Happy Thanksgiving

Ready to sit down and enjoy all that food.

 Sweet Potato Praline Casserole

(with pecans)

 the turkey is almost ready

 Glazed Carrots with Honey and Marjoram

 Roasted Green Beans and Radicchio with Garlic

 Enjoy

Getting Ready ....

 Cranberry sauce

 Cranberry relish

 pumpkin pie

 apple crisp

 stuffing

 and finally the bird

 still have few more things to make :)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!

It's the Fall !!!!

Last time I checked it was still fall in New England. Well if you were under the same impression, this is how it looked outside this morning.

My two girls are loving all the snow and are constantly asking if Santa came last night. Long way to go girls!!!

 As you can see the colors are beatiful this fall. Now they are covered with snow!!!

 Snow blankets on our tree.

 Neighbor's house across the road.

 The kids had a blast on the swing set. The slides were super fast.

 Officially we got 20 in of snow.

 We were without power for 20 hours and we are one of the few who got power back at this point. I hope everybody else is staying warm.

So where in the world did fall go!!!

Apple picking

It is that time of the year again. Apples are everywhere in New England and we are enjoying it as much as we can. Last weekend we headed up to one of our favorite apple orchards and spend the afternoon eating, picking apples.

 Jo ready for picking duty.

 Rest of my pickers.

Let's see who has the beast eating apple face.

Emma cannot wait to get her teeth into another apple while Nate looks more like he is about to attack the piece of fruit.

 My four super models. They are so good working with me when it comes to picture posing.

 Well sometimes they are not. Why should they be looking into the camera when there are more interesting things around.

 Emma tasting another piece.

 The boys.

 Apples everywhere. And Jo getting a boost from daddy to reach for the best of the best apples on the tree.

My cuties.

I love my girls. I do have fun with them (and some times we fight our battles) but for the most part my life is much more colorfull with them.

The joy of cherries

My kids fell in love with cherries this summer. For those of you outside of the US that for some reason cherries seem very expensive here. I grew up eating cherries all summer long and most of them were free since they grew on trees all over the place. Anyway this year I went ahead and paid something like $3.99 a pound and here are the results.

All of my kids fell in love with them and ever since they have been asking to get them each time we go grocery shopping.

Now when it comes to eating cherries my kids are well, see for yourself.

Let me assure you they ate cherries.

They had a bucket with water next to them and were not allowed to touch anything else until they washed properly.

Now, the only person that knows how to eat neatly in our family is Jo.

What a cutie. Do not get me wrong she is learning the piggy style from her siblings quickly. There are just some sorts of food she refuses to get messy with. And thank goodness cherries is one of those.

Cherries anyone?

We are alive ...

... and well. It has been crazy in our household for the last two months. First of all we started school (just started our 8th week) then tap and ballet dancing (girls) and soccer. Yep, our calendar looks insane some days. But we love it and enjoy most of the days. I have a few pictures to share from our busy schedules.

We have 3 kids on 3 different soccer teams this year. (Jo cannot wait to start in the spring.) That means 3 soccer practices and 3 - 5 games a week. There are times when I think we should just move to the soccer fields.

Emma is our scoring machine this year and her goal average is 4 goals a game at least.

Sorry no Nate's soccer pictures.

During the kids soccer practice we enjoy playgrounds which are close by and here are my girlies with Sam (their babysitter for the hour while mom and dad watch Nate's practice).

I am sure those cuties keep him busy.

Emma is quiet the monkey on monkey bars.

Everybody look at mommy (all but Sam).

Jo getting the hang of the climbing wall.

With her safety back up.

Sam to the rescue.

Emma helping Sam.

As you can see we are doing well and enjoying the fall in New England.