November-early December

We went on this hike just down the way in Simi Valley. Nice view, eh?

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Decking our halls and our new xmas tree...

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Setting out our stocking and xmas lists for St. Nick, as well as checking out what he left us in the morning....

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Our annual holiday cookie decorating party....

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John's xmas concert with his preschool class....

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Las Vegas

Just before Thanksgiving, the four of us went to Las Vegas for a couple of days of buffet-eating, watching the dancing fountains, visiting the M&M store and explaining gambling to our children. We also drove over to the Hoover Dam... a very cool man-made wonder. Well worth the drive.

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Halloween

Because we were in town for Ellen & Rick's wedding on 10/30, we were also in town for Halloween! We spent the first half of the evening trick-or-treating with Chris's family, including our 3 nephews and our niece in Park Hills. And then we headed over to Grandma & Papa Otte's house to trick-or-treat again with Aunti Em, Auntie Erin & Uncle Tyler. It was SO much fun in both neighborhoods... I was hoping next Halloween fell on a weekend too.

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Pumpkin Patch

John and I went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch last October with his preschool class.

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Ellen & Rick's wedding

Well, I couldn't manage to edit these pics, but instead just uploaded them all. Click through them fast enough and it's like watching the wedding video. :) They're all good anyway, right?

Many congratulations to my sister and my newest brother-in-law! If anyone wants to get prints of these pics, I'd be happy to upload the originals to Shutterfly, Walgreens, etc.

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Catching up...

Here is a picture of:

our new red couch
the new red covers I put on our dining room chairs
Chris's new chair
the pillow I made for V
the pumpkin sugar cookies I made for our trip to KY in October

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Virginia/Soccer

So Chris has taken like...... 500 pictures of Virginia playing soccer this fall. I have picked out a few of the best to share. She is loving soccer... she runs fast, kicks hard and smiles the whole time. She has scored a couple of goals for her team, the Green Fairies. Enjoy!

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By the way...Virginia's team is (obviously) green and she is #7.

Doesn't the dSLR camera make U8 AYSO soccer look amazingly exciting!?