Belated Thanksgiving

Daddy, S.Jessen, Mommy, and Tater

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at my parent's house last week. The boys were pretty great, but Tate is definitely 2! He was into everything from the computer to the dog food. I felt like the most commonly used word for the week was, "no!" I don't remember S.Jessen being like this at 2, but I probably blocked it out because I had a new 3 month old and we were in the midst of moving to our new home. Tate did find the time to be a sweetie, too. He's just so busy!

Tate feeding Annie her food

Tate taking a break to snuggle Adam

No, we did not have ninjas to dinner, but we kept running into these guys on the play porch, aren't they adorable? (Thanks, Granny and Pops for the costumes!) Tater does have one, too, but he was not interested in wearing it at the moment. He'd have to slow down to put it on.

We were also able to celebrate Isaac's 6th birthday. 6 years ago he was born on Thanksgiving morning. It's hard to believe he is already 6 and we are back to Thanksgiving on his birthday again. He is so grown up and really let the little boys do whatever they wanted to him, without retaliation.

Happy Birthday, Isaac!

Roger, Aron, Adam watching Isaac on his big day.

Mom, Ayla, and I did try to brave the Midnight Madness at the Tanger Outlet Mall. We made it to 3 stores. The lines were exhausting and the deals were not good enough to lose any more sleep. Ayla and I went the next night to Coral Ridge and were pleased with our findings. There were some really nice sales.

Before we came home on Saturday, Roger and I were able to bring the boys over to Jayme and Al's to see their 3 girlie girls: Clara, Gwen, and Ada. They are so much fun and so the opposite of our household! S.Jessen has been very opinionated lately about pink and purple being "girl" colors and that he doesn't like girl toys. By the time we left, he was pretty convinced that the ballerina toy they had was pretty Awesome! It was nice to relax and hang out with our families for a couple hours.

Gwen, Clara, Tate, S.Jessen, and Ada

I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving. We are thankful for so much! It sure was nice to come back Saturday, to ease our way back to normalcy before the first real school week at work since before conferences at the beginning of the month!