happy thanksgivin.

i loved seeing signs on my mission that said, "happy thanksgivin!" warmed my heart! this year, we had a wonderful month of november with our "thank you for tree" and thanksgiving! each night as we sat at the dinner table, we'd take turns thinking of what we were thankful for that day. we've done this for 3 or 4 years now and it's one of our favorite thanksgiving traditions. this year we wrote them down on a paper circle and hung them from tree branches. thanksgiving day was filled with fun, lots of food and family. cory, mabel and connor ran a 1k turkey leg race. connor been excited about this for a month and mabel decided that morning that she wanted to do it too. i had planned to run with connor, but didn't feel well the night before, so cory took one for the team and ran with them. i was very proud of my turkey leg-ers!! then we headed off to packer's for our thanksgiving meal.

indian mabel and her turkey she painted.

indian elsie and her apple turkey.

elsie got to join connor at his 2nd grade feast. 

he requested i make chicken pot pies for it...

he was very excited about that part.

the whole crew about to dig in!

before shot.

after ~ so proud of you three!

turkey coma with anna.

cute little elsie's hand turkey.

catching up on thanksgiving.

wow. i am a lot behind on the blogging world. i want to catch up on the precious moments that we've had the last 2 months. it's hard to believe our sweet baby will is 2 months on saturday! he's absolutely precious and has stolen our hearts like only a newborn can. saying the older kids love him is an understatement! they love, love to see, hold, kiss, hug, squeeze, tug, poke...etc, etc, etc... it was a magical holiday season having him in our home. so this and the next few posts will be my attempt at recording those moments.

so we'll start with thanksgivin' {it was never thanksgivin-g on my mission...always thanksgivin'} i still can hear it in my head. love it!

with will being only a few weeks old, we stayed home and only ventured out for thanksgiving day at my folk's house. we were joined with my parents, anna, spence and nate, becky & boys. thanks to becky for taking sweet newborn pics of will {another post...man, i'm behind} and even some family ones!

here's a few highlights.

mabel after her school feast. at first i thought she was an indian, but nope, she's a turkey!

making the traditional apple turkeys.

this year's "thank you for" tree. each day, at dinner, we each say something that we are grateful for that day. then we write it on a leaf and it goes on the tree.

we had a moment of remembering a year before when we had our flood. we debated turning off the water thanksgiving night, but we laughed and said there's no way that could possible happen twice! right?!? {knock on wood}