Thanksgiving Part 2

Christina put together a really fun game of "Minute to Win it" for everyone after Thanksgiving dinner.  She played show host and the rest of the adults split up into teams and competed with simple little games to see who could complete them within a minute.  It was hilarious, thanks for organizing it Christina!

Mom had a knack for this game.  You had to get an oreo from your forehead and into your mouth without using your hands.

The kids didn't last long before just eating their oreos. ;-)

That evening most of us headed to the outlet malls for black friday shopping at midnight while the kids slept.  It was really fun and not all that busy.  We made it home by 2:30am and were crazy enough to get up early and head downtown Seattle for the Macy's parade.

At least one of us got a nap!

We were feeling ambitious, so we headed to the a Christmas tree display and a gingerbread house display at some fancy hotels.

Camille has perfected her grumpy face.

Other festivities included seeing Catching Fire, and a guy's outing while the girls stayed home and made a harlem shake video and did manicures.  We came home from our Thanksgiving trip exhausted but we had such a wonderful time.  

Thanksgiving Part 1

I found some motivation today to start catching up with my blog finally.  I don't think it gets read by many, but I love having it to look back at and have a few stories and pictures to document our life and what we have been up to.  Thanksgiving 2013 we spent with our Wilson family.  It was our last hurrah with all of my siblings at home for the last time. Bittersweet as my parents had their house on the market and were about to move across the country after spending 26 years in Seattle.  I will miss the home I spent most of my childhood in and I will miss being close to my parents even more!

A few pics the week before we left:

Making pies with Grandma the day before Thanksgiving

Master chef in the kitchen....making her first german chocolate cream pie!

Power nap before the big feast

Checking out black friday ads.

These two were in charge of the mashed potatoes.

We made a fun kid's table and drew on their placemats and let them decorate them.  Grandma found some fun Thanksgiving coloring kits they enjoyed too.

I made some easy placemats for the adults that we could write down a few things we were thankful for.

Logan made some cute name tags for everyone

Some of the spread.   Yummmm

I love that my brothers are all so great with kids and genuinely love spending time with them.  I'm sure their wives love it even more :)

Tryptophan has set in, Courtney and Winslow settle down for a siesta.