Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving this year at our house with Sydney's Nana and Grampa as well as Uncle Matthew and Aunt Katie.  Her MeMe, Pops, and Uncle Brent stopped by for a bit as well.  We had a nice, relaxing day, and enjoyed celebrating a day of giving thanks for the many blessings we have.

Table

What a cute turkey!

Turkey butt

Happy Thanksgiving!

Raleigh Christmas Parade

This year we took Sydney to the Raleigh Christmas Parade.  Sydney absolutely loved it!  She enjoyed watching the floats, the couple of balloons, cars, motorcycles, horses, dogs,  marching bands, and of course Santa.  We had a great spot to watch, although we had to hold Sydney the whole time.  We didn't think she would make it the entire time, but she did...she wanted to wait to see Santa!

Let's go to the parade!

Checking out the marching band

With Uncle Brent

Cheesy grin

Kermit balloon

Nutcracker balloon

Good view from up there!

Happy Halloween!

It's no big secret that Halloween is kind of a big deal in our house.  I think Blake might even say it is his favorite holiday.  So needless to say, the month of October was filled with pumpkins, costumes, candy, and a couple ghosts and goblins.  Just around the corner from us is a great produce store which has pumpkins and a corn maze during October.  While we didn't do the corn maze since we figured Sydney didn't have the attention span/interest this year, they also have some cool activites for the little ones like a hay ride, play equipment and corn crib.  Sydney's favorite was picking out pumpkins!

On Halloween, we carved our pumpkins.  It was freezing, so I bundled Sydney up and then put one of Blake's t-shirts on her to keep her clothes clean of all the pumpkin goop.  Well, that was a waste, and I should have known it.  She was intrigued with watching us carve, but she wanted no active part.  I shouldn't have been surprised, the girl hates being dirty!

We started asking Sydney pretty early on what she wanted to dress up as for Halloween.  She immediately said a "T-rex".  I wasn't sure if her two year old mind would change frequently, but she kept saying T-rex for a couple of weeks so we finally ended up buying her a dinosaur costume.  She didn't love the hat piece, but she made the cutest T-rex ever, in my humblest of opinions. 

Sophie- also dressed as a dinosaur, per Sydney's request of course!

Trick-or-treating was especially fun this year.  Sydney caught on real quick that getting candy is a lot of fun.  We heard "wanna get more candy" frequently.  I bet we went to about 10 houses, and she walked and carried her candy bag the entire time.  It was definitely a fun time!