Thanksgiving

This year, we went to Ashland for Thanksgiving.  It had been a few years since we had been there, so it was fun to go and visit this year.  None of my siblings were able to make it this year, so we had my parents all to ourselves, so we could be fully spoiled by them. :)  We drove down Tuesday evening and came home Sunday afternoon.  Some of the fun things we did included going on a walk in Lithia Park, watching some fun Christmas specials, doing Thanksgiving crafts, the kids going to Science Works, Shane and I going to lunch and to the temple, going to the Christmas parade downtown Ashland and seeing the lights turn on, shopping till we dropped, going up in the mountains to cut down a Christmas tree, and of course, eating a DELICIOUS thanksgiving meal!

 

The boys were in charge of toasting the bread and tearing it up for the stuffing.  They were good workers, even though they got a little distracted half way through!

 

Above, Landon and Grandpa doing a turkey puzzle.  Below, playing Thanksgiving Bingo with Grandma.

 

The Thanksgiving table:

 

Our good friends Clause and Lesley came over for Thanksgiving dinner.  Lesley made these amazing hats for the boys!  She left a few details for them to add to personalize them, and the wore them during the dinner.  So cute!

More turkey puzzle, this time with Lesley’s help, and James just up from his nap:

   

In the evening, after Thanksgiving dinner, Landon and Davis sat here forever with my phone.  I realized later they were taking pictures of Grandma’s thankful tree on my camera.  They were pretty funny sitting there.

Here we are all bundled up Friday, drinking hot chocolate, and watching the Christmas parade:

 

Santa on the balcony just as he turned on the Christmas lights:

And finally, here are a few pictures of us cutting down our Christmas tree.  My parents found on fairly quick, but Shane and I were a little bit too picky and took way too long to decide!  We should have just taken one of the few great ones we found at the very first!  We did eventually find one, and the boys had fun playing in the little bits of snow we could find here and there along the way.

     

And finally, this wasn’t in Ashland, but here is a picture of our thankful door this year, organized alphabetically.  :)