Thanksgiving and Carter's Bday celebration(s)

The night before Thanksgiving I was busy in the kitchen peeling potatos and what-not. The kids wanted to watch a movie, but we have a rule that they can't watch cartoons if their rooms aren't clean (well... pretty clean). Carter asked me what he needs to do in his room. Well, since I don't have photographic memory of the mess in there, I trusted him with my camera to go upstairs and take a picture of their room so I could then give out their cleaning assignments. (Plus, I knew giving him this responsibility would keep him busy for another 5 minutes!) So... here's what he came back with:


And, he even was thoughtful enough to take one of the mess in their closet, that HE says Lylah made. lol


My mom spoiling Reno. (Which by the way.... gave him HORRIBLE skunk-like gas!)










Zach attempting to put together Optimus Prime masks! (They all got thrown away!) side-note- this is the fakest smile I've ever seen him have! LOVE YOU BABY!


This cheap track! What a waste of $50! It's already broken! I have to try to get out my handy-dandy superglue and fix it. At least he had fun with it while it lasted.


He loves his bug-farm thing and having his own radio!










He also loves reading - his GIJoe's, and Transformers! (it's funny because these are the toys Zach played with as a little boy too!)




Lylah was being a drama-queen because she didn't have any presents!


So, we threw a couple of her dolls in a bag with some tissue paper and let her open those! It made her happy!











Carter's 'Day before his birthday Birthday Pie'. I love his little smile when he's getting embarassed!










Reno drueling - just waiting for a crumb to drop! See the bubble!

My flower-pumpkin centerpiece. Who knew it was going to take $15 in flowers to fill it up!


Later that night...

Zach worked Wed. from 4am-7:30pm and then Thurs morning fm 5:30am-10. He was a tired Daddy!


Happy Birthday Carter! (his real birthday!)

Again with his embarassed smile while we sang Happy Birthday!











Needless to say- he was the only one that ate this cake! lol