Thanksgiving

This past week has been fun and a little crazy. The first half of the week I felt like I was in the car all the time. I picked up my step sister Tuesday evening from the airport. Then the next morning I got up early and went down to Olympia to pick up my sister Jessica and niece Emily. Jessica was buying her 1st car in Seattle so I took her to pick it up. We got home about 3:30 in the afternoon and the kids were so excited to have Emily here! We then started baking! We decided it would be easier to make all the pies for Thanksgiving that evening. So we ended up making a German Chocolate cake (for my mom's birthday, which was on Thanksgiving), a pear pie, pumpkin pie, pumpkin log, and an apple pie. We only had 13 people for dinner, but in my humble opinion, you can NEVER have to much pie!

Emma and Emily were so funny! Emma ended up wearing Emily's clothes and Emily ended up in Emma's. Then to make it even more confusing they wanted their hair done in the exact some way! We all kept calling Emily "Emma....ly" cause we had to stop and think about who it was.

My brother Joshua is the "favorite" uncle around our house. Daniel wouldn't let him alone all day!

My mom in the kitchen cooking dinner. We had so much food!

Thanksgiving was also my mom's birthday so we had a little celebration later in the evening with cake and ice cream.

I thought this picture was funny with Noah eating his cake, I think he was the only one who really had a whole piece of cake as we were all so full from dinner and pies!

On Friday morning my mom, Tedra and I got up way to early (4:15am) and went out shopping. We got everything we needed and were home again by 6:30am. It was nice to have more people to go out with and it saves a lot of time having someone stand in line while you run and grab things. I think we spent more time standing in line waiting for the stores to open then we spent in the store itself. Later in the day we decorated the tree for Christmas. The kids always have so much fun with this! You will notice in the video I kept taking ornaments off the tree and placing them in other spots on the tree. The kids kept putting ALL the ornaments on the same three branches which were beginning to look a little crowded. It was a fun few day and it was really nice having Kendall home for 4 whole days!