Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We hope everyone enjoyed the holiday with some good company and yummy food, we sure did. We have much to be thankful for and we are hoping to keep this spirit of thanks in our minds all year round. On a not so happy note, our camera is broken so no pictures of the festivities, hope to figure out the problem soon.

Seems like we've been busy these past few weeks. Kaine is in cub scouts and basketball, my parents have come to visit a few weekends, our doors have FINALLY been painted and most are up with new hardware, we've begun to paint the hallway, not to mention Lilia's never ending adventures :) Here's some misc pictures from among the chaos.

Grandma and Grandpa Westover and the kiddies

Roseola outbreak

Poor baby, it was no fun.

Grandma Tami and Lilia at Kaine's basketball game

Kaine warming up for his game,I would include more pictures of the basketball experience but the lighting is bad in the gym for picture taking:(

Lilia and the chip event....Dad left his giant bad of salt and pepper chips out, I hadn't see them, but Lilia went to town while I was in the shower one morning.

Salt and pepper all over her face

Kaine just being Kaine

Another good bonk on the head, the bump looked like a heart, I hope we start to get less bonks soon.

Cub Scouts

This picture pretty much sums up Kaine as a cub scout :)

Kaine joined cub scouts about two months ago, because of his age he is at the Bear status. So far he has had a blast building a rubber band powered spaceship, making a Native American drum, learning how to fold an American flag, and preforming in an official boy scout flag ceremony in honor of Veteran's Day. I was just asked this last week to be a den mother over wolves and bears.... I'll keep you posted this should be exciting.

Kaine and I in our uniforms.... I didn't realize how many badges a uniform had until I had to put them on. On another note notice the fresh coat of paint on the wall and door and new hardware.

Proud Dad and cub scout

Tricks and Treats

The best family photo we could muster... I know

Happy Halloween. Our weekend has been full of treats and not so many tricks, but we aren't complaining! Let's see my parents came to stay for the weekend, Kaine's basketball team won their first game this season, we went to a harvest party, oh yeah and of course trick or treating!

Mommy and the little pink poodle

Our big scary vampire, who ate a little too much candy flavored blood :)

Playing at the harvest party

Car ride to the harvest party, not so fun

Trick or Treat

Grandma and Lilia at the harvest party

The cake walk for the 15th time and not a single cake was won :(
But Lilia LOVED the music.

Kaine doing the turkey bowl. He just about took out those cabinets in the back with the frozen 8 lb turkey. The harvest party was a blast!

I love this picture of Kaine :)

Our old neighbors stopped by, Ella, Lilia's friend was another pink poodle! They were too cute together.

A happy Daddy and a happy Baby.

Finishing up with some warm taco soup, Kaine's favorite, before a vampire movie and candy.

Goodbye Garden... Hello Rain

We said goodbye to our garden last week when we picked the last vegetable, which happened to be Lilia's favorite a green pepper. We spent the weekend raking leaves from our many trees, cleaning the pine needles out of our gutters, spraying down for spiders, and hunkering down for the rainy season. And it's a good thing we did, it rained all last week! Lilia got to break in her new rain boots Grandma Tami got her, while Kaine enjoyed trying to teacher her how to splash in the puddles.

Matt up on the roof cleaning out the needles from our four big pines!

The last vegetable of the season


At least she enjoyed it!


Rain rain go away...


Nothing like rain boots when you are a kid.