Baby It's Cold Outside!!

Ben's for his big winter coat on getting ready for drop off at school...it was 18 degrees this morning!

Mommy and Anna playing with new Chirstmas toys called Bunchems.

Thanksgiving 2015

We had a great Thanksgiving!  First we celebrated with our TN family on Wednesday...I'm sad I don't have any pics but I was not feeling very well at all and I just sat on the couch list of the time and rested :(

Then we traveled to celebrate with our NC family for a few days. I actually didn't take these pics either but Mark and Uncle Dolph sent them to me. Good times with Grandaddy Dunn!!  He is loved by many kids, grandkids, and he he is with some of his great-grandchildren!!

Ben's First Lost Tooth!

Ben has lost his first tooth!!  It was loose all week, and he came home from school Friday and it was gone! He said it came out at lunch when he ate a "hard piece of chicken", and that it might be on the cafeteria floor, but he doesn't know. Haha!!  (What must the janitor think?!)

So, we left the Tooth Fairy a Butterfinger Bite piece of candy in liu of the tooth, and the next morning...Ben had two gold dollar coins!!

Cruising with Mickey and Friends!

Over Fall Break, we went on a Disney cruise with three other families from church. It was a super fun time, and the kids were over the moon to be on a cruise AND spend 5 days with their buddies!  Here are some of our favorite pictures:

Let's get on that plane!!

Our stateroom...

We had a group costume for all 15 of us one night and we were all Coca Cola bottles!  It was definitely the hit of the whole ship.

Family Pirate Night - Disney loves a Galloween celebration!

One of the highlights of the week for Anna: the night they put princess sheets on her bed!

Absolute highlight of the week for Ben:  one of several waterslides!

Ben's first time snorkeling...

I love this picture of Anna seeing Mickey come around the corner!

It was all so fun...we hope to go again one day!

Fall Times

Lots going on these days!  Last week, Ben had Farm Breakfast Day at school. They made grits, toast, cracked eggs, and made sausage patties all by themselves!  Then we all enjoyed a yummy feast.  For extra fun, everyone dressed up as a farmer.

Anna is excited about Halloween coming up and has been testing out her Elsa costume daily. She decided it didn't look so great with Mommy's boots.

Twice this month, Ben has gotten to read to a trained listening dog at the public library.  This was a nice dog named Toby.  Hopefully this will give Ben practice reading while helping him not be so anxious around dogs.

Saturday Fun

Well, we all went to the ETSU football game today, but it started raining halfway through the second quarter.  So we headed home and rested up for a friends birthday party. 

Here's Ben riding Patches the Pony!

And Anna on this cool swing called a Swurfer - you can stand up on it and act like you're surfing.

They had a ball jumping in the bounce house, decorating pumpkins, going on a scavenger hunt and just playing with their buddies!

Only 17 more days until...

...our Disney cruise!!  Ben and Anna are so excited, even though they only have an inkling of how much fun a cruise with Mickey and Minnie mouse and all the friends will be! We made this fun countdown calendar yesterday, and will take a link off the chain every day until the big day gets here.