Thanksgiving 2011

We headed up to Fort Smith for Thanksgiving this year. My mom and sisters went to Germany, Dad was in China and Ben stayed in Lawrence to work...so we went and stayed with Gwen and the kids. We were able pick up Sara and take her with and spend the whole week with her...it was so nice to have all the girls together.

Sara got Kali to play with her hair on the car ride....jealous! I would love to have someone play with mine.

Once we got to Gwen's someone of us passed out on the couch...

some of us went and read some books...

and some of us put reindeer antlers on and had a blast. :)

Yes they decided that they wanted to take Garrett's mattress off his bed and use it to slide down the stairs..Aunt Gwen said it was ok so they collected a bunch of blankets and pillows and put them at the bottom on the stairs for something to fall into..Let me just state that I  Sara still has a somewhat broken ankle so of course I had to voice my concern about that but you can see how far that went :) 

The mosh pit

I love Garrett's face...he was having a blast! Poor kid didn't weigh enough that sometimes he went faster than the mattress! 

They went down every way imaginable and happy to report that aside from the already semi broken ankle, we had no other injuries!

Gwen had to work the Wednesday before Thanksgiving so I offered to watch all the kiddos..so Nanny, being the awesome Nanny she is, she came over to hang out with us as well.

Cousins hanging out

Nanny introduced Presley to the cold water bottle...she loved it on her gums.

I love this little girl :) 

Already planning on how they are going to give me MORE gray hairs!

The day before Thanksgiving I took the girls "Christmas shopping" (will explain later)..Sara curled Kali's hair and it turned out so cute. 

I found a cute Thanksgiving shirt on Pinterest that I wanted to make for Presley for her first Thanksgiving..and since it was so cute, I had one made for Gina as well...they were too cute in their matching shirts :)

Our first Thanksgiving together :) 

While we were home, Presley got to spend some time with her BFF. I swear they look like an old couple..holding hands and all, lol. 

Didn't take any pics on Thanksgiving, but it was fun. We had lunch at Mimi and Papa's, then back to Gwen's later that afternoon for dinner with Linda's side. There was a house full and was a lot of fun.