Ashland Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year, we went down to Ashland for the weekend. I was going to say that for the first time in 12 years, we were all home together for Thanksgiving, but I can't even say that since Camille wasn't with us as she's in Chicago on her mission. Hopefully it won't be 12 more years before we make another attempt, but it might be. We had a great time playing together, and of course eating Mom's delicious Thanksgiving dinner! These pictures of us are downtown Ashland Friday evening for the lighting ceremony.

David put up Mom and Dad's Christmas lights on Saturday, and Landon went outside to help him. He now asks everyday when we are going to put up our Christmas lights! The boys had a lot of fun playing the Wii, especially the Olympic Games one.



All of us girls didn't just play all weekend because we had to work hard shopping! In this picture, we are all looking through the ads, making our lists and mapping out our route for Friday morning. We left the house at 5 am Friday morning and got home at 2, after visiting 15 different stores! It was quite the shopping trip! But we all got some great deals, and as Becky said on the way home, we were basically making money going shopping because of how much we saved!!! :)


The above pictures are of the boys playing in their "turkey bowl," and Landon playing in the leaves while watching the game. While they played, I was lucky enough to see Emilee and her cute three kids at my house. It was so fun to visit with her!!! We just wish we could have seen Dave too!

As you can see from these last pictures, we especially enjoyed having the two little babies around. Mom was quite the pro at taking care of both of them as it took her back to the days of the two little twinners, David and Camille. In the one picture, she has all her three grandkids tacklng her! I think Landon was laughing and the other two weren't so sure if they liked it. :) Davis and Kallie were pretty cute chillin' in their high chairs and double stroller together. In the high chairs, if one of them ran out of food, he or she would just reach over to the other one's high chair and grab some more! They seemed to get along pretty good, even after Kallie tackled Davis when trying to pass him while they were standing next to each other! We are so glad we could spend this vacation together and just wish we could have been with more of our family!