Our family had a real low key Sunday. We are all feeling a little run down and under the weather....so it was a much pj wearing, movie watching, laying around-kind of day! Lovely.
Around 2, we all got dressed and threw the house back together before heading out to the Burdges for Turkey dinner #1. It was a nice drive....stopped for a coffee, and on our way we started talking about our friends Steve and Nic....i was hoping they were having a nice thanksgiving though they are both far from their families and we were looking forward to turkey dinner #2 with them on monday.
Fast forward 15 minutes when we pull into the driveway and see Steve standing at the top of the driveway, giving us a big hearty wave!! WHA??! Yup....Nic was already almost in the house while the girls were playing with the cousins!! Turns our super sis in law had invited them to dinner that morning at church after finding out they had no plans that evening. It was such a great surprise...i love having in laws who are happy to have any one who needs a family to come and share ours.......
SO, the Burdge Thanksgiving started with a walk with the parents and their kids down to the beach. I wish i had brought the camera....because it was nice with the 6 of us watching all of our kids run down the road together.....such nice kids.
Marg was super woman putting this huge dinner together for everyone....they have been working like mad with bathroom renovations to be finished by this weekend for the big dinner. And its not until you are an adult that you realize how much work and money goes into putting a dinner like this on.
When we got back from the walk....Marg had put together a 'harvest hunt' for the kids around the house. She armed all the kids with baskets and set them loose in the house to look for boxes of raisons, little pouches of seeds, fruit snacks {she got things that are healthy that they could put in their lunches}. Elliot loves these hunts....so thats who inspired her!
Around 2, we all got dressed and threw the house back together before heading out to the Burdges for Turkey dinner #1. It was a nice drive....stopped for a coffee, and on our way we started talking about our friends Steve and Nic....i was hoping they were having a nice thanksgiving though they are both far from their families and we were looking forward to turkey dinner #2 with them on monday.
Fast forward 15 minutes when we pull into the driveway and see Steve standing at the top of the driveway, giving us a big hearty wave!! WHA??! Yup....Nic was already almost in the house while the girls were playing with the cousins!! Turns our super sis in law had invited them to dinner that morning at church after finding out they had no plans that evening. It was such a great surprise...i love having in laws who are happy to have any one who needs a family to come and share ours.......
SO, the Burdge Thanksgiving started with a walk with the parents and their kids down to the beach. I wish i had brought the camera....because it was nice with the 6 of us watching all of our kids run down the road together.....such nice kids.
Marg was super woman putting this huge dinner together for everyone....they have been working like mad with bathroom renovations to be finished by this weekend for the big dinner. And its not until you are an adult that you realize how much work and money goes into putting a dinner like this on.
When we got back from the walk....Marg had put together a 'harvest hunt' for the kids around the house. She armed all the kids with baskets and set them loose in the house to look for boxes of raisons, little pouches of seeds, fruit snacks {she got things that are healthy that they could put in their lunches}. Elliot loves these hunts....so thats who inspired her!
Happy Adessa!!
Big dinner....{i am not liking my editing program since i had to get rid of photoshop....back on the learning curve.....}.....but here we all are! Gordon threw us all off by talking about some history of thanksgiving-Laura and I had already compared notes to what we were going to say we were thankful for!! {which is a yearly tradition!}.
He also read us some statistics of people around the world in regards to how we compare with health, wealth. Its very humbling and we really have no idea how fortunate and blessed we really are. But here we all are, healthy family and lovely friends and loads of good food....the only thing that would have made it better would have been having my family here too.
Isaac and Wren......i love these two together. Very creative and fun spirits....
Flora.....so nice to have here come up for Thanksgiving.
Chris was asked nicely by me to take a picture of laura and I....he decides to fiddle with all the buttons on the camera, adjust things....after awhile, i can't smile anymore while he fiddles...so i get mad. Well, here is the shot the boy got....my eyes are closed and he is yelling 'show me your teeth when you smile!!'...i figure if i had fangs i would have shown them to him then.....grr..laura found it amusing.
Steve and Adessa.....
After dinner gordon did giant monster airplanes with the kids with his drafting paper....hilarious to watch these monsters soar through the air - we all got out of the way....
Isaac was the biggest fan of the giant paper planes....
i don't know what Mike is doing here, but it makes me laugh when i look at it.
Who knows where Wren gets it from??
Near the end of the evening, Ava crawled up on Margs lap for a back rub...i thought it was terribly sweet...but marg has asked to not be in the blog because she doesn't like the pictures, so out of respect, you will just have to picture how sweet it was to see a little grand daughter crawl up on grandmas lap with a full belly and lots of playing all done....getting her back rubbed.
It was a nice night.....
