Monday, November 26, 2012

Thanksgiving

Where did October and November go?  Seriously, it seems like we were JUST starting the fall, and here we are getting ready to decorate for Christmas!  Anyway, we had a great Thanksgiving week.  Christian had been out of town quite a bit the few weeks before, so we had some much needed and enjoyed family time!  We have also been doing some work on our kitchen, so he had been working hard on that too that last week or two (pics to come), and it has made a life a little crazier too.

Thanksgiving Day was great.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE family and family gatherings, and our holidays are usually full of hustle and bustle from one event to the next (which I love, but is also exhausting, esp with two small kids).  So this year (especially since Christian had been out of town and busy working on the kitchen), we tried to keep it simple, and we ended up keeping it VERY simple, and it was so nice!  We woke up Thursday and had an easy laid back morning, watched the Macy's Day parade (C is now my new parade buddy - she LOVED it!), and then we packed up a lunch and headed to the park.  The high was in the 60's, and it was sunny, so it was perfect.  We played on the playground for a while, had our picnic lunch, and then played some more.  Then we came home, the girls (and Christian napped), I caught up on some shows and made dessert, and then we headed to my parents for dinner.

And of course, I did not take as many pictures as I would have liked at dinner....well, I guess I didn't really take any of our actual dinner!

C headed down the slide!


 Getting ready to go down again!

 L and Daddy!


L checking out the pictures.

 Both girls wanted to sit by Daddy!

 C was in charge of watching the "red button" and was supposed to let 
us know when it popped!  L enjoyed "helping."
L was a little afraid of the turkey at first.  She walked into the kitchen,
and Bam! there it was right at her eye level.  She was
not sure what to think, but got over it pretty quickly when 
she realized C liked it.

Having a little pre-dinner snack.

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