picture and I am to lazy to get up and take one!)

We have Ben's costume. He is going to be "Spider Man with the muscles" as he calls it. I will post pictures after we go Trick-or-Treating with his cousin Landon on Saturday.

Last Saturday we went to the Pumpkin Patch. They had all kinds of animals.

(In case anyone needs a Christmas gift idea for Me. I want the one in front with the white legs!)

There was also a Hay and Corn Maze. It was so fun.

This is the only picture Ben would let me take. Being a 4 year old boy means no pictures!

Ben woke me up Tuesday morning at 6:45am to make Halloween Cookies. He had to wait until 9:45am!

The pumpkins are carved and lit!!!

Bring on the ghost and goblins! We are READY! But don't come to our house we will be at Landon's TRICK-OR-TREATING!!!

Rain, Rain Go Away!

It has been raining for what seems like FOREVER! It's also Fall Break at Ben's schools this week. So today we spent an hour at Sam's Wholesale and almost 2 hours at Walmart. We looked at EVERYTHING there! Seriously, EVERY toy was looked at and discussed. So my goal tonight is to come up with some fun projects for Ben to do this week. Things we can do inside since it won't STOP raining.

This afternoon I let Ben make Dipped Pretzel Sticks. They are EASY and YUM YUM!

Ben gets so excited to decorate! His decorating tip: SPRINKLES, SPRINKLES, SPRINKLES! Then after decorating the second one he's done and ready to eat his creations. Which left me to decorate them all by myself. But he did sit at the table and boss me around while I finished them.

Can you tell which ones I decorated and the ones Ben did?

"Mommy STOP takin' my picture!"