Thanksgiving 2013

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving week (month).  It feels like holidays are more like weeks or even a whole month around here.  For the whole month of November the kids and I have been working on their thankful tree.  It has been fun to hear about all the things they are grateful for.  The night before the last day of school Aubrey and I made pumpkin spice cookies for her teacher and for Carter's school potluck.  I love how she wanted to write Ms. Stapp a note to go along with the cookies.

 The preschool party was fun and so nice that I didn't have to plan it, ha!

 Michelle and Carter! They LOVE each other! They do everything they can to make sure they get to sit together at snack time.  Carter reminds me everyday that Michelle is his girlfriend!

I got to volunteer in Aubrey's class 2 times in the past 2 weeks.  The first time we made turkeys and the second we played a Thanksgiving day game.  I love feeling involved and getting to know her friends and teacher better.  It was fun picking her up and seeing her all dressed up.

This past week off of school has been fabulous!!!!!! I love having my little partner in crime home.  We spent most of the week staying in our PJ's until 11 or 12.  We played lots of Thanksgiving games, did lots of art projects and watched lots of holiday movies.  We also set up all our Christmas decorations, as you will see in a future post.  Nana came down one of the days so I could go into work.  We also went to the movie Home Alone at the old fashion theater down town on Wednesday.

Thanksgiving morning we woke up and did our annual tradition of watching the Macy's parade and eating cinnamon rolls.

 I was very excited that it was my families Thanksgiving Day turn this year!!! After the parade we packed up and headed for the mountains.  It was such a nice relaxing day with Nana, Papa, Titi, Gaga and the 4 of us.  Nana got the kids a cool DIY bouncing ball kit.  They enjoyed working on that with Papa and Gaga.

We took some family photos.

 The kids brought up their costumes and put on a show for us it was adorable.

 Dinner was amazing!! I loved every thing! The turkey was the best part! 

 Our family!

 Aubrey and the turkey leg!

 After our wonderful meal we vegged out on the couch for awhile and then enjoyed the wonderful home made pies by Titi.  After pie some of us decided to venture out to do some black Friday shopping.  We were not going for any specific deal but it made since to go out since Nana and Papa could baby sit and we could get a jump start on our Christmas shopping.  We stayed in Sonora that night.  The next morning we woke up and got ready for our travels to Stockton to celebrate with the Supinger side.  When we first got there we jumped right into eating and it was another amazing meal! We are so lucky to eat like Kings and Queens two days in a row.  Uncle Brian and Aunt Angie rented a huge jump house for the kids so that is where the kids spent most of the day.  All the ladies got to sneak away for a little shopping trip to downtown Lodi. 

 When we got back we celebrated 5 cousin birthdays and enjoyed dessert.

It was a fun couple of days for sure!! It was great driving home Friday night and thinking we still have a whole weekend ahead of us.  We took the kids to the movie Frozen today which was so much fun.  It's hard to believe that our Thanksgiving week is almost over and we are jumping right into Christmas celebrations and traditions! What an exciting time of year!!!! I'm so very thankful for my entire family on both sides.