Friday, December 17, 2010

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving this year!!  Marci and Trent had it at their new home and it was so nice.  The kids of course LOVED playing with their cousins and the adults just talked and talked.  So much fun and tons of yummy food!  We sure did miss mom and dad though.  It’ll be nice when they are around for holidays again. 

All the cousins except Max and Colin who were both sleeping.  Even baby Lily is in the photo on Marcus’ lap :). 

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Sorry Marci and Trent are kind of cut off in this one. 

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Snuggling with Colin (one week old in this picture!).  Sweet newborn babies; they just make my heart melt. 

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We’ve had a lot of snow storms!!  The kids have loved it.  Max is funny, it was so deep he could barely move. 

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Madi’s cute letter to Santa.  She got so excited to find an envelope and stick it in the mailbox. 

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At her preschool's Christmas performance for the Nursing home. 

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After singing the kids went around and shook all the hands of the residents.  It was so sweet.  I’m glad my kids weren’t shy and were happy to go talk to them and give them hugs. 

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Madi and her class doing the “Reindeer-Pokey”.  It was their favorite song.  Please ignore my annoying muffled laughs, thank you. 

I can’t believe Christmas Eve is a week from today!  We’re doing our family’s big dinner here.  It should be a fun night!  I feel like I’m just as excited for Christmas morning as the kids are.  It sure is tons of fun having kids around.  It’s all so magical to them.  We’ve also really been trying to teach them about the true meaning of Christmas.  I feel like every family home evening this month has been about why we really have Christmas.  So we’ll see if it sticks :)