With the extended holiday break over the Thanksgiving weekend, I was able to go get my hair cut and colored. I also was able to get the boys into my favorite place, Whipper Snippers, with its new location in the Santa Maria Town Center Mall. The following are a few pictures that show the new hair styles!
Over the long Thanksgiving weekend we headed up to San Luis Obispo for a shopping trip and took the boys to meet Santa. His house is in front of the mission and from the look on the faces, I think you can tell who enjoyed his visit and you did not!
This year we hosted Thanksgiving dinner on the Sunday afternoon before the official holiday. This way Aunt Maria and Uncle Butch who were going up north to see Cousin Josh could have dinner with us. Plus Aunt Helen and Uncle Charlie who usually celebrate the holiday with her family were able to enjoy dinner with us too!
One of my favorite things about hosting Thanksgiving dinner is getting to make the stuffing. It is my favorite item on the Thanksgiving menu. Growing up I always looked forward to the night before Thanksgiving which is when we make the stuffing so that it is cooled down in time to get stuff into the bird the day of Thanksgiving. The above photo is of Kale helping me break the bread for the stuffing! It turned out yummy just as always!
The bird was great too!
The boys enjoying the pumpkin pie after dinner was over!
I love dressing the boys in matching outfits!
We had a great holiday and we pray that your holiday season is merry and great too!So much of the daily activity in the Ilac household is spent watching the boys just being silly and goofy! Here are some photos that show how much fun the two boys seem to have and how much of a ham they like being!
For Halloween this year I really wanted us to do a family theme and given that there are four members in the Ilac family I thought the Wizard of Oz was the perfect theme to our outfits! At first Kale gave me a really hard time because in the weeks leading up to Halloween he kept telling me he wanted to be a ghost. In fact we had him watch the Wizard of Oz to let him see what characters I was talking about. He yelled at me every time I talked about him being the Tin Man, "no Mommy I want to be a ghost." So the day the customs arrived in the mail I pulled them out to show him and he asked to put them on. Then he started singing "Follow the Yellow Brick Road," and took my hand and said "Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh by!" So I had won and he never asked about the ghost custom again!
As always any holiday in this house is a good enough excuse to do some baking in this house. So we pulled out the red velvet cake mix and baked some Halloween cakes. We had picked up a couple of cake pans in the shape of pumpkins at Target and wanted to try decorating them!
Kale enjoying the cake batter!
Grandma Pat trying her own version of the Family Circle October cover!
Pretty good job!
This year we were joined by cousin Gabriel to go looking for pumpkins. The boys had so much fun picking out their own pumpkin and running around the farm that I took them too. There was much to see and the boys as always had a blast with each other!
