Thankful

It has been a fun but long few weeks around here. We have had lots of family in town but also lots of sick kids. 

First the good. Our niece had her first baby 2 weeks ago. The kids are in love and just wanted to hold her. Hayden is so tiny; she's smaller than Beck was when he was born. I was most surprised how much Beck wanted to hold her, but he didn't want to give her up. Camden was sick, so he didn't get to hold her until he was better a week later. 

 This year for Thanksgiving we hosted and had Grandma and Grandpa Arrington over to eat. I have to say I was pretty nervous to cook a whole turkey, but with a lot of help from Brad, it turned out great. We had lots of good food to eat. 

The day wasn't just filled with lots of good food, but we played games as well. We started a family Heros game (it's a fun game on the computer).

 Emery made a game up as well. She called it Turkey Touchdown. I'm not sure any of us understood how to actually play the game, but she loved that we all played her game. 

We also taught Grandma and Grandpa to play Ticket to Ride. After games we went and the "The Star". It was a pretty cute movie that all of the kids loved. 

For the not so fun part of the week, every kid got sick. It started before Thanksgiving break with Camden. Next came Beck then Jacks then Emery. Even today when the kids should be going to school, Emery and Jacks are home sick. Brad and I have yet to get it. We are just waiting for our turn. Maybe we got lucky and it wont hit us. 

Beck's Play

 As I mentioned Beck was doing a school drama presentation of "The Miracle Worker", and this past week they had 3 performances. He was 'man voice' and had 2 lines, but he delivered them perfectly. The play wasn't too bad for a Jr. High play. We just like that he has found something he likes to do and hopefully he keeps working at it. 

Also this weekend we had the kids do some extra chores around the house. Jackson was on cleaning the kitchen wall which has black marks from the chairs. They picked out the chores they wanted and at first Jackson was excited about his chore...at first. It was a lot bigger chore than he expected it to be, but he stuck with it and did a really good job. 

Past Week

Other than the other days I've written about, not too much has happened in the Barnes house this week. Beckham is gone pretty much from wake up to bed time working on Drama. He's in a play for school and the production is this weekend. I for one will be glad to have him home more, that is until the next play that he tries out for. 

Jacks is good at falling asleep where ever he is when he gets tired the other day he fell asleep on the dogs. Both dogs like being warm, so they really didn't mind. Don't they look so cute?

 While Jacks was sleeping Emery made a lost poster for him for fun. I just like how she spelled things; like serriuse aka serious. Also the reward was a kiss and hug for finding him. 

Halloween

Camden won the Disney Day best costume the other day and school, and becuase of that he got this prize. He was so excited to get it from the teacher today. He got a Jelly Belly dispenser with 2 lbs of jelly beans, a Mickey Mouse and "The Nightmare Before Christmas". 

 The kids were all excited for Halloween this year. We tired to  make most of the costumes this year too. Emery was Evie from the Disney movie "Descendants." We made Camden's Pennywise costume. Beckham was Scarecrow from the Batman movies, and we made his mask and tore up a shirt. His was an easy one to do. Jackson was a Ghostbuster and Brad made his proton pack. 

 This is the proton pack. 

We live in a great area. There are lots of housed with lights on which meant we were only out for a little bit and the kids were able to get a big haul of candy. They'll all have sugar highs for a few weeks before we get rid of it all.