The Knick Family: 11/01/2011

Friday, November 4, 2011

An African Memory

I was looking through my Mom and Dad's pictures on their computer, and came across this one! I love it, it was such a fun find, and totally took me back to Africa! This is in our backyard, our house is off to the right, and you can see a little bit of my favorite tree, that I use to climb, and read in all of the time. This is a termite hill, sounds fun huh....but it was the best clay for making pots, and other fun things! It was really small when we first moved in, but it just kept getting bigger! And by the way, all of our houses were made of brick, so there were no termite problems! In back of us is my best friends house, that is where I learned to do everything she did, cook, clean, take care of her baby sisters, and even how to carry them on my back! I was a little African most days :) Makes me miss living there SO much...can't get much better for a kid! Jon is so cute here, and I have a wonderful haircut (not!!). It's a fun memory!

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Happy Halloween from the Knicks!

I was going through lots of pictures these last few days, and wanted to share some of my favorite Halloween pictures from the past few years!

1st Halloween in our new house in Wheaton.

You can see that we recycle!

Oh my goodness this is cute!!

This is probably my favorite picture of Hayden EVER!!

Stopping in at Grandma's

Had to add this one in, cause it scared everyone...Jeremy as part of the Blue Man Group!

First Halloween at our house in Ashby

I am missing a few years, but it's still fun to look back....

Here they are ready to go this year!

Jaxon was "Optimus Prime", from Transformers. Hayden was "Darth Vader", from Star Wars, and Jonah was "Bumblebee" from Transformers.

They were so excited to go to every house, but very good too, by saying "Thank You", and standing back from the door...not that I had to remind them or anything :)

Carving Pumpkins

We have had a great few days to get out, and carve our pumpkins! This is the first year the boys have actually got in there, and dirty...but they thought it was kinda gross! Most of these pumpkins are Hayden's, that we started growing at the beginning of the summer.

I got to make sure they were all clean, and then clean up, while Jeremy did the hard part of drawing them, and cutting them out. He did a great job, he is so creative!!

Jonah and Dad with his pumpkin "Mike" from the movie Monster's Inc.

Jeremy helped them find what they wanted on the computer, then just drew it...I don't know how he does it??

Hayden with Dad, and "Mr. Big Mouth"

Jaxon, Dad and Jaxon's ghost

Jaxon's pumpkin

When Jeremy was carving them, we decorated these pumpkins with fun stuff we got from Grandma. It was a great way to pass the time, so they didn't bug Jer, plus it was something they could do without cutting themselves!

Jonah's cat pumpkin

Hayden's puppy pumpkin

The finished Ghost....

and "Mike"...

and "Mr. Big Mouth", eating some other small pumpkins!

I think the boys were pretty impressed with Dad's work, I know I was!

And they were happy with what they did!

We kept these in the house

And have these outside...didn't they turn out awesome??

At school, the kindergarten class got to visit the shop class, and explore some pumpkins. They had to count some seeds, and clean the pumpkin out, saving some seeds to eat later!