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Thanksgiving

It's the week before Christmas and all through the house....I realize I've been a bad blogger, as quiet as a mouse. (Okay, I won't quit my day job...)

But seriously -- it's been so crazy, I've got some catch up posting to do! Thanksgiving was a nice long weekend this year. Late in November, but still fun. We kicked off the eat til you puke season with the Stockment side on the 16th. The kids had a BLAST at Luke & Karlie's and we got some great pics of these two cuties...
Brooks Benakovich & Keaton -- just a mere month apart in age!
Colton had such a good time playing basketball with Isaac ... that he fell asleep on the way home. I have no idea how he managed to sleep like this...

Sore neck, anyone?
Colton got to take part in his Thanksgiving Feast at school. I worked hard to create a cute little Indian costume for him, as they were to either dress as a Pilgrim or Indian. He left the house that morning looking like this.
Yes, he's pretending to pick his nose. He's a 5 year old boy. Apparently, that's cool.
When I got there to help, I anxiously waited as all the cute little Pilgrims and Indian's filed in. Imagine my dismay (okay...down right pissed-off-ed-ness) when my little Indian walked in dress like a civilian. Apparently, the teacher said you didn't HAVE to wear your costume, so he stripped it all off after the group picture that morning. GO FIGURE!
We still had fun...costume or no. And he ate like a champ!
Thanksgiving day came and we headed to Aunt Nina's to be with the Hall side. FUN DAY...that spawned Mom & I to feed the consumer nightmare, and head out shopping. We hated the thought behind it, but did find a few deals, and had a great time people watching!
This was 11:30pm. She was still going strong!!!

We also came across these $11 candy bars...they were HUGE.
Keaton reached a new milestone on Thanksgiving day -- we couldn't let the little guy just watch us eat all day -- so we fed him his first go of rice cereal with a spoon. He loved it!
First bites. Messy, but good!
He was less thrilled with the cute Turkey Headband.




All in all - it was a wonderful Thanksgiving. We spent the rest of the weekend getting in the Christmas spirit, since, well, we didn't have much time to make that transition.

Friday night we had a Christmas Jammie Party with Sawyer & new baby Ryder. Such great kids -- we had a fun night watching Elf on the Shelf and playing!
Sunday was the Robinson Thanksgiving, and then back to work! Love those stretches of days off to enjoy with the kiddos! They come and go far too quickly! However, this season, we had three wonderful reasons to be thankful -- and we enjoyed them as much as we could!

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