Days with the Dorans

Happy Thanksgiving! This year we went to Nana & Papa's house for Thanksgiving. In the past, Mommy has had it at our house. She was happy to have it somewhere else. We were also very excited that Uncle Dan and Auntie Steph came too! Here we are "cheersing" with our "wine" (AKA sparkling grape juice!) We had a lot of fun and have much to be thankful for this last year. Here is mommy posing with Uncle Dan and his new wife, Auntie Steph. We've been calling her Auntie Steph for a while now, but they made it "official" in July. When mommy made our annual Thanksgiving video, it was no surprise that she was at the top of Uncle Dan's "Thankful" list. It's also no surprise that Great-Nan isn't looking at the camera... I don't know if we have a single picture of her looking at the camera. Papa and Daddy were too busy eating to smile for the camera. Zach has quite the appetite! Actually, mommy has this same picture of Joey and...

This was my very first Halloween! It was o.k. Mom put me in this little suit that says, "Little Devil." I didn't think that that was very nice, since I really am a pretty mellow baby! I had my little pumpkin bucket, that you can see in this picture. I enjoyed the walk to Independence Village, but all that fresh air made me pretty tired. I went to sleep pretty early and didn't get on the annual Halloween video that my folks take... oh well, there's always next year. I knew right away that I wanted to be a white bunny rabbit for Halloween. Mommy and Daddy read the Velveteen rabbit to me a lot, so I called myself, "The Teen Rabbit." Mommy, Daddy, Papa, my brothers and I went to Great-Nan's house to start our Trick-or-Treating fun! It was cool because there were all these old people sitting around giving out candy. Then I saw this very scary man! (who had a mask) and I wanted out of there pronto! On the way back home, I didn't want to go to any hou...

Fall Fun! Can you believe this? Our non-tech saavy mommy told us how to start our very own blog! (Actually Joey's Godmommy Pammy told us about it) This is a pic of us from the Pumpkin Patch. Every year we have gone to Long's Pumpkin Patch to get yummy donuts and cider, pick out our pumpkins, and say hello to all of the animals. Nana Drapal comes as our personal photographer and has taken this picture for 5 years now! Our first pic was when Jonasen was just a month old. It's not easy to take good pics since mommy keeps spittin out the kids! Mommy can't find all of the pics, but here you can see how we've grown a bit.