Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!  We celebrated Thanksgiving on Saturday with coworkers here.  We had a great time and lots of yummy food!  We had a great time of worship and thanksgiving together.

I am so thankful for my three wonderful guys! 

Thankful

Thankful....

Thankful that even though I was up from 2:30-5 with a sick little boy, Ben, he is now playing in his room happily.

Thankful that I have a washing machine to wash the loads of laundry from multiple bed changes and pj changes last night, along with the two pairs of pants from blow outs this morning.

Thankful that I get to stay at home with my boys and even get to blog a little while they have room time together.

Thankful for the candle that a sweet friend sent that is making my house smell like fall and not throw up and dirty diapers!

Thankful for very healthy boys in the scheme of things.

Thankful that we as a family are memorizing a verse together, 1 Thess. 5:18, "In everything give thanks" and that my sweet little Ben said the verse by himself two nights ago!  So much to be thankful for and thankful for a God who loves me enough to remind to be thankful in everything!

"My ShoSho"

As a 2 year old ownership is everything to Ben.  Everything is mine, mine, mine and we are working on that but everywhere we went Ben introduced ShoSho to as "my ShoSho"!   It was so sweet and heartmelting.  Oh, I wish all of our family was closer!

We went to a local grocery store to pick up some English Muffins and in the process we past the cake mixes.  From the stroller Ben saw a Thomas the train cupcake mix complete with icing and edible stickers.  We bought it and it made for a really fun afternoon treat!  He was so fascinated wit the train stickers and train sprinkles!

Nate was asleep for most of the activity but woke up in time to eat a cupcake!

We went to Adventureland twice while mom was hear for the boys to play.  So thankful for this great place, just wish a Chick-Fil-A was attached to it!

Yoghurt is a full body experience for Nate!

Ben with his bike.  His friend Wyatt grew out of this bike and very generously gave Ben this one.  He loves it!  He was showing off for ShoSho.

Nate wants to be a part of the bike fun too!  So, he wears that hat around the house!

The craziness that is Tuesday mornings!

I took mom to my tuesday morning play group!  She was amazed by the craziness.  In all fairness, it was a little crazier than normal because the weather has been "rubbish" as they like to say.  Ben has found a little girlfriend.  She comes with her Aunt and Uncle and they stay late to help clean up with us, so they have gotten to know each other.  It is pretty cute!

Mom trying to wrangle Nate while he eats his biscuit aka cookie.

My sweet boys!  Ben wanted to try on the Fairy wings because his little girlfriend likes to wear them.  He quickly switched to a police uniform. 

Nutfield Priory

On Sunday, Allen and I went away to the Nutfield Priory for the night!  It was amazing!  Thank you mom!!  Such a treat to get some time away to relax and be together.  The Priory is only about 5 minutes away which was nice.  Sunday night we went to a pub that we had heard great things about.  The food was really yummy and just a fun little place called the Home Cottage.  Then on Monday, we explored three little villages near here.  They all had a couple of fun shops and antique stores that I had been curious about but didn't dare take my two little ones into with a stroller.

Monday for lunch we checked out another pub, not the greatest...but now we know.  And to finish off the day, we were totally pampered back at the hotel with massages!  What a treat!  We were in the process of moving and settling in for our anniversary, so this felt a little like a belated 8th Anniversary get-away.  THANK YOU MOM!!! 

Mom's Visit

Wow, I can't believe that my mom leaves tomorrow morning!  We have had a great 10 days with her and how time flies!  She has worked hard on all sorts of projects for me while she has been here.  I will post pictures...it is so nice to have all my little to do's off of the list and finally be done with getting our house set up!  Thanks mom for all your help!

She and the boys made binoculars one day.  The boys loved them!  Ben saw all sorts of things through his "noculars", like dinasaurs and planes and race cars.  All his favorite things. 

Sunday on our walk to church we were greeted by neat antique cars.  They were having an antique car "race" from London to Brighton.  Really neat!

Heaven

One of the great things about living here is there are tons of places for moms to go with their kids.  The week before my mom came, I met a friend and her two kids at a place called Heaven.  It is a great big room with tons of toys and big leather couches.  The kids can play and there are people that come around asking if you would like anything to eat and drink.  So, I had a yummy cappuccino while my kids explored all kinds of toys.  It was awesome!  Upstairs is a spa and nursery where you can put your kids into while you get a treatment!  The boys loved all the new toys and playing with their friends.

These are our two Benjamins.  Love how their hair is just soo beautiful and different!

My sweet friend Kat!