Thanksgiving

We all hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving yesterday. Ours went quite well. In the morning everyone played outside in the snow. Mya made a big snow man all by herself, and Avonlea had a "snow baby" that she carried all over the yard. Essentially it was a snowball. Marshal made a fort while the girls made snow angels. During the afternoon, Jeni and Mya started making dinner and everyone else watched some Thanksgiving and Christmas videos. The kids especially like Garfield's Thanksgiving Special.

Dinner turned out great, and everyone enjoyed everything. This morning Jeni got up to teach her early morning yoga class and then did a little shopping. Dave started making Mya's reindeer costume for her school play coming up in a few weeks. The kids are outside playing and enjoying their time off from school.

Mya's Haircut

Mya got her hair cut this past week. It was the first time in about 2 years that she had it cut. Of course, she wanted to donate the cut off pieces to Locks of Love. In total they cut off 11 inches. We all think her new hair cut is quite cute.

We had our first real snow of the season last night. About 4 inches fell at our place, so the kids had lots of fun today playing in the snow. Avonlea loved it and spent almost 2 hours playing outside. We are all getting ready for Thanksgiving. Jeni has the turkey defrosting out in the garage and the kids are looking forward to spending time at home with the family.

New Fish

We got some new fish for our little fish tank this weekend. We got a silver Molly named Captain Snowball and an orange Platty named Sunny. Unfortunately, Sunny has already passed on, but Petsmart will give us a new one. Jeni will be getting a new fish this Tuesday. The kids love the fish, especially Avonlea.

We are all doing great!

Campout last month

Before it got cold, our family went camping last month. I was going through the pictures today on the computer and found a few fun ones to share. We went to Long Lake, which is about a half hour southeast of Fond du Lac. Marshal and Mya had a lot of fun climbing up in the trees, and Avonlea had fun making fish faces. Actually there was a tree with a nice low branch that we would let her sit on. The weather was relatively warm, so we all had a good time.

Today Jeni is off at Womens Conference but will be back in a couple of hours. The kids have been playing inside today because it is cold and damp outside. We had a little snow on the ground this morning but it all melted.

Quick Family Update

Just a quick family update. Dave has been over in Minnesota this week working, but is back now for a couple days. He has to go over on Sunday and Monday to finish the job. Jeni is getting ready to go to a bi-stake church women's conference this weekend. She has meetings tomorrow night in Neenah and in Green Bay in Saturday. Dave cashed in some free hotel points so Jeni will be staying in Green Bay Friday night with another branch member.

The kids are doing good this week. It was warm so all of them have spent a lot of time outside. Tomorrow, however, it is supposed to snow (but not stick to the ground). So goodbye Indian Summer, hello winter.

We will have to post some more pictures soon. Need to unload the rest of the pictures off of the camera.

Welcome to our family blog

Hello everyone. Welcome to Dave and Jeni's blog page. We decided to do a blog as a way for others to keep track of what we are doing as a family. We will try to update this on a regular basis with pictures and events of our family.

We had a fun week this past week with several Halloween activities. Here are some fun pictures of our family. Jeni and Mya are pictured together with their friends Kate and Lauren at the branch Halloween party. Each of the kids are showing off their haul of candy. And we have pictures of us trick or treating with Becca and Austin from down the street.

The kids had fun trick or treating despite cold temperatures and drizzle. Marshal loved the haunted maze at the branch Halloween party and got to work as one of the "grabbers". Believe it or not, they have a ton of candy left. They mostly like to just lay it out and look at it.

Dave and Jeni are doing fine. Jeni taught a lot of fitness classes this this past week and got through the primary program at church. She has 3 callings now (primary chorister, primary secretary, and RS enrichment leader). Dave has been busy at work and had a major breakthrough in the world of whey.