Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was a great day.  I'm so thankful for our little family, my family, Jaren's family and extended family.  I love making new traditions and getting our girls excited for the holidays.  I believe out of the ten years we have been married, we've only not had Thanksgiving at our house maybe two or three times.  I love getting up in the morning and getting the turkey ready, and it smelling up the house a couple of hours later.  The past two years we have had Jaren's parents (this was our first Thanksgiving without Jaren's dad, which was sad), Jace and family, Rachel and family, and Rachel's in-laws, and it has been SO fun!  There's always tons of yummy food, the little kids get to run around and scream and have fun, the older boys play video games, and then....aggravation time!  Jaren's family has been playing the game aggravation for forever!  I'm not a huge fan of playing, because man, they are pro's at it!  They basically roll the dice and know within two seconds the move they need to make.  I on the other hand, am super slow and I feel like they are all watching me, waiting for my move...haha.  Anyhow, I didn't play last year, but this year I got sucked into a two and a half hour game!  It was loooonng, but very entertaining.  The best part about the game is the funny comebacks everyone has, it's hilarious!  Jaren's family is very quick witted and so dang funny!  Rachel's in-laws are pretty funny too, and they fit right in.  Patty thanked us so many times for having them again, and even offered to do it at her house next year.  I didn't take too many pics, but here they are....

 Love my two little munchkins ♥  The girls slept until

6:45AM Thanksgiving morning....which is late for them!

 The girls were very interested in the turkey, especially

Hailey. She kept wanting to touch it...ewww!  

 The girls watched the Macy's Day parade for

about thirty minutes or so.  Hailey looks a little

funny in this picture....haha.  She was in the stroller

pretending she was a baby...silly girl.

 Helping cut Velveeta for the yummy brocoli

rice casserole.  They love to help in the kitchen.

 Jaren cutting the turkey.  We don't do the whole

"carving the turkey thing", we just slice off pieces

and put it on a tray, much easier that way :)

Stuffed bellies, getting ready for aggravation to start!

 Nephews Sam and Luke.  Sam was just two when Jaren

and I started dating, man, time sure does fly by!

 

 The girls playing with cousin Elsie.  They ran around, playing

and screaming for hours.  They sure had fun, but I think

they definitely missed cousins John and Reagan.  In January 

we will be going to Disneyland with Elsie, and I know they

are going to have SO much fun!  Can't wait!

 We didn't eat until one o'clock, so the girls had been snacking.

Addy pretty much wasn't hungry, but asked for pie about

fifty times...haha.  She would come in from playing outside

and say "can us have some pie?", we would tell her not yet,

and she'd be back five minutes later.  Cute girl!  She had

a slice of pumpkin with whip cream and loved it!

 Aggravation time, so fun!  We laughed so much, the boys

are in the background playing video games and were laughing,

and I could hear giggling, screaming girls outside having

a great time!  Feeling very blessed ♥

Three little turkeys eating icee's.