I thought it was pretty bad when I was only updating my blog monthly...but look at me now, I'm updating seasonally!
This weekend we had the entire VK family together! This hasn't happened in years. Jon's brothers and their families from Califonia and Hawaii visited this weekend and so we were able to get everyone together for an early Thanksgiving celebration.
We also wanted to get a picture of all 22 grandkids with Grandma and Grandpa. I was laughing so hard while all of this was going on. There was always at least one kid crying, multiple kids looking away from the camera, kids running away (ahem...okay, it Owen that ran away), lots of moping (okay, it was Owen that was moping), and even some sweet smiles amongst all the chaos. This is just a quick (bad) snapshot that I took, as my sister-in-laws are the photographers in the family. Hopefully I can post a much nicer picture soon that they took:)
Some more snapshots from this weekend:
Caitlin was so happy to be able to spend some time with her youngest cousin, Koen, from California. She just loves babies so much! And he was such a good sport letting her carry him around everywhere.
Caitlin decorated some turkey cookies for our Thanksgiving party:
And from a couple of weeks ago...
Preparing for Halloween by carving pumpkins:
Caitlin designed and carved her very own pumpkin. I was very nervous she was going to cut her finger off, but she was VERY determined to do it all herself, so I just didn't watch. I'm proud to say she still has all her fingers.
Owen drew his design on the pumpkin and I carved it out, isn't it cute!? I'm pretty sure it was a self-portrait:
It was a rainy on Halloween, but we still went trick or treating and the kids did not mind the rain at all. Caitlin was a cowgirl:
And the boys were firemen. These are the only pictures I have, sorry they are so blurry.
Owen had a hat too, but it kept blowing off in the wind so we just gave up on it.
Checking out their stash at the end of the evening:
Warming up with some hot cocoa:
