Thanksgiving Fun

We spent thanksgiving at our house with Devan's aunt Elinor's family and the rest of our "substitute" family which includes our ward friends that also don't have family in the area. We ended up with over 30 people. What a blast!!! It was crazy so I didn't get pics of the event but here are some before and after.

Drostan rolling out dough for his great-grandma's monkey bread. 

One of the great things with such a big group was we only had to make a few things. We fried a turkey and roasted a turkey breast and of course made green bean casserole and monkey bread. We had oodles of delicious food.

The kids played all day and were exhausted at the end. Drostan and Spencer love to do things together. At bedtime we found them both curled in balls, sharing Drostan's toddler bed.

Not thanksgiving related, but after living in our house 11/2 years I finally got my chalkboard wall comleted. Yeah!!!

Pumpkin Carving

It's very late to be posting these, but I thought they were fun and they let you see some of the fun we've been having. For Halloween this year, we hosted a pumpkin carving party. We had lots of people and lots of fun.

My monsters getting ready for the party.

Drostan showing his claws and roaring. Scary!!!

We did several crafts for the kids. Here they are making playdough ghosts. We also made bat pumpkins and played a mummy game and eyeball race.

We even had a hay ride (yes there is even straw in there) for those who wanted to brave the cold.

We even carved some pumpins at our "pumpkin carving" party.

a few pics

So I have decided to take over our blog since Devan is too busy on Facebook to bother. Anyway, I thought I would post some of our recent pics of the boys.

Grayson is growing so fast, he is smiling, cooing, and giggling all the time. He is quite a vocal child, always making some kind of noise. He is also carrying on the Madsen tradition in being "vertically challanged." He is 50% in weight but only 10% in height. He has also taken after the ball side in the hair department.

I finally pulled up the corn stalks and piled them on the driveway by the garden. Drostan went out to play with Devan and discovered a treasure. He made a depression in the middle and promptly sat in it declaring it was his nest. (it really did look like a giant nest)

Grayson doesn't like to be away from the action so this is where he likes it best when mom is cooking or cleaning--sitting on the counter.

Drostan is still a doting big brother. He is constantly hugging and kissing and generally mauling his younger brother (even when he isn't supposed to be on the counter).

This is a common occurance the last few weeks as Grayson has been teething. He frequently gets both fists in his mouth, don't ask me how.