thanksgiving break

first ever plane ride!!

we spent an afternoon up at leavenworth wandering around the Christmas shops and looking for heath's first Christmas ornament

of course heath spent a lot of quality time with grandma and grandpa :)

love this picture of heath and all of his cousins, they are a cute little bunch

this year for thanksgiving we flew up to WA to be with the andersons, it was a nice and relaxing break....and, as usual, we ate way too much delicious food! but hey, that is what the spirit of thanksgiving is all about. it was a lot of fun to have the whole family together again

first family photo

heath's blessing

mark gave heath a beautiful baby blessing on november 13th. i know mark was nervous but he did a great job and i appreciate all of the thought and prayer that went into the blessing he gave, it was perfect. i was also happy that heath could wear the outfit mark wore at his baby blessing (even though he just barely fit into it!) he looked so handsome. we are so grateful to all of our family and friends who were able to share this special day with us, we had both of my grandpas, both of our fathers, my little brother, and mark's good friend ian stand in the circle-- heath is lucky to have such a wonderful support system

the cutest little frankenstein that you ever did see

our halloween was pretty low key this year. heath was the hit of the annual allen family halloween party, but mark and i were lame and didn't really dress up. next year, next year. then on halloween night we just stayed at home, carved pumpkins (see post below), made pizza and the most amazing homemade doughnut recipe i have ever had (found here), and watched some old scary movies. and now.... bring on thanksgiving and Christmas!!