Thanksgiving

It's about time I wrote about Thanksgiving, eh? I've been spending all my free computer time collecting free digital scrapbooking stuff. Check it out! http://blogtrainblog.blogspot.com/

We spent Thanksgiving with my family and I had a great time as usual. Russell and Casey came and Steven were there and they are awsome to hang out with!

I went to my parents' house a day early. My mom got out some of the old toys that she's been saving for Jared to play with. He really liked the Seasme street letter track. He was also really into the cars. We need to get him some more cars!
We camped out on matresses downstairs and Jared loved jumping on them and playing with the pillows.

We also went to the park and went swimming with the extra time we had while people were at work and whatnot.
Then Russell and Casey came and the party got started for real. We also got to meet Steven's new girlfriend! I don't have a picture of her... yet. But she is so fun! Very entergetic and easy to talk to. In fact, she's a lot like Casey, which is probably why she liked her so much. She's a social worker that works with teenagers who have been in foster care, but never adopted. It sounds like a depressing job because she sees a lot of people with a lot of problems. She has a great attitude about life though.

Jared loved playing with uncle Steve of course. He loves his uncles!
I got a lot of downtime, over the three days because someone was always taking care of one of the kids. Casey was a big help with Kayla again. It'll be a bummer when she has her own kids because she wont have as much time to take care of mine. No, it'll be cool to have other little kids around :)
And she'll be a good mother!

On Thanksgiving day Jared was so excited about having all the people around that he wouldn't take his nap. But then he crashed about the time were going to eat so he had his Thanksgiving dinner later.







Before dinner my parents did the tradional reading of things we're Thankful for from the Thankful box. It was fancy this year because instead of just scraps of paper we got to write on paper leaves that ny nom cut out. Much prettier. There were a lot of good things in the box that people are thankful for.

Then we ate turkey. Dinner was good as usual. Later we played games and watched the movie UP. It was awsome because it was new to most of us and when the character Russell was introduced we all laughed because he's a lot like our Russell was as a kid.

On Friday morning my mom and Casey and Steven's girlfriend went out early (4am) for some black Friday shopping. I met up with them at 6am. Since I had the kids I would just slow them down, so I didn't go to the big stores likr Walmart and Target. They were nice enough to pick up some good deals for me at those locations though. Then we all went to breakfast and a fantastic bagel place. Here's the Black Friday loot when it was all over!







Later on Friday we went bowling. They even had bowling shoes Jared's size, which is adorble. He did fairly well too. Steven and Casey won the bowling game, which is no surprise and my mom came in last by 2o points. That's no surprise either.

It was a fun holiday. And look, Kayla even starting sitting up on her own!