Thanksgiving 2011

I didn't take many pictures on Thanksgiving this year, but I made sure to get one of all the great food!! :)  We were at Stephen's brother and sister-in-laws and had 18 people including lots of kids this year!

Eli hanging out with Uncle Scott.

Aunt Carrie and cousin Carter, who just turned one!

Jilly and Uncle Scott.

Carter and Jilly playing after dinner.  Aunt Liz has the best toys!

About to open presents for Carter's birthday. Eli can hardly contain himself! :)

Daddy and son.

Jillian suckered Grandpa into giving her ice cream!  :)  She was in heaven.  We had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  Thanks to everyone who helped by making food and playing with the kids!!  We love you!

Thankful

Grandmommy took Eli to buy all the canned goods needed to fill grocery bags for some families that needed food for Thanksgiving.

He got distracted at first and bought mommy a poinsettia.

But then he got right to work.  Each bag had a list of items that needed to go in that bag, so Grandmommy would tell Eli what they needed and he would find the right food.

He was very good at finding each food and counting how many we needed to fill the three bags.  We found green beans, carrots, yams, beans, mac & cheese, tuna, chicken, cake, and frosting.

Fake smile at the register.

Then we went to Grandmommy's church that night to deliver the food and have a pre-thanksgiving dinner.  He liked putting his bags of food on the steps with the others.  He kept telling me the food was for the families. :)  Sweet boy!

Caught red handed.  He found the pie before we even got dinner.

Sister high-fiving Uncle Scott.

Little poser.

Thankful we have family that help teach our little ones about giving!  Thanks Grandmommy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope you are having a blessed Thanksgiving with family and friends!

My sweet friend Brittany made this card.  If you like it you can visit her here and she would be happy to make a card for you!

Thanksgiving Feast

Eli and Jillian had a Thanksgiving Feast at MDO last week.

Here is Eli with some of the girls in his class.  Not sure whey he posed this way but it's cute!  They are wearing their Indian shirts and hats that they made.

Here they are lining up to go outside so we can set up their feast!  (Eli is third from left messing with his hat.)

Eli's turkey hand placemat, as he calls it.  I don't think the eyes are in exactly the right place.  lol

The teachers asked all the kids what they are thankful for and here is the list.  Eli is third from top.

Pilgram artwork!

Eli eating with his friends.

Eli and Hannah.  The kids had so much fun eating together (all three older classes.)

My sweet girl.  She was the youngest one in there so they had her in a chair with a tray.  Smart teachers! :)

Little turkey cookies I made for the kids classes and teachers!

Trunks, Tricks, and Treats

We went to Trunk and Treat at church on Sunday.

Eli loved being a baseball player and playing games!

Our little Ranger! 

Eli playing a basketball game.

Eli playing a soccer game.

Jillian trying to play the same soccer game.  She didn't really understand what to do.

But she had fun picking out her candy after playing!

Eli LOVED the pony ride!

Even though she stood in line with brother to take a ride, Jillian didn't want anything to do with it!

Playing a fishing game with Daddy.  He caught a whole ziploc bag of candy!

Sister playing a game more her speed.  She didn't exactly toss the bean bag, but close enough.

Eli and his friend Brennan.

Eli (fake smile) and the firefighters.

When it was our turn to hand out candy, sister was a big helper.  She would grab a big handful of candy and put it in the kids buckets!

After all that work, she decided she needed a (much too big for her) sucker.

Then she was done.

Until she got her very own bag of popcorn.  Isn't that what we all want?

The kids had a great time.  And even though us parents had a panic attack when we couldn't find Eli at one point, we had a great time too!

Monday night we took the kids Trick or Treating.

This is how we started out.  She's a watermelon and she can cry if she wants to.

But the baseball player was ready to go.

It was pretty dark by the time we got out there.

First stop was our neighbor across the street.  She always sits outside to greet the kids.

Jillian got the hang of it very quickly.  She insisted on holding her pumpkin bucket with one hand and putting the candy in herself with the other hand.  She soon discovered she couldn't get her hands to meet across her belly!  As you can see, she finally decided to put the bucket down and invite herself in.

Eli was the official bell ringer.  He would ring it about 6 times.

Jilly still taking her candy instead of letting someone else put it in her bucket.  Maybe she thought they would take her bucket.

Last house.  Very festive.

This little watermelon was walking very slowly by the time we finished but she was determined to walk.  The kids got TONS of candy and Eli asks to have a piece several times a day.  Gotta get rid of it soon so he will stop asking about it and eating it!