Christian's Movie

Christian LOVES watching youtube videos of people he knows and I (Dan) figured he would like one of his own. Also, this was the first movie I've made since high school, so it was good to break me in.

The Tree!

For those of you who didn't know, Dan did the show "The Scarlet Pimpernel" at the Hale Center Theater recently. There was a guy, Kyle, who he performed with who had a fake tree he wanted to get rid of. Now, me and Dan LOVE having a real tree but for many reasons this year we didn't think it was going to happen, so we lucked out when we offered Kyle $50 bucks for the tree and he said "how about $10" we really lucked out. It was fun too because when he brought it over it was late at night so the boys were already in bed. We set it up but didn't decorate it. The next morning Christian walked out of his bedroom and we heard " (audible gasp) It's our CHRISTMAS TREE!!!!!" It made us so very happy, great big thanks to Kyle for helping make such a fun magical moment.





On a side not, only the top half of the tree is decorated now, unlike this picture, because neither of them will leave it alone!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

This is what our Thanksgiving looked like this year:


The bird. We brined this baby and it was sooo tender!


The wild Turkeys out on Thanksgiving morning celebrating- there were tons of them


Wouldn't be a Duckwitz gathering without a couple of guitars and jam sessions


The adults braved the cold to take the little ones out on the 4 wheeler


Thanksgiving preparations in the cabin kitchen, I love this kitchen.


Just hanging out playing games


Kids playing in the loft


Evan's interpretation of a marshmallow, isn't he cute :)



And of course young Duckwitz grandchildren giving a little concert. They made up these songs on their own, they keep on talking about starting their own band. I think it's awesome they are so creative.

A Conversation with Christian

Right before bed today, Christian and I were watching Justice League (he's really big into super heroes right now, another post, I promise) and Christian turned and said to me:
Christian: Mom I don't like bad girls
Me: How come?
Christian: Because they are mean and they suck the blood out of your neck!
Me: (long speechless pause)... yep bud, they do.

Here's hoping that he still doesn't like bad girls when he's older ;)

I'm not worried that his favorite color is Pink

In love with Fall

It finally quit being so raining and cold yesterday and we ventured out to rake up our leave. I kid you not, there was about a foot of leaves that had fallen on the lawn and, *sigh*, quite a few more to come. But I tried to make the best of it with the kids and we had a good time. Evan was not to sure about playing in the leaves but he eventually warmed up to it. Christian dived in head first. He kept wanting me to cover he completely even his face. When I would he would giggle and say "It's so dark in here Mom!" We found many a leaf in his clothes later on that day.


Christian hiding in the leaves


Surprise!


Evan getting in on the action


Christian has a cute little rake my parents gave to him, he was actually very helpful

Happy Halloween

We had a great Halloween lots of friends, cousins, and candy!!!

The whole fam- and if you are wondering, yes Roman's did wear sneakers :)


Evan was a Blue Crayon, it's a little hard to read with the black on blue, but isn't he super cute! When we went trick or treating he walked, I should say ran, the entire time. He had a great time.


Christian was a doggy, my visiting teacher let me borrow this cute costume she made and it was perfect. At preschool they have been talking about Halloween and trick or treating a lot so he was really excited this year. He kept on hollering trick or treat and Happy Halloween. And if he wasn't at the front of the bunch at the door step he would say "Get out of my way!" ... we are still working on trick or treating manners :)



We went to pumpkin land with some of the girls in our play group.... I love the girls/mommies of play group so much! Can't get enough of them. Of course I didn't get any pictures of them, just their cute little kiddlets.