Keeping current? Not gonna happen!

 Every few months when I finish a post, I think to myself, "If I can just keep on top of it, I won't need to post 3,247 pictures and spend two hours writing captions. I'll come back to this in a month and just upload a few." And then TWO MONTHS later, I'm on the computer, silently cursing myself and spending-you guessed it-two hours uploading photos and writing captions. *sigh*
Anyway, on with the photos!

This? This is the 40-foot climbing tower. The pink blob near the top? Bella. The first girl at her American Heritage Girls camping trip to make it to the top and ring the bell. She inspired a bunch of others to do the same.

Awful picture of us at Halloween. We did a Star Wars theme, so Joshua is the emperor, I'm Princess Leia from The Empire Strikes back, Bella is a Jedi, and Ryan is Darth Vader.

The kids are ready to go! Except it was windy and miserable and it SLEETED (slet? haha). So they made it an hour (with us driving them around!) and headed back home to watch Netflix and gorge ourselves on chocolate.

Bella got her ears pierced. She was a trooper and has since (yep, six weeks later as I type this) kept them clean and infection-free!

 Mid-November brought the Lego KidFest to Indy and we all headed there after church. It was fun! A bit different from the other Lego event we went to, but they handed out free Lego kits and the kids had a blast, so it's all good.

This boy was a BIT excited while we waited for them to open the event.

So creative! And completely made of Legos!

That's a pile of two MILLION Legos, folks.

I have cute kids.

Lightning McQueen! Made of Legos! If they had had PB&J there, it would have been a Ryan trifecta.

Love Bella doing her Captain Jack Sparrow impression.

 So, Joshua and I are sitting next to the brick pile, and I can't find Bella. Anywhere. I start sweeping the room, looking for the pink shirt. I walk toward the pile to ask Ryan if he knows where she is. And that's when I see her. Well, part of her. She made some friends with a few other girls (surprise!) and they'd buried her.

 You've seen Ryan's hair. You know there's no hope. That's why, the night he got it cut, I took a picture to remind myself that his hair CAN be tamed. If only until the gel dries and it reshapes itself into the crazy horns and swirls that are, and probably forever will be, Ryan's hair.

 I made the list! Ryan had to write what he was thankful for and here's the list, in case you can't read it: hoodie, May, Christmas, cars, Mom, trains. Love it!

 Our first snow at the house. The kids tried so hard to sled down the "hill" in the backyard.

Bella drew this on the window. I absolutely adore it. I love how she thinks Joshua is "aswesome."

Ryan's race track. He even has a pit lane. He ran many a race on this track with his NASCAR cars.

And somehow, I lost the few Thanksgiving pictures I thought I had. Christmas is in just over a week-you'll probably see those pictures in February. :o)