November Fun

November was a great month full of birthdays, family time, and the start of the holiday season!

Daddy's Birthday Party with Ella (on the actual day)

I had a meeting, so I left him with a decorated table, pizza, a nothing-bundt-cake and candle, party hats, and a toddler who loves to sing Happy Birthday :)

We went out to Dublin to spend time with Grandma on her birthday the next day.

Grandma's Birthday!

And the following weekend we went out to celebrate both birthday people with family, BBQ, and chocolate cake!  

Everett met Ryan!

Family of Four- Happy Birthday Chris!

Action Shot!

He sat so contently with Grandma Barbie for a long time.
Precious moments :)

Uncle Tim, Auntie Megan, & the Kiddos-- apparently all wearing stripes. Ha!

A week later Uncle Jeff came to meet Everett and spend the weekend with us. We had a lot of fun hanging out it Burlingame, walking to breakfast and the park near home, and walking around the Sawyer Camp Trail. Some of the best time we spent together was just hanging around the house, though. Ella followed him everywhere, and they played all day while he was here. Books, play dough, puzzles, backyard play, snuggles on the couch... it was a special visit.

Ella's Buddy Uncle Jeff
We've been pretend talking to him on the phone and taking make-believe visits on airplanes to see him since!

Thanksgiving 2014

Group Shot with the Fam

Cheers!

This year marked Everett's first Thanksgiving and Ella's first Thanksgiving as a sous chef (a.k.a. taster, pouring assistant, and stir-master). He enjoyed a lot of family snuggles, and she had fun helping, playing, dancing, and eating.

Ella was the apple tester when we made a huge apple crisp the day before Thanksgiving.
Here she's enjoying the fruits of her labor on Thanksgiving night. Yum!

Looking like a turkey...

on his first Turkey Day.

The first of many times these boys have fun together on a holiday...