Snow-vember 2014 & Camp Onyahsa Dinner Dance

From green grass sunny days of the beginning of November…..

to the white flurries and snow on the ground…..

A little early visit with Santa Claus and his reindeer Prancer

Train show at the Jamestown Train station

How gorgeous is our winter wonderland?!! We just love it!

Snow play!  Yippee!

Who needs sleds these days??? These boys figured out how to slide down the hill on their tummies like penguins!


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Did you see how fast Taji is sliding down that hill?!!!

 Sledding with our buddies, the Persias! Daddy taking turn with Taji.

 Then, Jax's turn!

 Taji with his buddy Matthew.

it was a hot chocolate sunday fun day in the snow!

YMCA Camp Onyahsa Dinner Dance Benefit:

This dinner and dance was a for a great cause, to support and finance the YMCA summer camps for kids.  We hope to give our boys the "summer camp" experience one day, the real one…. staying overnight in cabins and doing lots of lake and nature activities.  Its also conveniently 5 minutes from our house! Our friends who are on the Board invited us and it was another great classy evening getting dressed up (I have never owned or worn as many dresses as I have this past Fall!), and dancing with my husband! :-)

Halloween 2014- Trick or Treating & Parties

Turtle Power 2014!  

Its the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Grover Family!

But first….. Taj's halloween trick or treating at his school, with his UPK class… (The Statue of Liberty is his teacher Mrs. Lewellen)

Taj's buddy Gavin

A couple nights prior to Halloween, we attended the Safety Village Halloween Fun Fair in Ashville.  Based on the weather, we knew that on Halloween Friday, it was expected to rain so we met with some friends the Wednesday before Halloween and went trick or treating at the fun fair.  The fun fair was designed with little ones in mind, it was a miniature village and the kids wouldn't have to walk so far to go trick or treating at all the miniature buildings and stores.  They even had a little train there.

Then on actual Halloween night, I made some special scary stuffed peppers for dinner, and while Jax stayed home with me to watch some Halloween cartoons, Taj and daddy braved the rain and took the golf cart out to trick or treat at our friends' houses in the village.  They even stopped off at the fire station, coffee shop, and market where they were passing candy out to the kids.  I think Brad was more excited to score some candy so he could steal it from Taji after he went to bed! :-)

On the first day of November, we got our first snowflakes!  You can't tell very well in this photo but it had started to snow and although it did not stick to the ground, it sure was beautiful and welcoming change to the season.

The Saturday evening right after Halloween, we attended the annual Nolan-Steen Halloween Barn party with our friends.  It was Disco themed so we pulled out bellbottoms (I actually sewed mine!), I donned the best ABBA costume I could put together, Brad afro-nized himself and we met up with friends and had a disco fever fun night!