Thanksgiving Morning

The Evergreen Kozels wish you and yours a happy and fulfilling Thanksgiving.

Here in Evergreen, it's more of the same good stuff: Circles and Water.

Helping Dad...

While Brian (outside) was finishing up some demolition on the side deck, Christopher (inside) decided to "help" by doing a little hammering also.

Who needs toys to entertain you...

...when you have a cabinet full of pots and pans at your disposal?

He spent a solid 3o minutes stacking, arranging and rearranging them as I carefully danced around him while getting dinner ready. Worked out pretty well, actually.

New hat day!

We love new hat day around here - thanks, Grandma Kozel!

We took it out for a walk right away...looks like it's a keeper!

Pumpkin massacre...

We cut apart our pumpkins today (which we never got around to carving for Halloween - oops). We're going to try our hand at pumpkin spice muffins, made with fresh pumpkin, for breakfast tomorrow. Pumpkins are baking in the oven now. Christopher was a big help - lots of "eewww" and "yucky" and "gross" from him as he squished pumpkin seeds between his fingers. For a kid that doesn't usually like dirty hands, he dug right in. By the time we were done, Christopher had orange hands and socks matted with pumpkin seeds on the bottom. Yum!

Mmmmm...crayons...

Oh, sure...it looks like an innocent coloring session...until he looks at you and you realize he's also been snacking while coloring.

Like my namesake...

Perhaps my future is in computers?

Hint, hint...

I'd like a sled for Christmas, please.