Thanksgiving

We have had a fun week celebrating Thanksgiving at our house!  We had a quiet dinner at home yesterday and spent the day decorating for Christmas and resting.  Gabe made a great turkey with all the fixings and we ate and ate and ate.  Sadie has been looking forward to turkey and pumpkin pie for quite some time now.  The girls really enjoyed watching the parade this year which was a lot of fun.  We recorded it so they have actually watched it several times.  We decided to go bowling this afternoon so I snapped a few pictures while we were there.  We are so thankful for the time we have as a family and for our sweet, sweet girls!  We are truly blessed!

 

  

 

Decorating the Christmas Tree

 



Getting ready to Bowl.  Is it obvious Claire is saying, "Cheese"

 



Go Sadie Go!  

Claire needed a little help to get the ball rolling.

 



Taking a little break.  Bowling can be hard work.  

Gabe with the turkey!  It was soooo good. 

 



Who knew Starbucks would be open on Thanksgiving?  We loved having a coffee and the girls thought they had one too.  Shhh...don't tell them it was hot chocolate.  They were conviced they were having chocolate coffee and watching the parade. 

 



And the picture that loaded out of order.  Just a screen shot of their first bowling match up.  There will probably be many more to come. 

Hello Mr. Turkey, how are you?

That's the song we heard many times during our Thanksgiving trip to San Antonio from Sadie. She learned it at school, and loves to sing us all of her songs.

I'm a little late getting our Thanksgiving pictures posted, but some snowy weather and a delayed start tomorrow made me believe somehow that I have some extra time to blog. I should probably be doing lesson plans, grading papers, and looking over tomorrow's lessons, but I really want to get these pictures up so the blog is winning tonight.

This Thanksgiving we decided to take the girls to Sea World one more time since we had the season passes and we knew we wouldn't get back before the end of the year. Les, Jenny, and Sarah went with us. It was so nice to relax and enjoy hanging out.

One of my favorite pictures from the weekend. We went to La Madeline for Thanksgiving lunch. It was very yummy. Claire really enjoyed the butter. She had to wear her Elmo shirt so she would be ready to see Elmo at Sea World. Of course, she clings to me and says , "No , No!" when we get close, but she's all about the shirt and loves saying, "My Elmo shirt, My Elmo shirt."

Here's Sarah and Sadie on the carousel at Sea World. Sarah was so great to hang with us in the little kid area and let the girls ride some rides.

Gabe and the girls hanging out at the hotel.

Sadie and Claire enjoyed their first round of miniature golf. Here's Les, helping out Sadie.

And Gabe...helping Claire (who thinks she is big enough to do anything anyone else is doing.)

That's the cutest obstacle on a golf course I've ever seen. Aren't they posing perfectly??

Here's Sadie hanging out at the top waiting for everyone to finish. She didn't quite make it 18 holes. We went inside about half way through to cash in her tickets on junk. (I mean prizes)

And another one of my favorites from the weekend of Sadie. She LOVED hanging out at the hotel.

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!

Claire has definitely had a memorable first Thanksgiving so I wanted to be sure it was a part of the blog. She woke up during the night Wednesday with a high fever. Gabe rocked her for a couple hours during the night and after the medicine kicked in her fever went down some and she went back to sleep. Not quite sure if it was a stomach bug or infection, but she threw up a couple times and didn't do much but sleep on Thanksgiving.

(Claire, your first Thanksgiving meal was a few teaspoons of Gatorade by syringe. Sorry you missed out on all the good food, we were especially excited for you because you are such a good eater and LOVE meat. You're really going to love it next year! )

I took her to the doctor on Friday morning and she was treated for an infection since she had been running the fever off and on for over a week. She got a shot and some medicine and has been doing so much better! Just to see her want to eat and drink again is such a relief. We haven't had one of the girls that sick before and it was pretty scary. The doctor was very encouraging though. He asked if she was in daycare and I told him yes. He said that it is common for babies to get sick when they are in daycare and also told me all about a research study he had just read about strengths of children that have been in daycare. He said that they are usually very social and have an increased vocabulary. Those are the two I remember because they reminded me of Sadie. He also said that they usually do not miss very much school because they have already been exposed and have been sick when they were younger. Anyway, he said it would get better after the first two winters which proved to be true with Sadie and to hang in there. It was just so nice to be encouraged and just what I needed after the couple of weeks we had just had of ear infections and sickness. I was praying on the way to the doctor that I was going to need help to hold it together. He gave me the right doctor with just the right words and I am so thankful she is better.

Anyway, I didn't mean to get so far off of Thanksgiving... Here are some pictures from our weekend and the fun we have had.

I was determined to get some pictures of Claire's first Thanksgiving. She looks pretty miserable huh? This would be the hour she was awake. Poor baby. Sadie was a trooper and would pose for me to get some pictures.

Our plans for Thanksgiving were to go to the Lamm's and eat, but we had to cancel. They were so sweet and brought us some dinner. We are so grateful for their friendship.

Gabe and Sadie went on a movie date late morning since we had to change our plans around. They went and saw Tangled.

Claire's First Thanksgiving Photo. Pitiful huh?

Gabe decided to make pizza tonight so Sadie was all about helping. They turned out great. At dinner she said, "Mamma, I made it for you." She is so sweet.

So proud of her creation.

Claire is feeling better! Hooray!!!!!!!

Thanksgiving 2008

For Thanksgiving every year we go to Ruidoso, NM with the Riley’s and the Rhoades. This is our 6th year to go. We always have a good time and do a lot of relaxing. We cooked a big Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. We also played Dan’s Wii. (I think that’s how you spell it. Not really sure.) It was a lot of fun. It was more fun to watch people than to play at times. Gabe was really funny on the ski jump. Sadie had a good time with the ducks on the lake and running around on the golf course. There were also deer that would come right up to the condos. Every year we also do a run. Big surprise, I know. Rusty picks the course every year and we have a lot of fun. Sadie got sick part of the way through so we had a fussy baby that wasn’t sleeping good towards the end. I got pretty stressed and we were exhausted by the time we got home, but we had a good time and made some memories. Everyone was so patient and loving with Sadie and we again were so blessed to be with some of our favorite people.

Sadie's waiting patiently for dinner.

Getting a look at the deer

Ready to run!

We always eat lunch at Cafe Rio on Friday afternoon. It's a great local pizza place.

Everyone watching and playing the Wii

Gabe on the ski jump. He really got into it!

Her's a picture of our feast.

Shopping in Ruidoso. This is one of our favorite stores. We call it the pink house. They have lots of hot drinks and snacks that are great to taste and get you in the mood for the holidays.

Sadie LOVED the ducks. She would sit and watch them for a long time. She learned to throw the bread by the end. It didn't go very far, but she would get really excited.