Beck Family Portraits

Back in October the Beck family had portraits done. (The whole family above)

What a cute bunch!!

I love December!!!

My favorite time of year is here!!! I LOVE December!! It's cool (kind of) it's cozy and it's fun!! We spent some time at the lake house a few weeks ago and enjoyed the crisp weather. The boys had a good time playing out in the "cold".

We had a fire outside and made hot chocolate. It was so good the boys asked for two more cups!!

The following week I had my white elephant gift exchange with my mom's group. I was the lucky winner of a lantern that spins and shows pictures.

I joked with the other moms that it wasn't really fair because my kids were ACTUALLY going to REALLY enjoy it. I told them that this kind of thing was entertainment around the Beck house. Sure enough the boys had a great time just watching.

The following weekend we went to a birthday party at a fire station!!

Our freind Caden turned 4 and had a party at the local fire station where his dad works. It was SO FUN!!

The boys got to get up in the fire trucks and turn on the sirens.

Caden also had a firetruck pinata.

They had a great time!

THE BEST part about the begining of December is when we get to decorate the HOUSE!!! I love putting up the tree. This year we got to do the outside too!!! More pics to come..............

Thanksgiving

Hooray for our first Thanksgiving back in Texas!!! The weather was amazing!!!

We had Jeff's family to our house this year and had a great time watching the kids play. All the little boys had a great time bouncing around.

Granny, we love her!!

The crew doing what they do best, hanging in the yard.

My first turkey!!! It turned out great. I was so proud of myself!!

Jeff doing his job

The spread. We had potatoes of all kinds, rolls, turkey, ham, you name it!!

The kid's table: (Clockwise) Henry, Reed, Grant, and Zack

My Table

Who's hungry???

So Grant LOVES to sing his books. It's really funny because he CANNOT carry a tune. Here he is singing about his elephant book. :)

Halloween 2K10!!

On Friday before Halloween we went to the boys' school for their halloween parade. (Grant the Monkey)

Here's Reed in his class behind Mario.

Grant's Class under the halloween arch.

Grant's Class again.

Then it was off to the lake for halloween weekend. We had Jeff's WHOLE family up for the weekend to take family portraits. The boys got to love on baby Ian. (video at the bottom)

We also spent some time carving pumpkins. By "we" I mean Jeff and Aunt Karen.

Those kiddos hard at work on their pumpkins.

Grant kept trying to scoop the insides back INTO the pumpkin.

Reed would say "Ewww, yuck" when he got it on his fingers.

Great Grandpa Jess came out to watch for a few minutes.

Reed and his Jack-o-Lantern

Grant and his fun Jack-o-lantern.

My guys

Back home on Sunday night we got ready to go trick or treating and to have lots of kids come to our house too. When the first ones rang the bell the boys didn't know what to do. It was really cute. :)

Reed all ready to go.

My monkeys (Grant left Reed Right)

All set (Grant Left Reed Right)

Our good friends the Bunton's came over to go with us. Natalie is a friend of mine from high school. She brought her little guy William and her little girl Allie. Here's Reed with William.

Jeff stayed behind to hand out candy.

Natalie brought glow in the dark necklaces for us to wear. Safety first

Allie the cat and Reed ready to go.

We had a blast. Can't wait for next year.

****PuMpKiN pAtChEs****

Jeff was on call last weekend so we had to stay in town :( While we were out running errands we got the boys their first batch of play dough and tools. They LOVE it! (Reed)

They have tools, cutters, and tons of colors. What's funny is that the tools all seem to be the same ones that Jeff and I had when we were little. Guess not much has changed in the way of play dough in the last 20 years.

On Sunday we went to a local Christmas Tree Farm/Pumpkin Patch with Grangie and G-pa.

They had games, pumpkins, "train" rides, food, and FUN!! We had a great time looking at all the pumpkins.

Look at all that orange. NO, those are not the shirts from last year. What kind of mother would do that?

They also had bounce houses. The boys LOVED climbing up and sliding down.

They had to be talked into it the first time but then we couldn't keep them off it. :)

The "train" was a set of cars the kind of looked like colored train cars being pulled by a tractor. Didn't matter to the boys though. They had a blast.

There were also lots of stations set up for photo opp. I liked that part the best.

On Tuesday we went with our Mom's Group to another local patch to pick out our pumpkins. Don't they look happy!!!

The boys found several that they though would make a good Jack-O-Lantern. We are off to the lake to spend some quality time with ALL the Beck's. We are also going to carve our pumpkins in prep. for Halloween!!

So get ready to see lots of pictures of Monkeys and Jack-o-lanterns!!