November '11

November brought tons of snow!  (we haven't had much since).  We got two major snow storms and the kids loved playing in it. 

 They got really creative!

We had Thanksgiving at my Mom and Dad's house again this year.  It was a quiet weekend, cause we were the only ones there!

While we were there, we went to see Santa. 

Erin and Devin had very specific things they were asking for.

Sean wanted nothing to do with Santa.

Colin wanted to ask Santa for things, but would not sit on his lap.  John happened to be sick the day we went to see Santa, so I had to hold Sean while helping Colin stand next to Santa and tell him what he wanted. It was comedy!  Sean was screaming, because he didn't like Santa, and Colin was whispering his requests.  This was a very good Santa!  He didn't seem to mind at all. 

  Grandma helped the big kids decorate a Gingerbread house too!  We had a great time there at Thanksgiving.

November 29th was Sean's 1st Birthday! 

 I can't believe my baby's 1!  He had a great day and was very pleased with his presents.

He grabbed the dinosaurs off his cake right away, and wondered why we were all singing.

At first, he didn't know what to do with this colorful thing in front of him.  When he touched it it made his hands sticky and he didn't like it. 

But when I gave him a taste of the frosting, he dug in!!!  He has a major sweet tooth now!

A week in the life of the Doyles

We have had a really busy week!!! I'll start at the beginning. Last weekend John and I went down to Las Vegas (leaving the kids with my Mom and Dad) to see U2 in concert! It was an amazing concert! The black eyed peas opened for them and played some of their best songs: I got a feeling, Where is the Love, big girls don't cry, Meet me half way etc.

During the intermission while they set up the stage, John went down to buy his Official Souvenir T-shirt. Then U2 came on. They were awesome! They started off slow with a lot of the oldies for the die hard fans. and then the show got better and better! Here is one of our favorites:

They also played With or without you, One, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Beautiful Day, etc. U2 alone played for over 2 hours! John was in heaven! He's an avid fan, as some of you know. We stayed with my brother Ryan that weekend. It was so nice not to have a schedule for kids, or an agenda of things to do. It was a nice relaxing weekend. We slept in, played Guitar Hero (for the first time ever) went out to eat, and went to a home show. Things I normally wouldn't do with kids. What a nice weekend. Thanks to my brother for hosting, and my Mom and Dad for watching the kids.

On Monday we carved our Halloween pumpkins.

Colin loved taking the seeds out of his.

Erin carved her own pumpkin this year! she did a great job!

Devin helped mark the pattern on his. and then John carved it for him. If you can't tell it's a skull with a spider web in it's head. He loved it!

I've seen a lot of snow in my days, but this is the first time I remember it snowing so much so early in the year. On Tuesday we had about 3 inches of snow!!!! Devin thought is was great!

He insisted that we get out the coats and gloves and hats and out he went to play. That snow stuck around too for almost 3 days! It's been so cold!!!!

Tuesday night was our Ward Halloween party. We had a soup potluck, a costume parade, games in the classrooms, and trunk-or-treating (inside, cause it was freezing outside!!!). It was a great party and there were so many people there, they were setting up more tables as people arrived.

On Friday, Erin had a Costume parade at her school at 8:45 and then I had to get Devin to his school in his costume for his class party at 9:15. What a busy morning. We made it to everything though. Costumes, treats and everthing.

Now tonight we get to go trick-or-treating too. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures and post them soon. Happy Halloween everyone!!!

Snowy Days

We've been having a lot of snow lately and one of the kid's favorite things to do is bundle up and go outside to play.

Of course sometimes one person's play is another person's misery.