This is me dumping pictures from my camera.

I am normally pretty on top of my pictures.  None of this "upload them every six months."  Oh no.  I dump pictures after every event and put them in nice neat little folders by month and year, where they belong.  So imagine my surprise (but not really in light of the last couple of months) when I uploaded pictures today and saw Halloween on there.  Halloween?! That was like, a month ago!! Shame on me.
So without further adieu, the dump.

 It's never too late to share Halloween pictures, right?  Tell me it's never too late.

 I particularly loved the cat whose face looked like she had been digging through someone's garbage.  She might have, one never knows.

 We trick or treated with friends.  It was chilly.  The cat lost almost all of her paraphernalia, only to be found on our way to the bus stop a couple of days later.

 Abby had some kind of reaction to face paint.  She was fine and even got a day out of school out of it.

Hazel continues to be afraid of being alone in our house...thus the "watching Netflix on Mom's phone in the same room with her while she showers".

 The kids raked leaves then jumped in them with friends.

Mom checked for ticks.

 Fast forward, way forward to this weekend where we had a nice, relaxing Thanksgiving with the bro and his wife, and cousins and their brand new baby (and a token Grandma! We love those!)  It was lovely and perfect.

 I took a picture of my food because I am an Oscarson and I do that.  If I wasn't too lazy to retrieve the picture from my phone I would show you my dessert plate with six slices of pie on it.  Mmmm, pie.

We took the girls to see a movie and they proceeded to do what they always do at the end (I think it's their favorite part.) They dance unabashedly up front by the screen.  PS The Muppets rock.  They will always rock.

 Clark has never been to Mount Vernon so the girls and I showed him around this weekend.  We have had crazy warm weather for November, still in the mid 60's! I am waiting for winter to slam us hard and never leave...but not really.  I could get used to this kind of weather at the end of November.

 Seriously, this weather is incredible.

 And then we had to take pictures...lots because there is always at least one person that feels the need to do something goofy...Mia...

 Abby...

 Hazel...

 And then it was all over because Mia saw a squirrel.  There's just no coming back from that.

 And even though I am a total and complete stickler about allowing Thanksgiving to dominate November, I will admit that this year we did start listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving.  But the tradition still stands that the tree gets got the day after, always (or rather two days after this year, as the case may be.)

And now the house is as decorated as it gets, the family room furniture is rearranged to accomodate the tree...pushing the armchair and ottoman into the corner thus making THE perfect spot to sit for the entire month of December where I can take in all the comfy cozy sights of the tree, a spot to set my mug of Wassail and a lovely view of Liz Lemon on the TV.

Bring on December, I'm ready.