We hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving! Ours was great, but I think Zach, Abby and I were all spoiled by having Andy home with us for 4 whole days! It was so nice, and made it hard to give him up on Monday morning when he had to go back to work. Oh well, we'll take what we can get! Here are some pictures of our weekend. 
We spent the day at my sister, Alice's beautiful home. It was special this year because both of my brothers and their families were with us too, so the whole family was together. Here are the grandkids at the kids table....oh how I remember the days of sitting at the kids table! 
Abby, who was very excited about the stairs! We don't have stairs at our house, so she was having fun trying to crawl up them. She did pretty good too!
Zach and his cousins, Elena, Jasmine, and Sarah, relaxing after dinner.
This was the football-watching crowd....my brother Mark, my brother-in-law Brad, dad and Andy.
The completely adorable turkey cupcakes that my sister-in-law made! Aren't they cute???
Just a little family shot!
The next day Andy decided to do our outdoor lights. He really went all out this year and even got one of the scissor-lifts from work so he could get way up high in our tree. Cracks me up! All of the neighbors were calling him Clark Griswald!
A little higher!
The final effect...although it's hard to tell how they really look in this picture. You'll have to take my word for it that it looks awesome! He did a great job! What a guy! :)
On Sunday we went out to tag our Christmas tree. It's our little family tradition to tag our tree every year on Thanksgiving weekend. My mom joins us too to make it even more special. Here's Zach taking off on his tree quest.
My sweet little man!
Ok, you may think this is a weird shot, but I thought it was so pretty! We were walking along and I saw all of these tomatoes, rotting on the ground. They were still so colorful though. Such a pretty color-spot among what can be a bleak time of year.
Grandma, hiding in the trees!
And, one more family pic. We took a few and I think one of them is going to end up being our Christmas card picture. Seems to be another tradition that we have....the last three years our Christmas card picture has been from the Christmas tree farm. Andy and I joke about dragging the kids out 15 years from now for our traditional picture! Oh well....a tradition is a tradition, right? :)
3 comments:
You are always so good about getting a family picture with every adventure, good for you! I hope I can be as good. They obviously dont have tree farms here. But my parents are coming for Christmas and said that they would cut one down and bring it with them. I am so excited for that and the best christmas smell ever. It will just be sad that it will be only a week before christmas. I guess we will have to keep it up for an extra week.
What a wonderful family holiday! The kids look so happy! Tell Alice that her home is beautiful and I am happy that things have turned out so great for her!
What a fun holiday! I LOVE your sister's house and those were such cute little turkey cupcakes! I've gotta try those next year with Cade and his cousins. And I'll have to stop by sometime soon to check out Andy's lighting job outside. I'm inpressed at his all-out enthusiasm! :) You guys are such a cute family!
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