November

   November is birthday crazy on both sides of our family.  In our family alone we have Luke's birthday on the 6th, Avery's on the 12th, and mine on the 25th.  For Luke's birthday we went to McDonald's and let the kids play at the play place for about an hour.  They loved it.  Avery's birthday we actually had Daryl's siblings and their family come over for a big early Thanksgiving and birthday celebration.  Our nephew Tyler's birthday was October 24th, our niece Avya's birthday is November 17th just like her dad.  We had a fantastic time.

   Thanksgiving we had a full house because everyone wanted to meet baby Ben, so Alex, Chris, Hudson, Nellie, Paul, and Reagan were here.  Unfortunately Daryl and I caught a pretty bad cold, and we were not as fun as we should have been.  My birthday was the Saturday after Thanksgiving and the kids had a great time because we spent another November birthday at McDonald's.  Daryl and I were still not feeling great, so we just decided to take the kids to the McDonald's so hopefully they would get tired and leave us alone.

Luke celebrating his third birthday at McDonald's.

Avery dressed up like Twilight Sparkle at Luke's birthday.

Luke in his birthday crown he got at preschool.

He loved his crown and wore it until it broke.

Avery on her ninth birthday.

All the kids roughhousing with Adam on Thanksgiving.

For my birthday I got a pedicure and manicure from Avery and Harper, so I had four colors of nail polish on.

Avya making some art.

Tyler and Avery blowing out their birthday candles.

Luke and Avya also got to blow out candles.

All the cousins except for a napping Hudson hanging out with Angie and Ben.

The cousins hanging out on the stairs.

A non silly photo.  Starting at the top: Logan, Emery, Reagan, Harper, Luke, Hudson, and Avery.

We recreated the picture of Hudson, Luke, and Logan that we took three years ago when they were babies.  The original photo is below.

Here's the original picture of Hudson, Luke, and Logan.

The girl cousins thought they needed their own picture too.