Thanksgiving

We started our Thanksgiving with parade watching and breakfast at Grandma and Grandpa's house  The parade inspired K-T to do a show of her own.  Here's Aunt B clapping out a rhythm for the dancers.

Dancer #1 is Grandma!

Dancer #2 and Tambourinist is K-T.

The music never stops!  At my Aunt D's house the wee ones rocked out on the electric piano.  No, they aren't smiling for the photo, but they are both looking at the camera.  That's priceless.

A wildly competitive bingo game took place after dinner.

Is it weird that on this most food-centric of holidays I have no photos of our yummy meals?

Turkey T

Meme and Papa came over today and dressed this lil' turkey in her turkey t-shirt.

I think she is doing the claw again. Go Rangers! I never knew she was such a fan. It's Daddy's influence.

Gobble, gobble (at least the male turkeys do seasonally when sleepy)

I made Katie some play food for Thanksgiving. She loves her roast turkey. She gives it hugs and kisses. I hope she isn't too traumatized when she finds out where turkey dinners come from.

Yes, the drumsticks detach.


Punkin' Pie


Thanksgiving morning we ran the Turkey Trot. Here's K and Daddy bundled up to race.


Mawhner/Grandma's favorite trotters.


Our racing team ready to run! Jon is not happy I used my whole neck to smile in this picture.


Can you tell what I am most thankful for? No, it's not the stroller! Guess again.


We had an early dinner at Grandma/Mawhner and Granddad's. Look Jon's "don't show the teeth smile" is possibly a family trait.


Here's Memaw T cookin' it up. You know it was good!


The feast!

1st Thanksgiving and 2nd Christmas Tree

Katie loves Thanksgiving. Rather she loves the Thanksgiving menu. She fed herself green bean casserole, dressing, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie.



She liked it all. After food, Katie is most thankful for having a big dog to climb.



Jon and I ran the Turkey Trot so we could enjoy our Thanksgiving feast guilt free. I ate lots of ranch dressing. Yum!



It is K's first Christmas season, but she is on her second tree. We put her first tree up today. Jon trimmed it with 400 twinkle lights. I carefully arranged all the ornaments on it. All that remained was wrapping the stand with the tree skirt. I broke the stand while attempting to scoot the tree. It crashed to the floor. I screamed. Jon yelled. Katie woke from her nap with a start. It was a disaster. Jon was too distraught to even allow me to take a picture of our wrecked tree. Jon exchanged the tree for one with a metal stand. We should be good to go now.