Thanksgiving

Sadly I don't have any pictures from Thanksgiving yet.  My mom took most of the pictures since I was dumb and didn't even take my camera out of the bag.  (In my defense, though, the bag with the camera in it was in the cottage and it was just too cold to go back and get it when I thought of taking a picture!  Yes, I'm blaming it on Wyoming winter weather!!)  Once I get the pictures from my mom I'll post them on here.  For now you get to enjoy a picture of our Paige after she was practicing piano.  You can see some of my Thanksgiving decorations on the table, so there you go! ;0)

We did have a wonderful Thanksgiving.  All of my siblings except for Keith and his family were there.  We really missed them but had a good time with the rest of the fam.  Besides having a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner, we played games, watched lots of football, shot some guns (that's just a given in my family), laughed at all the cousins playing, and helped my mom and dad clean and organize some (OK, a lot) of their things.  We went through old books and photo albums/pictures which we divided up between the kids.  The best part of this was the reactions of all of our kids when they saw their mom's and dad's old books.  Paige and Austin LOVE reading the books we brought home and I LOVE reading them because they bring back so many memories.  I remember reading "The Naughty Puppy", "FeatherFin", "Glitterby Baby", etc. and now my kids can enjoy those same books.  Love it!  It was also really neat to look through my mom and dad's old photo albums.  It's been a  really long time since I've seen those pictures of my parents' childhoods and of my ancestors.  There were even several pictures of my grandparents that I had never seen, so it was great!!

We also helped my mom organize her craft supplies, fabric and patterns.  We were very productive, let me tell you.  Plus, we were able to score some awesome supplies.  I'm so excited about some of the patterns I got from her.  Carebear, dinosaur, truck patterns, along with princess costume patterns, and many more.  I'm so glad we were able to help my mom and dad with this.  We gave so much to DI, threw away the things that needed it, and cleared a lot of the items in their storage unit out.  Great job, Mom and Dad!!

So, yes, we had a wonderful, productive Thanksgiving.  How about you? :0)