Thanksgiving in Minot

We made the long drive up to North Dakota for Thanksgiving week. It was so fun to be able to spend so much time with my brother and his family. They got a lot of snow, so of course a snow fort was built. I didn't help at all with it, so I can't take any credit. It's pretty awesome huh? I thought making a face was an excellent touch!

We had such a large amount of food that we all wanted to make that we decided to make a Thanksgiving meal a couple different times that week. We ate VERY well. :) We had a lot of awesome leftovers.

My dad (a.k.a. Papa) and Lydia

My brother Ryan, Derek, and my Dad. They all took the opportunity of being on vacation for a week to grow goatees. Derek had almost a week head start on the other two. They all looked pretty studly I think. :)

My girly girl!

This is a pretty typical day for Lydia. She loves to get all dressed up and wear "princess dresses." These 4 pictures were taken in probably November. I'm sorry this first one is sideways... I don't know why it did that.

Lydia's hair has officially become long enough for french braids. This was my first attempt at it, and if she'd sit still long enough, I'd do it everyday. She looks so grown up. :( (she has also begun smiling on command, as you can see. hehe.)

Going back a few months :)

Halloween!! So here we have Hans Solo and a pregnant Princess Leia. :)

Lydia is helping me clean out the pumpkin. We used this pumpkin to make some yummy cupcakes.

Our camera was dead on Halloween, so I didn't get any pictures of Lydia in her costume that day, sadly. I actually finally got her back in her costume in December to make sure we got a few pics. You can kind of see part of Christmas tree back there. hehe. In case you can't tell, she was a lady bug.

Time to play catch up...

I've recently (finally) organized all my pictures into their appropriate folders on my computer and so I am going to post about some things that I've neglected for the last few months. I'm going to try to post on here more often, because I would like it to double as a journal. So I'm gonna get crackin' :)