Thanksgiving 2010

I love Thanksgiving!  Food, family, football....EVERYTHING that goes along with it.  This year was a little EXTRA special, though, because my Grandma Lenore from Minnesota was in town as well as my bro, Chad, and his fam.  Chad, Michelle, and Selah (our niece) stayed with us and the boys (Rees & Cole) and my Grandma Lenore stayed with my parents.  We had such great family time and would spend the days all together.  The time went way too fast, but we made the most of it!    

Grandma Lenore got into town before Chad & Michelle, so we had her and my parents over for dinner her first night here.  It was her first time meeting Corban...SO SPECIAL!  She is HONESTLY (as she always says) the sweetest lady on earth.  I love her SO MUCH!!!  It was her first Thanksgiving without my Grandpa Bob, so we were so glad to have her with us as I know it was a hard one.

Great Grandma "Nore" - meeting Corban for the 1st time!

So precious...

Hadley loves GG Nore and her singing :)

Corban also met "Sofie La Giraffe" that night for his teething!

---THANKSGIVING DAY ---

The kiddos - not smiling for mom of course ;)

H's 1st bite of REAL Thanksgiving food!

Hadley with 2 of her Great Grandma's
Great-Grandma Lenore & Great-Grandma Donna
(reading, "Are You My Mother?")

---HADLEY & SELAH---

Hadley & her cousin, Selah, are only 3 months apart (Selah is older).  It was so fun to have them together!  ALTHOUGH...Hadley got to learn what it was like to have an older kid around.  HA!  Selah is used to having 2 older brothers so she thought it was her turn to be in charge!  For the most part, they had a GREAT time together and we know it will only get more fun the older they get!  

Hadley showing Selah the ropes of playing on Koda

@ the Christmas tree farm

This is just classic - blue M&M dripping out of her mouth
"Sezilla" is so scary ;)

---CHRISTMAS TREE FARM---

It is a tradition for us to go with my parents to Snowshoe Evergreen Christmas Tree Farm the day after Thanksgiving and get our trees!  My family grew up going there and last year (before we had moved back to Western WA), we started the tradition with my parents of going with them the day after Thanksgiving (see MY 2009 TREE FARM BLOG POST from last year to compare Hadley's size).  

I don't think she was standing all the way back
cause she is almost 3'! 

The Lindos

Christie, Mocha, & Jason

Dad, Gma Lenore, Mom & Rees

Chad, Michelle, Cole, Rees & Selah

---GROUP PIC (MINUS CHRIS)---

It is always a feat to get a group photo of the whole gang when we are all together, and this year it happened to be on a day that Chris had to work...but we figured it was better than nothing!!!