NAKED ELI Eli hates getting dressed, undressed, and basically anything to do with clothes! I was trying to find a few random pictures for a post of November and realized I didn't get ONE of him with PANTS ON!! This is more of a problem than I realized! Even the videos I have of him... NO PANTS! So for the sake of history...here is NOVEMBER NAKED ELI! Maybe in December he will have pants...??

November 2009 HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! We spent this year with only the Manwaring side. This was a first for us to only be with one side of the family. We usually make it to 2 dinners every year. The family is getting too large for the house (45 people) so we had dinner at the church then different people were assigned activities (Turkey shooting with rubber-band gun, decorating sugar cookies, bingo) for all the kids and a talent show. It was a lot of fun. We definitely have much to be grateful for this year!

Halloween 2009 Eli was a pirate for Halloween and HATED putting on the costume! He wanted nothing to do with it! We never did get the hat on, but at least he wore half of the costume. After he pouted for a while he forgot he was wearing it and became happy Eli once again. What would Halloween be without Ben dressing up trying to scare the children? I feel bad about this one, I didn't get a good picture of the costume and the only pictures that did get are too dark to see it. So take my word for it, It was a great costume! He sat on the step holding the bowl of candy with our great collection of spooky music blaring through the window. Most people thought he was fake and others didn't even want to try to get the candy. For Halloween dinner Lesa and Chad had us over for their fun Skeleton, spaghetti meal. It was great as usual and the kids loved it!

2009 Sister Sneak This year we had our Manwaring Sister Sneak in Utah. Katie was in charge and did a great job! We arrived in Logan on Friday Night and went straight to a fun BEADLES shop where we learned to wire wrap and make fun necklaces! Later that night we shared our Favorite things (we each bring one of our favorite things to share and we go home with a bag of fun things!). Saturday we slept in, went back to the bead store to finish our necklaces then on to Gardeners Village, dinner, and back home! What a great weekend, if only it could have lasted longer!