Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving. Gregg's brother Chris came over with his wife Penny and their daughters Courtney and Ashley. Gregg's mom Kathy was here this year as well. Carter had so much fun playing with the girls all day that he fell asleep right before dinner. He woke up in time to fill up before dessert though. His favorite part was the cranberry sauce and the yams. Kyle loved ALL of the food, especially dessert. We all had a lot of good food and a lot of fun!

Here is Kyle enjoying dinner.

Here he is really enjoying his apple pie!


Gregg and Carter also enjoying pie.

Uncle Chris gave lots of pony rides!

Kyle put on Ashley's coat and the boys

wanted me to take their picture.

Family Photo

Like most busy families we do a family picture one time a year. We did this years picture last week with the help of my good friend Nicole. We got up really early so that we could get everyone ready, pick up Nicole, and get the picture before nap time. We drove out to the field where we like to walk the dogs and the boys were really excited. That is until Carter saw the camera and Kyle saw that he wasn't going to get to run free. Gregg spent most of the time tickling and entertaining Kyle, while I tried to keep Carter from hiding his head in my chest, and poor Nicole tried to get even one normal picture. Finally after several different poses and attempts we sat down on a blanket. I asked Carter if he could see the elephant that was hiding in the trees behind Nicole. That worked! He forgot all about hiding from the camera and focused on finding the elephant. He even thought he saw it a couple of times. In the end we were able to get a few good shots, and I remembered why we only do this once a year.

"Don't even think about taking my picture!"

Carter pointing to the elephant.

Definitely Daddies Boy