So Grateful!

I love Thanksgiving time! It's a holiday that is not highly commercialized without a whole lot of hype, just good quality family time, yummy food, and a chance to reflect on all that we have to be grateful for.

I'm grateful I didn't have to travel anywhere this year. Everyone came to me. Anthony arrived first and helped my kids make our turkey favors.

He's such a fun, cool uncle and my kids really adore him.

My parents came the next afternoon.

I love that my mom taught Linsey how to make her famous pies.

It was so sweet to watch them working side by side, laughing and having fun.

It tasted great too!

Doug, Desiree and Aleck arrived Wednesday as well. It was fun to see our little boys hit it off so well.

They both LOVE cars and trains. It worked most of the time.

Thanksgiving morning was perfect. They boys played football and my mom and I had fun putting the meal together.

Aren't those turkeys adorable?

I'm grateful all the food turned out great! I love this picture because while Linsey and Hunter are looking at the camera, my dad and Anthony are checking out the food, probably deciding what they are going to eat first.

It was a wonderful, relaxing day.

I'm grateful we had such beautiful weather Thanksgiving weekend. Friday we went to Northwest Trek. The sun was shining and the skies were blue, that's quite unusual for this time of year here in Seattle. It was a lot of fun to see all of the wild-life in their natural habitats.

Austin and I on the tram ride.

All we got to see was the back of this moose, but hey... we saw a moose!

I'm grateful Grandma brought this fun gingerbread train and gingerbread people to entertain the kids.

It was a huge hit as always!


I'm grateful these boys got to know each other better!

There is so much to be grateful for and we are glad to have had such a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!