This year we were with my side of the family. It was really fun because my brother had his kids this year, so all the cousins got to play together all day, AND, my Grampa and my Aunt Karen drove in from Oklahoma and Indiana (respectively). It was a long drive for them (especially Aunt Karen-she drove to OK, and picked up Grampa, and then on to Utah!!), but we're SO glad they did. I can't even express how fun it was to have them there. It was just neat. I haven't seen my Grampa in a while, and it was so fun to have him there. He talked to us about Oklahoma, the Air Force, turning 30 (turns out I'm not the only one who had a hard time with it), and it was just so fun to have him there...I might've said that already :] Aunt Karen jumped in and helped us cook. We came down early Thursday morning, and by then, she'd already been at it for a day and a half, but she did great! We're so glad to have her in our family!
Here's Bubb at the kids' table. Mom put some brown paper on them so they could draw pictures while they waited. Isn't he cute??
Lucky little Bubb got a birthday present on Thanksgiving! Grandma & Papa gave him a truck and trailer and some dinosaurs to ride on the trailer :] Grampa & Aunt Karen gave him the cutest card with a little blow-up sword in it!! He loved it! Thanks you guys!
Here's the grown ups' table. Mom always does such a pretty table.
We decided since we were all together, we oughtta take a big group photo.
Here's my Grampa with all the great-grands.
Liam (7) Tristan (5-almost 6) Mia (2-almost 3) Cooper (4) Porter (6 1/2) Chloe (9)
Grampa (82)
I Love this photo.
Aunt Karen with all the great-nieces and nephews. Don't you love sweet Mia's face??
So it was a pretty special Thanksgiving for us. It was really fun to have them here. We didn't do any black friday shopping, and it was SO nice!! I felt a little left out, but I didn't miss getting up super early, and I really didn't feel like I missed much. I only wanted to go for myself to be perfectly honest, and that's not gonna get the Christmas shopping done, so Matt I decided it'd be better if I avoid black friday altogether :]
So we got our tree on Friday, and Grampa, Aunt Karen, and Mom & Kevin came up to have Thanksgiving leftovers and play games. It was pretty fun. We couldn't get Grampa to play Pictionary on the Wii, but I hope he still had fun just sitting down there with all of us. We're so glad he came to hang with us for a while :]
