The Cooks

We had a great Thanksgiving holiday at Mike and Sherilyn's in Ohio. The kids loved playing with their cousins Ryan and Rachel and Linus was there also, Chris' cousin Ritchie's little boy. We had great weather the whole time we were there and so we did a lot of outdoor activities. The first day we went to a park and some went for a lengthy walk along the river while others exercised. We went canoeing on Thanksgiving day at the scout camp which was a lot of fun. The camp dog came to visit and wanted to go on the water with us. We also tried our lot at the archery station. Mason and Sadie were getting really good at it and sure had a lot of fun. Mason loved the trampoline at Grandma's and didn't ever want to get off of it.







Sadie was excited about a fire in the backyard, so for two nights we had a fire going in the pit. One night we roasted marshmellows and told stories around the fire. Sadie loved getting her stick glowing from the coals.







This is the clan! We had such a great time with family and the kids were sad to go. Chris and I were too. We hope everyone had a great holiday.


Sadie lost her first top tooth! She was pretty excited about the tooth fairy coming again and went to the dollar store to purchase an ornament for the tree.
We love, love the pics! Jeremy is so cute and I love the pictures of him. Thanks for posting everyone! Love, Katie and family

Here are some photos of Jeremy's 4th birthday party. He had a few friends over for games, cake and icecream. His favorite gift was a stuffed dog named "Libby."

Thanksgiving Party at Away We Grow Preschool. What a cute indian!
Happy Birthday Jeremy! Can you believe he is 4?!

Here are photos of little old Engine #1 that at one time ran between the town of Chena out to the goldfields of Fox and Chatanika on the Tanana Valley Railroad. The local historic railroad club has restored the engine. On the weekend before Halloween they ran it on the Pioneer Park track and gave free rides. The little engine puts out an impressive amount of smoke!!

We enjoyed "Trunk-or-treat" at the church this year. One family showed up as Harry Potter complete with Hermoine, Snape, Harry, Malfoy and his dad and Harry's Parents. It was pretty cool. I wish I had taken a picture.

Here is Sadie as a Butterfly Princess. She ended up with a purple and black body instead of all black.



Mason as a trashbag ghost. He didn't want to put anything over his head in the end and ended up just wearing this bag. He also didn't want to talk to anyone while trick-or-treating. I had to help him out, thus I get to eat some of his candy, although I don't need it!



We hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Josh has enjoyed another season of soccer. Zach, the coach, has enjoyed the season, but is looking forward to free Saturdays again.


Curious George was a natural pick for Jeremy. Joshua's love of space took him to the stars.

Here is the Cook Schuhmann & Groseclose, Inc. staff yesterday as we dressed for a Halloween breakfast and then paraded through the other offices in the Jimmy Huntington Building. In case you couldn't tell, I'm the scary clown.

Dad/Grandpa