Thanksgiving "09

This Thanksgiving Weekend was "filled to the rim" full of so much fun activity.

We are so Thankful for Family.

*Our weekend in pictures*

We are thankful for spending time with our cousins.

{Crawling underneath the street in front of Grandma & Grandpa's house}

We are so thankful for these oh so cute triplets.

We are thankful for all God's creations.
{A Butterfly landed on Lauren's finger during our Thanksgiving Feast}

We are thankful for beautiful weather, great cooks and our fun big family.

We are thankful for grandparents & great grandparents.

We are thankful for hammocks that break while all the grand kids are piled on and doesn't hurt anyone.

{There is a video of this that I have to get and post later. AFV worthy}

We are thankful for all of Grandma's brooms and for leaves and dirt we can sweep.

{This is something the little girls love to do}

We are thankful for Uncle's that take cousin's on nature hikes for long periods of time.

We are thankful for Grandma's toy room.

{Grandma thought it was hilarious that Lauren kept wearing this crown upside down}

We are thankful for Ethan's talent of entertaining cousin's while make duck tape wallets and purses.

We are thankful for older cousins who help with the little ones.

{Nice job modeling your new purse, Cailie}

We are thankful for Grandma's patience.

We are thankful for the love we feel when we are all together.

We are thankful animals.

We are thankful for youthful bodies that allow us to try crazy toys.

We are thankful for girls who like to get their pictures taken by aunts who never stop taking pictures.


We are thankful for S'mores.

We are thankful for campfires and great brothers.

We are thankful for warm feet.

We are thankful for birthday celebrations.

{Melissa, Eric then Steve's}

We are thankful for good Christmas Light hangers.

We are thankful for girl time.

We are thankful for Football.

We are thankful for cute little boys.

We are thankful for cousins.

{and for G&G's chili pepper Christmas Tree, Ole}

We are thankful for wild white elephant gift exchange Christmas parties.
{The Famous Black Leather Pants. They some how manage to make it to every party}

{Towel Warmer, this gift has made it's second appearance now}

{A box of gold. It was full of old door knobs}

We are thankful for sleeping children and days full of fun.

We are thankful for our wonderful Thanksgiving with family and our safe trip home.

Lauren's Field Day

Because of bad weather, the Kindergarten Field Day was held in the Gym. This was her first field day and I had to schedule my House Hunting trip around it, didn't want to miss a good post, I mean my daughter having a good time.

She is totally cheering her classmates on. She would make a great cheerleader.

So cute!

Go Lauren! Go!

Love Her!!!

My Goodbyes!!!

I found a few pictures of our Katy Goodbyes!

The Jaimes (Aitran was a friend I made as I was her visiting teacher and she is one amazing women with faith building story to tell, she needs to write a book)

The Brunsons (Our closet family that we enjoyed living by and celebrating holidays with)

Emily Jones (friends for 10 years, neighbors and in 2 wards together, Westlake and Katy 2nd)

Kathy Turner and Carolyn Pack (fun friends to have)

So Long, Steve!

Just a picture of Steve packing up his truck to drive to California by himself to start his new job with Occidental Petroleum. While the rest of us stayed behind to finalize everything else. He took the necessities: 2 bikes, 1 canoe, 2 propane tanks, 1 helmet & 2 suitcases.

Yes, he made it there safely.

Celebration

In honor of Steve, his new job and our move to California, we celebrated by going out to eat to The Taste of Texas. A very good steak house. We actually went on bp's dime, as Steve still had a gift card he had received as an extra bonus for good work he had done.
This bear is in their waiting room. And so, of course, I took pictures.

Henderson Visit

Duane & Steve

Melissa & Jana

This was a way overdue visit. The Henderson's were great friends of ours while at Texas A&M. And for the past 10 years we kept saying we were going to go visit them. And we did a couple of times, but it has been a long time since. So now that we were moving, we had to make it work. It is so nice to have those friends that if you don't see them for a while it doesn't matter because you can just pick up right where you left off. Such a wonderful evening we didn't want to ever end.

Matthew & Blake

Matthew H. & Ethan

Lauren posing & Ryan Rachel & Ryan