Thanksgiving Week
To start with, here are some cute pictures Mom took in late November of the boys playing outside one day.
Big enough for this slide now!
Wheeee!!
He loves to climb now, too!
Charlie hard at work with the trucks.
Figuring things out. I love his creativity.
Chasing each other around the tree.
Yours truly!
Getting a hug before they run off again!
Here is our Thankful Tree, a tradition I hope we will continue in some form as the boys get older. Beside it is a turkey Charlie painted at Mom and Dad's church. We have all these things and so much more to be thankful for!
A close-up of the leaves!
Thanksgiving week got off to a great start with Jimmy starting a new job at GFI Software!!!!
We were thrilled that he got this permanent position after multiple interviews. Here is my man after he got home on his first day, November 25th:
Wearing his new GFI hoodie!
Jimmy is excited that he will be able to work on Linux, Microsoft, and Mac operating systems and will log some great experience here. It is a learning experience and a challenge for him, and he is loving it! Of course it's also nice that the job comes with benefits, one of them being paid holidays. We were so excited that he got to be off Thanksgiving AND the day after!
Thanksgiving morning I made deviled eggs while the parade played on TV in the background. Then we headed to Nick and Stephanie's for Thanksgiving lunch. We had such a nice time there but failed to take any pictures. Boo. They served a lovely and delicious lunch, and we all visited a while afterwards. It was nice to see Dennis and Sallie and meet Stephanie's mom. Also, Nick had bought dinosaurs and cars for the boys to play with, and they loved them! Something funny that happened during dessert is that Henry stole my strawberry cake without me even knowing! I sat down with my dessert and was finishing telling a story, and all the while he was eating my whip cream and cake. He had eaten his, but I guess he wanted more!!
After visiting a while, we headed to Eden to eat dinner with more family.
After visiting a while, we headed to Eden to eat dinner with more family.
Charlie and Dylan at the little table!
Charlie ended up moving to a bigger table where he could be strapped into a booster seat, and then Henry sat at the little table!
He liked sitting next to Shayna.
The rest of the kids/mamas table! Jane sat with us in solidarity.
The grown-ups (minus Mom who was taking the picture).
The younger menfolk.
The boys with Shayna. At least she's smiling!
Sweet cousin Dylan
Henry trying to snag some coffee after dessert.
Me and my boy.
In Gammer's bee-bop hat.
Trying to get a decent family picture...
We can't ever get everyone to look at the same time AND smile! Oh well.
Since Jimmy had Friday off, we were able to spend Friday night at Jane's. It was sooo nice to have time to relax after Thanksgiving dinner and let the boys play longer. After other people left I laid on the couch and relaxed and read, while Jimmy fixed something on Jane's computer. Friday morning was relaxing as well, and we enjoyed Jane's yummy breakfast casserole and honey bun cake left over from the night before! Blair and Dylan came over, so the boys had more time to play, and Rhonda came over as well. It was nice to take it easy on Friday.
Rhonda took the boys outside after lunch.
They found the cat! (I'm not sure she wanted to be found...)
The boys got as close as they could before Jane and Frank's cat ran away.
The boys thought it was fun to run laps around the house, and Charlie liked playing in the back in the bushes.
"In the tree"
Playing on the rocks.
Another attempt at a family pic!
Saturday we decided to decorate the Christmas tree!
Helping Daddy
Charlie really enjoyed helping. He is such an excited little guy about celebrations!
Decorating with my boys!
Henry's method of putting the ornaments on was to throw them at the tree, ha! He didn't quite get the concept of placing them on a tree branch.
I'm so glad we had a little tree- it didn't really matter when the tree fell over, and it was easy to redecorate when the boys took the ornaments off!
Cutting ribbon for the ornaments. At one point the boys thought it would be fun to run with the ribbon around the kitchen and got quite a bit tangled up!!
Finished!
Ta-da!
The tree on the entertainment center had the cinnamon ornaments Charlie helped me make one afternoon and the star Henry decorated on the top. So precious! I enjoyed helping the boys with those decorations and hope we can make more decorations in years to come.
Henry decorating his star (prior to the Saturday that we decorated the other tree).
Henry put lots of jewels on it!
Having red velvet Christmas tree cakes after decorating. Yum!
On Sunday we had the treat of meeting Jason and Mandie in Burlington on their way back from Charlotte. It was so great to see them and have dinner with them at Cracker Barrel!
This was probably the best picture we got of the boys.
My precious friend of over 10 years now! So thankful we met at Southeastern!
The boys bundled up for the ride home.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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