Halloween

Happy Halloween! We had a great time at our neighborhood block party and got a little trick-or-treating in before the rain came. We ran out of candy despite the rain, I have never seen so many kids out trick-or-treating! Now we get to eat LOTS of candy!

Christmas 2008 in pictures

Christmas Eve Conversations with Brandon

Brandon: "Mom, what's your Maiden name?"

Me: "Why do you want to know that?"

Brandon: "I don't know, just wondering."

Me: "That sounds like you are trying do something you are not supposed to."

Brandon: "SIGH (of disbelief)....oh man, I wanted to order something online."

Gingerbread Traditions

On our first official day of Christmas vacation, we put Lauryn down for a nap and got very busy and messy decorating Gingerbread houses. I had pre-assembled them the night before, so they were set and ready to go!

Each boy had their own house, can of frosting, plate full of candy and some decorating bottles to use in their creations.

As per usual, Jared was quite strategic about how he decorated...

And look who else has a sweet tooth in the family...

Bran had more frosting on the table and his shirt than he did on his house!

Brotherly love...can't get any sweeter!

Brandon's house

Jared's house

Caught you!!

Brandon's finished product!

Jared is so proud of his house!

Now we have beautiful Christmas centerpieces-and Whiskers has been trying to eat them ever since!

Elfed!

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Gingerbread house party

I had the opportunity to go visit Jared at school during his class Gingerbread house party! Each kid had quite a set-up...a bag of candy, can of frosting, and every imaginable trim you could think of!

Here he is with his finished product! He is so proud of his creative work!

Believe it or not, they really didn't eat much of the candy that day...

A sampling of houses from the class. Its pretty obvious which ones were decorated by the girls and by the boys! MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!

Thanksgiving Play

Long overdue, I know...but I finally loaded the pictures from Bran's Thanksgiving play. He was a pilgrim boy, and he was very cute!





Yup, that's him behind the big Indian headdress--where else would the shortest kid in first grade be standing?

Now that's better...he' s the second pilgrim from the left and he even is smiling! We are so proud of you, lil pilgrim!!

Holiday Traditions

What would the holidays be without a trip to the after-hours sick clinic... Jared started feeling lousy last night as we were walking into the movies and was burning up. I tried to take him home but he wouldn't hear of it. After a night of chills and fever and sore throat, Greg took him in this morning and he has Strep Throat. Last time we had Strep in the house was when I was in the hospital having Lauryn and Brandon came down with it. Its always something!!!

Happy Thanksgiving from the Falzone Kids

This is Jared's artwork he brought home yesterday. He explained that the item on the right is a giant oven for the turkey to be cooked in!

Jared's list of things to be thankful are: ME (him), every sport there is, trees, Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, equipment, school, CDS, USA Navy, God, spiders and Jesus.

Brandon's list of things to be thankful are: Earth, Life, dad, mom, cats, me (him), sister, God, birds, trees, Squanto, Sun, Moon, Mars, and Jupiter.

We are all thankful for family, friends, health, Jesus and all our many blessings! Love you all!