What a special and full holiday week with lots of family time.
November 24
Doesn't really mater what we're doing, its just so great when all my kids are together.
November 25
Our house is the age when all the appliances start to give up. Shaun found a holiday sale too good to pass up on package and as soon as they were delivered, we began installing.
November 26
Its a decades-old tradition in our family to do a major project with the deadline of a major holiday or event. Under pressure is how Shaun works best and over the span of many years, I've learned to appreciate "progress" being done and to work around the inconvenience.
When we heard our two favorite waitresses were working the same shift, we had to go visit!
November 27
Amanda and Aiden spent the night at Avery and Jack's but they were sure to hang the birthday banner. :) And Amanda sent this picture...the Birthday Girl. :)
All the kids decided to run the Manchester Road Race together, our local and festive 15,000+ runner's 89th Annual 4.737 mile race. First time for all of them and they picked just about the best weather day possible. They got to join up with other family who were running and all were proud to have finished.
Amanda had created a beautiful table and every brought food to share.
This side is big on puzzles and traditionally a 1000-piece gets completed on Thanksgiving Day.
Happy birthday, Sweet Amanda, who is 19!!
November 28
No picture.
November 29
Thanksgiving celebration, part II this time with my family. We had the sweetest gift of a two-week old baby. For many it was their first time meeting him.
And we can't forget about the cutest little Ezra Mae, a newly minted two-year old. I'll wait to post some adorable pics of the two cousins together for the first time.
And two rambunctious boys who add heaps of joy.
We teamed up to keep a steady stream of appetizers and desserts happening, which freed us up for lots of just being together.
Unplanned color coordination. Gosh, I love this crew of big people.
Though they wouldn't be leaving a week and a half still, this was our chance to say goodbye to Maddy, Mason and Ezra before they set off for their work in the Middle East. So yeah...that was hard.
Once they left, the "arguing game" came out. :)
November 30
My workout Buddy for the morning, with excellent pushup form.
After church we spent the afternoon trying to squeeze some last hours in with Amanda before she headed back to school.
There was the epic-est game mini-hoops yet. Two teams, officials, national anthem opening, hype music, an announcer with a British accent and enthusiastic fans.
Avery went with me to drop Dakota off and we hung out with a couple tiny babies for a while.
