Fall time and soon to be Christmas!

I spent a while today changing my blog to amazing Christmas-ness so I figured I should also take the time to write something. (Not that I only have this blog to decorate it...) We went to Spokane about 2 weeks ago to see my mother-in-law who was visiting Bowen and Ashley. The leaves were gorgeous and we got some great pictures. The weekend was fun too, I think Luke was a little upset that he had to share Grandma with another child. Elise would sit on her lap to read a book and he would come up and basically sit on top of her! Then this weekend on Veterans day we all went up to Leavenworth which is a Bavarian town up the pass. It was so fun and already snowy! (that was not the fun part) We went through some fun Christmas shops and all got in the mood to decorate next week after Thanksgiving. Its true, at my house Thanksgiving is sort of a filler holiday that takes up space between my two favorite holidays--Halloween and Christmas. Its like oreo cookies except I find Thanksgiving slightly more boring than cream filling. Some people really love it and I get the whole "thankful" thing but Christmas is all about the Savior and loving everyone etc. Doesn't that kind of top gratitude just a bit? Anyway, the best part is being together as a family and eating yummy food. Having an "attitude of gratitude" should be all year!