Thanksgiving Etc.

We had a wonderful thanksgiving weekend with family, food, and fun! We have so much to be thankful for!

On to the weekend... We attempted to run the Dallas Turkey Trot as a family.. not good. It was Gabby's naptime and she wouldn't sleep so she was either screaming... I mean SCREAMING... or being held by us for over half of the race. Needless to say, we did not finish. We went about 2.5 of the 3 miles... but the walk back to the car from our stopping point was about half a mile. So all told, we probably made it the full 3 miles, just not on the intended course.
Here are a few photo highlights from our weekend:

Making a gingerbread train with Granna and cousins Olivia and Calvin

Opening Christmas gifts from the Denver family

A Peter Pan book for Oliver - he LOVED that!

And a touch a feel book for Gabby - she loved it too - she is really into books right now!

We made a Thanksgiving Turkey and all made two hand print feathers to say what we were thankful for. I was very proud of how cute it turned out considering I cut the turkey out free-hand.


I know it's kind of hard to read them... so I will interpret for you.

• Gabriella: Bananas and Bunny and BaBa
  
• Oliver: Elephants and Giraffes
• Amanda: Matt, Oliver and Gabriella and All of our extended family
• Matt: Neighborhood friends and God's love
  

Some thing we are not so thankful for... so Matt went out last night to make sure our garage door was closed before we went to bed. It was not, so he pushed the button to close it, but it would only go halfway down and then go right back up. So he walks out to investigate and then calls me over as he points to something dangling from the door gears... it's a dead mouse! Apparently the mouse was in the wrong place at the wrong time! So he pulls the mouse carcass out of the gears and discovers that the mouse has gotten our door cable off it's track. Perfect. So we got to pay a garage door repairman today to get us back on track... literally. I just love to spend money that way :)