Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a busy, busy Thanksgiving weekend!

We started out with having friends over for a great meal and hanging out after. There were 10 adults and 9 kids...so a house full!

The kid table

 Now that the kids are taken care of the adults dive into the food!

On Friday we did the Christmas decorations. I love this time of year!

Jason working on the kids Christmas tree.

 Jackson was busy looking through the toy ads and picking out a few things.

 Big mess and all!

Grace loved dancing to the Christmas music all morning...with her tutu on of course!

On Saturday morning our elf, Micah, came back!

He brought them hot chocolate and donuts for breakfast. Micah also brought them a gum ball machine from the north pole.

 The kids were so excited to see him!

What you can't see in the picture is they are eating by candlelight. For some reason we were without electricity for the first few hours of the morning. They thought that was funny!

 The Yost's came over for the annual Michigan vs. Ohio State football game. As usual it was fun having them over. We also had a friend who Jason and Tom worked with in Okinawa and now lives in Italy come for a visit while she was in the area. It was great to see her and catch up. We will definitely be making a trip to Italy to visit her.

By the way, Michigan won for the first time in 7 years. Go Blue!!

 The kids had so much fun together. Grace and Ella were stuck together like glue. It's so cute to see them grow up with each other. Jackson and Cooper hung out some too. One day they will be buds playing boy toys. 

 Right before the kids went to bed. Ella had her kimono jammies and I remembered that I had some for Grace from Okinawa. 

We have so much to be thankful for! God is good!