Thanksgiving Part 3

Once our bellies were full, the tables cleared, and food put away, it was nail time!  The second and third generation girls took turns painting each others nails.

Of course Emily was all about getting her nails painted.  She loves it.  And her second cousin Selena was so sweet (and brave) and let Emily paint her nails.  I don't know who had more fun with that, Emily or Selena!

Here was the end results.  Of course Emily thinks that she can paint mommy's nails now too.  I am not near as sweet or brave as her dear cousin so Emily has yet to paint my nails!












Saturday morning before we packed up to head home Will and his momma had to break out the ol' Kaypro to see if they could get it to work.  They wanted to show the kids the computer that their dad grew up with.





Unfortunately they could't get it to do much more than turn on but they had fun reminiscing and looking through old floppy discs.

The kids still thought it was pretty cool.  Dad's first computer looked pretty ancient to them.  Technology sure has changed a lot in the last couple decades.

Thanksgiving Part 2

Thanksgiving morning started off with the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade on TV and Drew losing his front tooth.  Why the picture of all 3 boys?  Well, it took all 3 of them to help get the tooth out.  First the tooth was loose to begin with.  Drew had been working on it all week.  He lost the tooth next to it the week before.

Jake and Drew were messing around and Jake "accidentally" elbowed Drew in the mouth making the tooth bleed and become more loose.  And by more loose I mean it was basically just hanging there.  Ewww.   Drew didn't want to pull it out so he had Brodie do the dirty work.  After a little while the tooth finally came out!

I always get a family picture each Thanksgiving.  Here is this years.  Unfortunately there is usually one person who doesn't have the best picture.  This year it was Drew.  He was sad at the moment.

Here is the dinner table complete with name cards made by grandma.  

The family.  Minus myself and Jenny.

Grandma and Grandpa did something new this year and we went around the table and everyone said what they were thankful for.  It was pretty neat and something that will stay in the memory bank.

 

Grandpa Joel led the family in prayer and it was time to dig in.  It was an amazing dinner.  There was so many things to be thankful for.  Mostly, I was and am thankful to be part of such an amazing family.  I love each and every one of them so much.

To be continued...oh yes, there's more.

Thanksgiving Part 1

3 generations of bakers!  

We had a wonderful, relaxing Thanksgiving.  We spent a few days up in Colo with Will's parents.  I am dividing my post up into 3 sections because I have so many pictures that are just too good not to share!

We went up the night before and Emily spent the evening helping Aunt Jenny make pies.  

Only at your aunt and grandma's house could you be elbow deep in flour and have no grownups even bat an eye.

Here is Grandma teaching everyone how to properly flute the edges of a pie crust.  

To be continued.....

Thanksgiving 2011

We had a wonderful holiday weekend. We celebrated Thanksgiving on Thursday with both Will's parents and my mother, siblings and their families. We headed up to Colo in the morning and spent a few hours with Will's family. The food there is always good and there is plenty of it. The weather was beautiful and the guys played football outside for a bit.
In the afternoon we headed back home and spent the evening at my mothers house. My siblings and their families showed up and we ate yet again! We celebrated the November birthdays that evening as well. The cousins all had a good time playing and hanging out.

It was a great day filled with wonderful food, warm homes and loving families. I am truly thankful for my life.

Happy Thanksgiving (a little late)!

Emily 25 days old.

Thanksgiving and Family Pictures

We had a nice long Thanksgiving weekend. We spent part of the weekend with Will's parents at their house. We played cards, drank coffee and enjoyed their fireplace. Friday Mom, Jenny and I had a ladies day out and left all the guys at the house. We went out to lunch and spent the afternoon touring little boutiques and antique shops. We had a great time and it was nice to be out and about without any children!

Sunday we had Thanksgiving dinner at my moms house. I love being surrounded by family. We are so lucky to have everyone live so close to us. We don't have to travel far to see anyone. Dinner was great and all the cousins had a good time.

Each year at Thanksgiving I try and get a family picture taken of us to use for our Christmas cards. It's never very easy to get a good shot of all 6 of us at the exact same time. This year proved to be no different. No one was really in the mood for their picture. I think Tony was the only one who cooperated for the 5 minute photo session. Who would have thought pictures could be so stressful.

This is how it all began. Drew on the floor. Typical.Followed by Brodie on the floor. What one does, the other follows. Ok, standing up pictures not going so well let's all sit and try. Nope, that doesn't work either.
Jake is thinking, is this what my life has come to?Alright Brodie if you aren't going to smile, we will make you smile.Now he is really mad. Drew is outta here.Ahhh, the proud parents.Believe it or not we did get one decent photo out of that mess. This will be our holiday photo this year.Thank you Jen for capturing such a memorable Thanksgiving photo session! Hopefully next year will go a little better.

Well, things have been busy around here. Nothing too out of the ordinary I guess. The little boys have been really struggling with naps and sleeping in general. My mother-in-law told me they inherited that from their father. Drew has been taking naps off and on but when he does this is where he has chosen to sleep.

Right in the middle of the hallway. I can't get him to sleep in his bed. This is where he falls asleep at night too. I can remember sleeping in the hallway too when I was little. Strange huh? I guess he got that from me.

Brodie is officially potty trained now. On week 2 of underwear and so far we have been extremely lucky and he hasn't had any accidents. It is nice to have only 1 child in diapers. It has been 2 years since I have had that!

Tony is playing basketball now. He isn't really liking the team he is on. He has a kid who has been bullying him and we are now in the process of switching teams or having the other child switch teams. Tonight Tony was in tears cause the other kid put Tony in a choke hold and threatened him. Poor kid. He is really having a rough go of it here lately.

Jake is busy with jazz band. He has practice 2 mornings a week. He also is working on a culture project right now for Social Studies. His grades are slowly improving.

Overall everyone is doing fine. Looking forward to the holidays. I went through Christmas gifts today. I have gotten a pretty good start. Crazy to think it is almost Thanksgiving and then it will be Christmas!

I'll end the night with a picture of the projects the kids and I have been working on. The Indian corn was made by Tony, the small turkey by Brodie and the large turkey by Drew.