Happy Eldredge Thanksgiving!

Thursday was round 2 for Thanksgiving. It was a very mellow year at the Eldredge side. Cory and Heather were in St. George and Jer and Britt left for St. George right after dinner so Kalee gave us all manicures while the boys played Xbox and the kids made gingerbread houses. Then we hung out and ate again and played board games. I had stayed up until 2:00 am the night before to do Black Friday shopping online so we didn't even have to do that Thursday night. It was a nice relaxing holiday!

Happy Rideout Thanksgiving!

We had Thanksgiving with the Rideout's on Wednesday night. It was our first big party at Benji and Allison's new house. We were a little nervous to have the kids running around, but everyone did great. We did lose Trey for a minute, but he had gone towards the sound of kids voices and we found him in the basement toy room. After dinner we burned off the calories with some tennis. 

The Lost Little Lonely Witch

Each year Caidence's grade does a drama performance. Last year she said maybe one line in it so I expected the same this year. All she told me beforehand was she needed a witch skirt and the day and time. I didn't even invite anyone to come see. I was so sad I didn't! I show up and the curtains part and Caidence is standing center stage with the microphone. She sang a solo and then was the lead in the play! She sang every song with the other groups, had lots of lines, and was not scared one bit! I asked her after why she didn't tell me she was the lead and she just smiled. She didn't even realize how amazing and difficult that is to learn all those lines and perform in front of a crowd. What a natural!

Photobomb!

Heater kids!

My kids take after me here (unfortunately) and love to sit on the heater! That means I always have 3 people fighting me over it.

But I figured out why Trey likes it so much. It's become his hiding place. For treasures. I cleaned out an entire alphabet of magnets that he'd pushed thru the slats, a drill bit, and some toys. 

Whenever he hears it starting to kick on, he races over to sit on it and beat the girls. 

Happy Halloween...finally!!

October has been one Halloween party after another. And in true Jordy fashion, she was a different character at each. She was a witch, Hello Kitty, Rapunzel. Pretty much whatever was clean and in reach, she'd put on. Caidence on the other hand knows what she wants to be months in advance. She's already starting to think of what she wants to be next year. Jordyn had her preschool Halloween party and parade Wednesday, Caidence had hers Thursday, and there was no school on Friday, actual Halloween day. It was perfect! We slept in, relaxed, and then partied all night. Caid traded us all of her candy for a Monster High doll. Jordyn looked up and down every aisle in the toy section, but nothing was worth trading her candy in.