Thanksgiving 2014

We had a wonderful time seeing family in Virginia. It was Brian and Marykate's first Thanksgiving as a married couple, and a wonderful chance for all of us to be together. The girls loved being with their cousins and having an ongoing sleepover with their cousin Jasmine, while Chris and I slept amazingly in what we call the "sleep study" guestroom downstairs!

Terrill took the kids to the Air and Space Museum:

And the rest of us stayed home and enjoyed looking out at the snow!

Halloween 2014

Halloween, my least favorite holiday. Really. It was redeemed somewhat by the extreme cuteness of Fer's M&M and Wendy's Orange Witch costumes, but still, a holiday that focuses on enormous amounts of sugar aka poison and has fear as a theme is never going to be my favorite. Fer for the first time went off with her friends to trick or treat and she really enjoyed doing that. Wendy continued the tradition of going to the costume contest in town, followed by pizza with our neighbors and then trick or treating near our house. Both girls enjoyed the unlimited candy consumption policy of the weekend following Halloween, and then were pretty amazingly cooperative selecting out their favorites to consume over time while donating the rest to Parkside's service project. Onwards to Thanksgiving, thank God.