Thurday November 27

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

It was such a great day today.

We did lots of fun stuff together.

But first, dad got home this morning to tell us about a fire he was up all night fighting.

So he was tired....but he was pretty pumped about the fire, so it kept him going until about 4ish, when he zonked, and he is still going strong right now at 10 :)

Hope he can feel rested tomorrow!

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So Madi made her pumpkin pies this morning.

She did a great job.

Cassi was busy making the place cards for our Thanksgiving table.

She found a really cute idea on Pinterest and ended up with a super cute turkey.

Madi was in charge of the center piece this year.

She had a really cute idea for our Thanksgiving tree this year.

That has become one of the things we do each year.

We have a 'tree' of some kind, and then we have things that we are thankful for written on something.

This year, they were written on cute paper leaves.

Madi made the table look just beautiful :)

Then we all worked together to get all the other stuff cooked up.

Right before we ate, we all went outside for some pictures.

A new tradition that I insist on :)

But everyone was happy and we got the pictures pretty quickly.

They will thank me for all the pictures I take....someday!!!!!

I think everyone's most favorite Thanksgiving tradition is having Emmy here with us.

Elsie is in heaven all day long :)

And we just love having her with us!

So once we got the important stuff done....we went inside and ate.

There was so much food and it was so yummy!

During dinner we talked about favorite traditions, and about things we are thankful for.

After dinner, we cleaned up a bit (dishes are still not done....rinsed, but not washed :)

Then we plopped ourselves down on the couch to watch Maleficent together.

Mid-way through, we paused and had pie.

Yummy pie!

We had Madi's pumpkin pie, Emmy's Oreo pie that Cassi helped make.

Dad's keylime pie that we bought for him, cause he loves it......

And, at my request, the Sweet Potato pie that Emmy made yesterday!

Oh my goodness!!!!!

That is a new tradition for sure!

It was so good!

I want to go sneak another piece right now!

After the pies, we went back to watching the movie.

That's when Daddy fell asleep.........

After the movie, the kids did a little treat craft......Turkey's again.

I told Elsie she was in charge of the craft and that is what she wanted to do :)

They had a lot of fun and made many many different creations.

And got full of even MORE sugar!

We also played a game of Thank-tionary.

We all wrote things we were thankful for on pieces of paper.

Then we pulled them out of a jar to draw them, and try to get everyone to guess.

It was a super fun game  for all the kids.

Elsie was so funny.

She knew that Emmy and her put 'Buffalos' on one of their cards....

So every time someone got up to draw, she would guess "Buffalo" right away.

It was pretty darn funny :)

To wind down, we watched "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving".

Then, when the kids were supposed to be in bed.....(Port was actually asleep)....we looked through the years of Thanksgivings on the blog.

I am so so Thankful that I have documented so much of our lives on this blog!

I have such a bad memory, and it makes my heart happy that I can record these things so my kids will never forget them!!!!!