Sunday, December 2, 2012

Friends and our First Thanksgiving

Our good friend Allison who very sadly moved to California came back to visit and we had so much fun! Here are the kids who aren't in school posing together.  It's Jackson, Everett, and Emily.  Aren't they cuties??
 This is a very blurry/crazy eyed picture but we went out to dinner that night to celebrate Allison being in town! 
 Oh my, a favorite toy of Jackson's recently has been these rescue bots.  They go with him everywhere!
 Cooper had the opportunity to make a turkey too since he wasn't there when we made them the first time.  Here he's shooting the turkey...nice huh?  :)
 Lucky Jackson got to make a second one!
 We had Thanksgiving the weekend before at my parent's house because we were going up to KS to spend Thanksgiving with Ryan's side.  We had to take a Christmas card picture for my mom. 
 The kids made some sweet rolls for Thanksgiving dinner and they were a huge hit.. they each ate a bunch of them.

 My and my boys... just missing my daughter :(  No news on the adoption front FYI, we're waiting for our LOA and hoping it'll be coming soon.  We'll see!
 The kids always get a few gifts from Grandma and Grandpa on Thanksgiving-here Jackson is showing off his reindeer noses.
 They got this really cool advent calendar, they are constantly asking to open it.
 It was an action-packed day!  The kids then decorated gingerbread sticker houses...


 and then a real one!


 Here's the lovely finished product.
 We ended the night with a big bubble bath. 



We had such a fun and festive first Thanksgiving!

5 comments:

TLEB said...

It was a great Thanksgiving - and those bubble bath pictures are great!

TLEB said...

Two greats - not very creative comment lol!

Allison said...

Oh my! That Thanksgiving day makes me tired!! Those kids were busy! Also, that truly was a BIG BUBBLE bath!! I love seeing my babies in pics with at least one of yours. So fun to see everyone, so sad that it's so rare! Looking forward to the Christmas card pic next year with your sweet baby girl in it!

The Martys said...

Busy as usual. We missed you all on Thanksgiving. The kids really wanted to make a gingerbread house with their cousins. Happy December!! (I know I will get tired just reading all the fun things you'll do this month ;) )

Gretchen said...

Beautiful pics as usual! What fun!