Happy Turkey Day!

We began this year with a special breakfast for my grandma, affectionately known as “Gee.”  Her birthday this year, happened to fall on Thanksgiving Day.  I know she was feeling a little overlooked with that being the case, so I decided to invite she and my parents over for breakfast and dedicate it to her birthday.  I think she had a great time.  I know we did and Jared particularly enjoyed playing “Cat’s Cradle” with her.  Funny…..a game both generations could understand!  We scoured the ads to find any “Black Friday”deals and really, I seldom find anything tempting enough to give up my precious sleep!  After the birthday festivities, it was back to Thanksgiving………

Another Thanksgiving has come around!  Michael and I try to rotate families for the holidays so we spend an equal amount of time with each.  This year was our year to spend Thanksgiving with his side and Julie & Hank happened to be the only ones that were around!  We had a great time with them!  The food was amazingly good…..Julie’s one of the best cooks around!  We all hung out and watched a movie, ate lots of yummy food, I painted the girls’ toes with my glitter toes kit, while the kids played and ate more yummy food!  It was a nice, relaxing day.  I need more of those  (minus all the calories :))

One tradition we like to do every year, is make “turkeys” out of cookies and candy corn and rolos for place settings.  Well, we were late for making them this  year and our cousins had it done by the time we got there.  Mason took it upon himself to check out all the place settings and sample them…….for everyone!  I think he approved!

The kids also had a gingerbread “House Off,” and I’m leaning more toward how the girls’ house turned out.  The boys however, were pretty creative.  There’s a character on the Super Mario Brothers game called "Bowser” and they sort of dedicated their décor to him.  It was a gingerbread house with a spikey roof made of candy corn. 

Hank and Julie decided to perform “the Robot” for us and of course, I had to get that on film! 

Oh yah, and of course, I can’t forget Gavin’s brief stint with cross dressing.  The boys find girlie stuff fascinating and somehow the girl cousins managed to persuade him to try on a Cinderella dress.  He thought that was so fun and silly until I threatened to take pictures and show them to his friends!  I was happy that quickly motivated him to change!  All of a sudden, it wasn’t so cool!  ":)