A Blackhawk Thanksgiving

Today was the annual Blackhawk Christian Preschool Thanksgiving Feast. The menu featured milk, four banana slices, three grapes, two strawberries, turkey, stuffing, a sugar cookie, one roll sans butter, carmel corn, popcorn, and cheese popcorn.

We ate with MelodyJoy's friends Bianca and Billie and their dads.

An Unseasonably Warm Day in November

Readin' with Grandpa and Playin' with PlayDoh

Grandpa Phillip and Grandma Deb are down for a quick visit this weekend. Last night, Melody showed them how she can play with PlayDoh and read Green Eggs and Ham.

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

I was on Facebook last night IM'ing with Jordan's girlfriend, Hillary, and thought that certain nosy family members from the West might be interested in seeing pictures of them so I lifted some from Hillary's Facebook pages to post here. I think these pictures are all from their mission trip to Serbia this summer.

Autumn Pictures

Melody's new dress from Old Navy.

Or is that an old dress from New Navy?

I'm so confused.

Melody's not so sure she's into trick-r-treating;

many costumes frighten her.

But she did her job handing out candy.

It's been pretty wet and rainy lately but Jeannette

managed to get at least one picture of

MelodyJoy in the leaves in our backyard.

Before, During and After

Phillip grew his hair out for his role as Professor Dante in Get Smart.
But he got a trim yesterday so he can be ready for his
senior pictures in a couple of weeks.

A Trim and Some Shopping

Yesterday, Jeannette took MelodyJoy for a haircut, which you can glimpse in these photos, and while they were out, they went to the pet store and Melody spent some of her birthday money on her very first pet, a beta fish.
She decided to name it "Fish." Jeannette thought we should find out how to say "red" or "fish" in Chinese and use that as a name (Red Fish would be pronounced hong yu) but Melody was not impressed with this idea.