Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!  We had Thanksgiving dinner at Grammy and Grampy's house, as usual, but we were missing Grammy and Grampy. With thoughts of them, Jono cooked a very large turkey, all the extras and everyone enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving dinner.  It was a great Thanksgiving Day spent with those we love.

This is the best picture we took of all the crazy cousins.  They were quite well behaved this year and we all enjoyed our Thanksgiving feast.  After dinner, the older cousins sang a song about "turkey dinner" or "trunkey dinner" as Coleman says.  Coleman has gourmet tastes for a three year old and put lots of fresh ground pepper on his food.

One of the best things about the week of Thanksgiving was that my sister Rebecca was in town with two of her girls, Aly and Maddy.  We had so much fun!  During the day,  Rebecca, Laura and I would get together and the little cousins would play.  We also called upon every babysitter we knew to tend while we went to dinner, lunch, a movie and another lunch.  It was mommy heaven!  And, only one time when we arrived home was the babysitter in tears.

My favorite lunch was at Nordstom Cafe.  I have never been there without a child or two in tow and the food is very good.  I also loved going to see Twilight; Haley joined us for that outing. The four of us laughed and laughed, it's not a comedy, but we found it very funny.  I'm sorry that Sara and Andrea were unable to join us in our fun adventures.

This is a picture of 3 little monkeys "helping" me make pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.  The other picture is Maddy Boo with a hurt nose.  She insisted on wearing a band-aid.

We also had a Thanksgiving feast with the Oettli family.  We cooked another turkey and had more pumpkin pie.  We are blessed to have wonderful, loving families.