BlackThorpe Barn

Me and my friend Tina took the kids to go see Santa and reindeer this past weekend. It was freezing but the kids enjoyed it. There were crazy parents fighting while we waited for Santa. It kinda ruined the experience but it didn't bother the kids and that's all that matters. All the kids were excited to see Santa but Riley was the only one brave enough to talk to him.

Raising Money for children in need

Mid November England does a whole raise money for kids in need. Riley didn't have to wear his uniform if he provided a donation for the charity. He was to wear spots. I completely forgot and this is what we did with a white shirt, a sharpie and about 10 mins. McKinley's was easier they had a CrAzY hair day. Here are my monkeys..man do I love them.

Halloween

We enjoyed Halloween at the Capogna's (they sure do host everything lately). We enjoyed homemade chili and cornbread with all the rest of the junk food. The trick or treating was awesome in their neighborhood.

Thanksgving

We were so happy to have my brother and his family out here to visit for Thanksgiving. They had to entertain themselves a lot and I was a horrible host. It was difficult to take them places when I had to be back to get the monkeys from school. But they were great guests and Denise had no problem jumping in the car and driving over here. I cant believe how big my nephews and neice is and what a big difference it makes to have not seen them in a year and half. We went to the lovely Caponga's for Thanksgiving. It was a great night. The only thing that would have been better was if my man was there. We love and missed you Jer. Thank you Chris and Denise for coming out and entertaining us! We love and miss you already!

Daddy's gone again but will be back.

Jeremy is on his second deployment (at this base) of six months. We are already through the first month but man has it been hard on all of us. We really planned ahead to make sure that the kids had something from Daddy before he left. He calls the kids his monkeys so he got them both stuffed monkeys and told them he filled them with lots of lots of love. That way when they miss daddy they hug the monkey and get some of Daddy's love. We also got the recordable reading books from Hallmark and listen to that every night. We left early the morning he deployed in hopes to spend some time with him. I took a few pictures before we walked out of the house. When we got there we literally had time to say I love you and bye so we didn't get anymore pictures. Jeremy means so much to our family and is missed every second throughout our day. We are able to still communicate with him so that we can keep in touch. We have been so blessed to have not had very many deployments and feel very grateful that it's only a 6 month deployment. Times get tough but we get through it because Daddy is gone but he WILL be back. I am so thankful for all the military members and all that they sacrifice. I love you my man and cant wait for the next five months to fly by.

Carvin the Pumpkins

Dad was awesome to do most of the work. We left the carving until the day of Halloween and Dad came home and helped the monkeys with their pumpkins. Kinley was NOT a fan of the inside. Here is the finished product. Thanks Daddy!

tHe PuMpKiN pAtCh

We took the kids to the pumpkin patch with the Capogna's. We have gotten to be great friends with these guys and our kids play great together. We picked out pumpkins and ate donuts then off to the park. We froze our lil bum's off so we headed back to the house for a nice fire and dinner. Great day with great friends make great memories~

McKinley's Birthday and Costume Party!!!!!!

McKinley's birthday was on October 3rd. Since we didn't have her party until the weekend. We had a celebration on her actual birthday at home. McKinley chose what we were having for dinner which was of course was pizza(you can see on her face in the pictures). She then opened her gifts from us and then we ate cake. Perfect calm night!





We had her party this past weekend and decided to do a Halloween costume party since Dad will be deployed for Halloween this year. There were 28 kids there and lots of sugar. We played pin the skull on the skeleton, ate donuts off a string (our own version) and wrapped a few kids up to look like mummies. Needless to say I am sure all the kids slept good that night! Happy Happy Birthday to my Lil girl. Sorry the pictures aren't very good but you get what you can with 28 screaming kids all asking for something at once..haha!











And then we came home and opened presents on the kitchen floor? It was the farthest I could get into the house before McKinley starting ripping into them!
Love you McKinley!