Thanksgiving at Grandpa and Grandma's, putting up the tree and Reyonld's lights display

On Thanksgiving, we went to Grandpa and Grandma Lyons house. Grandma is such a wonderful cook! We had a feast indeed. Grandma always makes the dinner table so special and festive. We all ate on the holiday china as we always do. The boys brought their humor to the table as the hot topic at our house is always poop, why make this special day any different. My boys think that poop is the funniest word they know and they love to talk about it. Aunt Sarah made yummy cupcakes that Rogan couldn't get enough of! I made the pumpkin pies this year, they were yummy especially it being my first time making them. It was so nice having a small, close, intimate family Thanksgiving; we like nice and calm around here any day we can get it! On the ride home from Thanksgiving, we stopped by Reynolds farm equipment to see their lights! They are all hand made and just amazing, another tradition we do on our way home, as do many other families here in Fishers.

Marc surprised us and came home early on Tuesday so Grayson and I could go see 'The Muppets'!!! It was wonderful! I couldn't wait to go see it and Grayson as well. I think the adults loved it as much if not more than the kids in the theatre! At the end when they sang 'The Rainbow Connection' I thought I was going to cry because it brought up child hood memories of watching the show on Saturday evenings when I was little. Grayson asked me when it was over if we could go buy the movie he liked it so much! After we got home and had dinner, Grayson insisted (the night before Thanksgiving) we put up our tree. Our plan was to get a live tree but after Grayson discovered it couldn't be up early because it would lose all it's needles that idea was out the window. Besides, it's not very green to put up a live tree, after all we work so hard at our house to be green and make a small difference! So our tree is up and the house is ready for Christmas from loft to living room and every where in between! I enjoyed putting Grandma Callaway's Christmas beads on our tree, they look perfect. The boys love her bubble lights and are intrigued by them. We put those on our tree upstairs. Even our elf Neijel has arrived! Yea!!! We are ready for the Tea Room and train ride to see Santa at The State Museum, Jolly Days at The Children's Museum, Breakfast with Santa at Conner Prairie, and The Polar Express. I think that about covers every thing for the boys! Aunt Sarah also wants to take Grayson to Christmas at The Zoo!! I think we will have a great time celebrating the season and remembering what it is all about!! Let the celebrating begin!! Can't wait, we get as excited as our boys.

Children's Museum with Grandma and Mommy!!!

What fun! Rogan went to The Children's Museum all by himself with Grandma and Mommy! Yes, Rogan got a visit all to himself with his two favorite girls!! Jolly Days is just around the corner so the museum was all decorated for the season, even the Yule Slide was up but not available to ride down yet! Grayson went with Marc to see 'Puss in Boots", so I decided to take Rogan to the museum for a special day with him and we decided to see if Grandma would like to join in our fun! We are so glad she did. Rogan sure loves his Grandma as you can see on his face! We had to visit the dinos first and then head over to the trains and make our way to the underwater adventure with a new cool dig site the boys love. They also enjoy piecing together the soldiers as you can see Grandma and Rogan doing together! Next, we headed to Play Scape, so much fun! Rogan loved the sand table and the water table! Our last stop was the carousel on the fourth floor! Rogan loves to ride the carousel and this time he rode on one that goes up and down. Your not supposed to ride those until you are three and since Rogan will be three in February, Mommy broke the rule! Finally, we had lunch and headed home after much fun and excitement. Nap time was much needed after all that playing!

Trick or Treat, We are so Sweet!!! Give us something yummy to eat!

We had such a great time on Halloween. The night before, we carved our pumpkins from the pumpkin patch, what fun! Grayson's pumpkin was of 'Perry The Platypus' and Rogan's was a mummy!! Scary! We always enjoy our pumpkin carving as we dance and act silly to our spooky CD. My silly boys love to show off thier moves when ever an opportunity arrives. Grandpa and Grandma came over on Halloween to see the boys in their costumes and get some pictures along with the fun Halloween gifts they always bring the boys! They also handed out candy for us while we were out, which was nice because we now have lots of little one's around our neighborhood!

Grayson was dressed as a Ninja Turtle and Rogan was a Red Dragon as you can see from the photos. Everyone thought they were so cute. Grayson's friend Seth went with us also along with his father. Seth is the Power Ranger in the photo. The boys got so much candy we had to dump it out before we headed to the other side of our neighbor hood. Now that's a lot of candy. Our neighborhood always looks so fun and festive during Halloween. They boys got to visit for the first time, our wonderful neighbors behind us who are usually in Texas this time of the year spending the cold weather seasons in the warm sun. It was nice to get to see Lou and Christine this year but now they are off and on their way south for the next 5 months. One of our other neighbors was dressed up as a clown as seen from the photo, they also are retirees from Texas, very nice people!

Last week I helped out in Grayson's class and boy was that an adventure! We made silly putty with kindergartners!!! It was an experiment gone horribly wrong! Let me just say the silly putty did not set up and it was literally dripping from their hands onto the tables and their laps! What an adventure this had become and a gigantic mess to say the least. I am always up for fun crafts and we are always doing them here at The Mathias house but this was a whole other what I would call 'Mad Scientist' experiment out of control. Well, I made it through the morning not to mention I had a migraine the night before that I probably should have gone to ER for a shot to relieve the pain it was so intense, so it was a whirl wind of a day in Grayson's class but also a good laugh! I seem to have lots of those lately.

Counting down turkey day now! We are going to my parents and Iam making home made pumpkin pies from scratch...Yummy!!! Can't wait and we will also be going to the tree farm to pick out our Christmas tree! So much fun ahead, just can't wait for the Christmas Season!!! Our elf Neigel will be returning for the season next week too. He watches over the boys during the season and makes his nightly visits to the North Pole to report to the big man himself, Santa!!! I have already started playing my 'Peanuts/ Charlie Brown Christmas' CD. It is one of my many favorites! Gobble, Gobble!!! Until you wobble!!! Happy Thanksgiving!