Thanksgiving and the Snow

Well, another Thanksgiving has come and gone. And we spent the majority of our day doing this:

It's kind of a dark picture, so if you can't tell that's Nate asleep behind me and Zoe asleep on top of me. I'm pretty sure D'Jayden was curled up on the lazy boy next to us. It was a wonderful holiday! Good food, family, and football! Best holiday ever! We could all use more holidays just like it: more excuses to take 4 day weekends. It was wonderful!

Then it all came crashing down on us like the snow usually does, never can it ease us into the transition from Fall to Winter, it just dumps. These pictures don't do it justice because this was after it snowed the first time and it's snowed multiple times since then. My calf high boots are no longer tall enough.

Nate shoveling, all the time. Think of this with about 8 more inches and you'll get this morning. Then after it dumps on us, it drops to about 9 degrees as the high for six or seven days in a row. Put on some extra pants and a couple pairs of gloves and I'm good to go! Lucky for me I have my brand new jeggings. Yes, I bought them.

And just had to share this because who can resist this face? I know I can't!

Especially not when I go to leave and she runs almost outside in the freezing, all wet in a towel just out of the tub to give me a hug before I go. What would I do without her?!

Hope everyone is getting into the holiday spirit! I will be in about 2 weeks and 5 days!

Halloween Party

Okay, so I know this is like three weeks late, but we're busy people. What do you want from me? So for Halloween this year, our nephew had his first Halloween walk at his kindergarten! I wasn't able to go, but Nate went and took some great pics. And of course, if D'Jayden does, Zoe must follow and so she got all dressed up and was so excited to be a part of it!

 Our little chicken! (And yes, that is a KFC bucket on her head...)

She wandered around trying to sound like a chicken, but it mostly sounded like a duck, but it was still cute!

D'Jayden's costume! He went as, and I quote: "The mean guy from Princess and the Frog."

He generally refers to all villans, bad guys, or people that are not nice as mean guys. Zoe agrees.

A few days later we went to a fun Halloween Party, my first since probably high school, and the first time I'd dressed up since I was like 12. (Needless to say, and you can see our previous post...we're not fans of Halloween. I'm one of those people that don't dress up and leave all the lights off at my house or just leave so that kids won't come begging for candy. This could be because we don't have any kids, but we'll see...)But this year, we made the effort, although it was a little lost on the crowd seeing as how the main goal of dressing up as such decided to go to Disneyland for Halloween instead...

I know you've all been dying to see our costumes...I know it's consumed you, so I will relieve your stress...

Behold, the APX couple. Just know that we sure didn't do this to offend anyone, we just wanted to make fun of the funny stuff we think people do. Please note my pregnant-ness, with the leggings, oh yeah, with glitter, and a mini-skirt. Please note Nate holding the RockStar energy drinks (which he did drink, but totally made him sick). Also, though you can't smell it here, he was wearing about 7 gallons of cologne...everyone could smell it...My hair had been much bigger, but my hair doesn't stay like that so it fell...

 This is Nate totally signing Obama. Yes, he's THAT good.

This is Nate...holding a baby. Haha. This is our friend's little guy Oaklen who was dressed up as an owl. So cute! Such a good costume Lauren!

Happy Halloween! And now we can concentrate on the really important holiday of the year. Thanksgiving.