Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and I hope you did too. We have so many blessings to be thankful for and should be thankful year round, but it is nice to have a day to stop and remember those blessings. On Thursday we went to my in laws. My father in law was working out of town and we missed him very much, but my mother in law put on a great feast as always. For some reason I didn't take that many pictures. I must have still been tired from our trip. Here is Todd's Aunt Tina (on left) and his mother (on right):

Here is Todd and I, he was carving the turkey:

Emily helped out by making the relish tray:

Here is some of the yummy food :

Here is the kids table: (I never did get one of the adults)

Then on Friday we had it again with the ones who didn't make it Friday and those who did at our house. Here is my nieces Lucy and Saliah playing in Emily's room:

Mom and dad sitting down to eat: (yes it is sad but true, I still have not decorated my dinning room after living in this house over 9 years)

The kids in the living room:

My nephews Justin and Hank and my brother Michael in the kitchen:

My nephew Linus being a pirate:

We are truly blessed with all our family and loved one.

San Antonio and Sea World

Well it just happened that this month that Todd's week off for November fell the same week as the kids Thanksgiving break. So we decided it would be fun to take the first of the week and go to San Antonio with some friends. It sounded like a good idea, until the head gaskets started to leak on the Expedition. We did make it there (it only took us 7 hours) and were able to drive it once we got there and even made it home so all in all we made the best of it. Now I am without my car until it is fixed, but at least our trip wasn't ruined. When we got there Monday night we went to the riverwalk and had dinner at Casa Rio and then took the boat tour on the river. Some of the lights for Christmas were on, but not many as Friday was the official lighting. Here is Todd and the boys:


Me and the kids:


Emily and her friend:

Julie and Mike and their kids:

On Tuesday we went to Seaworld. There weather was a little cool, but the sun was out and it wasn't crowded. Here are the kids with Santa Shamu:

The park was already decorated for the holidays. Here are the kids at the front entrance that usually has a fountain, but now has a beautiful tree:

Todd and I and the kids:

The 4D movie for the holidays is Polar Express, they shoot out snow during the movie and again at the end of the movie here is Todd and JT:

You can see Emily in the green shirt trying to catch the snow:

This is Emily and I after she rode the Rio Loco, the other kids wanted to go again, but she didn't want to get wet again:

Our friends had just been back close to Halloween and when they went Julie rode the Rio Loco with the kids and her husband Mike squirted them as they went by to make sure they got wet. Well this time it was pay back time as Todd and Mike took the kids to ride, Julie and I waited to squirt them:

Of course we went and saw Shamu. It was a nice Christmas one and had live singing:

We also went to watch the Clyde and Seamore (sealions) Christmas show too. The kids sat up front as they wanted to get wet. They got squirted one time:

We went and looked at the shark and the kids actually stopped long enough in front of the jellyfish that I got a picture:




We had a great time and Emily's friend found them some dolphin best friend necklaces, here they are showing them:

We got up Wednesday morning and came home. We actually made good time, but before we left we took these pictures outside the hotel. It was very nice and had a gazebo and mini soccer field with picnic tables out by it.

We had a great time. Thanks Mike and Julie and kids for going with us.

Happy Birthday Mom!!

I wanted to wish my mom a happy birthday for tomorrow (November 30). We love you very much. Hope you have a wonderful day!!!

Thanksgiving Feast

Dylan and Emily had a Thanksgiving feast at school. Dylan's was last Wednesday. Each class made something to share with all the other classes. Dylan's class made homemade cranberry sauce which was really good. They all got to dress up as a Pilgrim or an Indian. Here he is in line to get some of everything to try:

Here he is with some classmates:

and again:

Emily and them did the same thing on Thursday. They made different stuff though. Due to time issues they had to have theirs outside, but it was a beautiful day for it. They also got to dress up as an Indian or Pilgrim, but Emily did a little of both, she wore a Pilgrim hat instead of her feathers, but wore her Indian vest and necklace. Her Indian name was Jumping Rabbit. Before they sat down to eat they sang a Thanksgiving song:

Here they are singing:

Here she is looking at the food:

Her with some of her classmates:

Birthdays

We have a lot of November birthdays, but mine, my dads and my niece Cassie are close so we get together and just go out for all of ours at once. Well with every ones crazy schedules the only time we could find to meet was on a Sunday morning for breakfast. So we met at IHOP. Here are some of the pictures from that day.

Cassie:



Joey and my dad:


Todd and I and our kids:

Justin, Hank, Tori, Susan and Hank:

Tori, me, Emily and Cassie:

It was different to have cake after breakfast, but it was a lot of fun. Now on Sunday it will be my mom's birthday!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Just wanted to pop in and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. I hope everyone ate way too much like I did. The food was great today at my in laws house and tomorrow we will have everyone over at our house so I won't be sharing much tonight, but have a lot to share. It has been a crazy last few weeks and when it settles down a bit I will share. Come back soon!

Happy Birthday Cassie!!!!

Wanted to wish happy birthday to my sweet niece Cassie. She turned 17 yesterday and with the crazy weekend (will share more later) I am just getting around to wishing her a happy birthday. Due to every ones hectic schedules we met this morning at IHOP to celebrate her birthday as well as my dads (November 8) and mine (November 14). I have a bunch of pictures from that, that I will share later once I download them. Happy Birthday again, we love you!!!!