November Fun

Yep. I'm a bit behind on blogging. Big time behind. 

Here's a little bit of what we did in November!

We had a small party for Camri's birthday. I couldn't deal with a big fiasco, so I told Cam she could invite 5 friends for cake and ice cream. She wanted a "Dora the Explorer" party, so that's what I went with. :)

 Steve took the girls to the gym in the morning so I could decorate to surprise Camri. When she got home she was so happy to see the decorations and balloons. I love how easy it is to enchant her. She was thrilled with a few balloons and some streamers. 

 The girls made "Dora" necklaces and "Explorer" hats. 

 I had to stop for a minute and snuggle Capri. She was getting a little jealous over the attention the birthday girl was getting. I love this little munchkin'. 

 Mommy and Camri

Thanks to everyone who came and made her birthday special. I wish I could've thrown a huge party with everyone invited, but this year it wasn't plausible. Maybe next year. :)

Right after Camri's party we made the trip to Irmo, South Carolina to see Aunt Jana and Uncle Nick. It was about a seven hour drive with stops, but it was well worth all the fun we had. It was so much fun to spend Thanksgiving with family. Camri absolutely loves her cousins and had a ball with the boys. Capri loved chasing the twin baby boys and trying to keep up with the big kids.  Daddy spent his time studying and hanging with the fellas's. Mommy helped aunt Jana with Thanksgiving dinner (though not much!), and afterwards we went Black Friday shopping. Talk about crazy! But, we got everything we wanted, saw some entertaining fights over electronics, saved a ton of green,  and had a grand time freezing our butts off outside of Target. Thanks again, Jana for taking me with you to brave the craziness! 

Here the kids are decorating gingerbread houses after dinner.

On Friday, we went to the most amazing zoo with everyone. It was easily the best zoo I've ever seen!

Notice Camri is wearing Kyle's shirt? Ya, it was so warm on the day we went that she was miserable in her long sleeve shirts I'd packed her. I've never felt such a lovely, warm Thanksgiving weekend. I doubt we'll be enjoying the fall weather like that in Colorado. ;)

 Camri loves Tigers, so of course she seized the opportunity to ride this one.

 Camri and Mommy being silly

 Camri and Kyle feeding the birds.

 They had a rock wall for the kids to climb on, and I thought Camri would be too scared to climb, but boy was I WRONG! She loved it. She climbed as far as I dared let her and loved every minute of it!

 She climbed all the way up in princess shoes. 

 Getting her down was a little trickier than getting her up. She looked at us like we were nuts when we told her to "just let go". She was scared for a minute, but gave in and came down.

 It sounds silly, but Steve and I were really proud of her. She is an amazing, brave, fun little girl. 

 Yep, this awesome zoo had pony rides too. Camri was in heaven. She loves riding ponies. 

 Here Capri is trying to feed her fingers to the goats. It made me so nervous how she was putting her arms in trying to get a grab at the animals. We had to really watch her... 

 Love these crazy girls...

 We'd arranged with aunt Jana to have a tea party (with all 5 BOY cousins, no less.) and sure enough they all had a great time drinking "tea" (orange juice) and eating sweets. 

Cam couldn't get enough of her cousin Tyler. They were inseparable the entire trip. She still asks to go to "Tyler's house" to play. We'll sure miss being a drive away from these guys! 

That's pretty much all we did in November. Hopefully I'll get some pictures up from December before January!