Our Thanksgiving Break was so much fun! We closed the office at noon on Tuesday and I went home to clean and finish up a few things around the house since Adam and the kids were at the farm. We enjoyed evey minute of our break being at home playing, napping, and seeing lots of family.
Tuesday night we went over to my mom and dad's for dinner and the kids were excited to see Uncle Christopher, Aunt Brandy and Hunter. The kids played and played and we all ate a delicious supper. Adalyn could not understand why Hunter would not let her hold him anymore.
Maybe it's because he's 14 months old and is everywhere!
ha!
I forgot how busy that little age is!
Granddaddy and his grandkids
Look at these cuties in their Christmas pajamas!
We hung around at home Wednesday with the kids and it was so nice to do absolutely nothing! I feel like we are always on the go so we welcomed the fact that we had nothing to do!
Thanksgiving morning we left the house early and made our way to my uncle and aunts house to celebrate Thanksgiving! We arrived around 9:30 and walked in just in time for Landon to see Spiderman on the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. The rest of the family showed up shortly after us and we got busy cooking our big Thanksgiving lunch! The kids played so well and I know they are glad that Hunter is old enough to somewhat "play" too.
I believe we were shooting to eat around 11:30ish or so and if I remember correctly, we were just about on time! The food was sooo delicious and of course, we had so much! We made Adalyn eat a few bites of turkey but we don't have to beg Landon to eat his. Surprisingly, he is our meat eater and gobbled it down. Asking him to eat macaroni and cheese though is a different story...
After lunch and things were cleaned up a bit, the guys went to my uncle and aunts land they own (and hope to build on one day) to shoot guns. My family is a gun loving family without a doubt.
My mom and Hunter went upstairs to take a nap (Adalyn layed with them too after a little while) and us girls (and Landon!) lounged around on the couches and watched Elf. Landon fell asleep for a while and once everyone was awake, we got ready and met the guys at the land to take some pictures.
When we pulled up, Landon was so excited to see the guys and especially to watch them shoot all their guns. On their land sits a reallllly old home that I enjoy walking through whenever we are there. It was freezing on Thanksgiving so I was glad to see they had built a big fire.
My Grandmother and Granddaddy would be so proud to see this picture.
Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren
An oldie but goodie!
We have added two more sweet boys to this group!
I mean, have you ever?!? This kid is just adorable!
Hunter's new face he makes
(Adalyn did the same thing! Brought back memories watching him do it)
(this one makes me laugh)
Landon's "gun" aka- a stick
Like father like son
My 14 year old cousin is almost taller than me!
It was soo cold that once we were finished hanging out at the land, we headed back to their house to re-heat all of our Thanksgiving food and warm up! We gave the kids a bath, ate another wonderful meal, and had our comfy clothes on for the rest of the night. The kids continued playing, Adam, Autumn and I ran to Wal-Mart on the spur of the moment in hopes to come up lucky in the electronics department (no such luck) and we left around 8:00 that night.
We had a such a wonderful day I hated to see it come to an end! The kids were cozy in the car with blankets on them and a movie on for our trip back home. We put them straight to bed and woke up early on Friday morning to celebrates Thanksgiving again with the Clark's!
Our first stop was Jerry and Nancy's to eat breakfast at the store and then headed to the house to start preparing for our big Thanksgiving lunch!
Adalyn jumped right in and started helping with the dressing.
After a while, we packed everything up and made our way over to Brad, Melissa and Jackson's house.
Each Thanksgiving the "boy" cousins were always responsible for the fruit salad (the best fruit salad ever!) Now, we have lots of little hands who contribute in making the salad!
Landon enjoyed doing this because he was able to use a plastic knife. He kept saying, "Look! I did it!" as he cut up Bananas.
Everyone in the family brings multiple dishes that we signed up for so we have an abundance of food! After we ate, we took the kids on walk. It was much warmer on Friday so it was so nice to be outside!
All the cousins (minus Jackson)
These kiddos are sooo close in age!
Decorating papaw with pretty fabric!
All the kids play and play without hardly taking a break! It is so nice now that ours are 3 and 5 and can just say, "see ya later! " as they play in the play room all day long. It's nice to be able to sit and talk without having to have constant attention on them. It's sad that they are growing up on us, but we are loving this age so much. Around supper time we brought all of the food back out and warmed everything back up for another delicious meal! I can officially say I ate wayyyy too much on those two days but everything was just so good! I'm sure I'm not the only one who can say that! ;)
And just for fun...
Thanksgiving 2010
Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!
I enjoy reading back at our previous Thanksgiving get togethers so much. Things change every year but something that will never change is how thankful and blessed we are with our family and friends.
