Thanksgiving 2014

We had a great Thanksgiving with both of our families!

As usual, we kicked off the holiday with the Zukowski's on Wednesday night!




As you can see, Luke Skywalker joined us for dinner!

And we had the cutest centerpiece :)

Silly Paigey!



Napkins can be entertaining!

And then Luke found the mustaches :)



Hi Bright Eyes!



A Thanksgiving story as told by Paige!



Thursday started with lunch at Grammy & Papa's and these two crazy girls!

Ty was looking very spiffy!







An attempt at a grandkids pic! Not too bad!

Not a fan of broccoli!





The cutest kids' table!



After lunch, we headed over to my grandparents for a bit!





And then it was back to Grammy & Papa's for drinks & dessert with the Kohr's!

JJ & Paige - just 2 weeks apart in age!



Oh, hey!



Thanksgiving Day is exhausting!

It was a fun Thanksgiving that ended with our tradition of Black Friday shopping and celebrating Grammy's birthday!

Lunch at Mi Margarita after some shopping!



These two little girls were troopers!



We finished our Thanksgiving weekend by putting up our Christmas decorations! 

Daddy had a special little elf helping him this year!



Once the decorations were up, it was time to watch Polar Express & drink hot chocolate as we have done the last few years!



Unfortunately, Paige was sick on Saturday & Sunday with a high fever and didn't get to help much with the decorating. In fact, she slept for 4 hours Saturday afternoon - poor baby girl! :(

This guy has been thoroughly enjoying his walker!

And he wondered if this is what we do with these ornaments!

We are all ready for the next holiday & all of the fun Christmas activities we have planned!

Thanksgiving 2013

Our Thanksgiving kicked off on the Tuesday before with Luke's Thanksgiving Feast at school!

Luke was looking handsome as usual that morning!





Buddies!



Wednesday we headed to Grandma & Grandpa Zukowski's house to celebrate Thanksgiving!

This picture is hilarious!



And this is the "smile" I get from Paige a lot these days!



Who doesn't want a cookie as big as their head?!?!



We had a great evening with the Zukowski's!

The next morning we watched the parade on tv and then headed to my grandparent's for some more Thanksgiving feasts!



And sadly, that was the last picture I took all day. (November seems to always be a light month of pictures for me.) We did have a great rest of the day though. After my grandparent's, we went back to my parents' house to celebrate with the Kohr side. This is always crazy as every year there are more kids and they get bigger and louder! Always a fun time though!

Thanksgiving Weekend

This is what the morning after Thanksgiving looked like:


The girls headed out for some Black Friday shopping, while Luke went to a movie with Grandma and Grandpa Z.

We had the most amazing thing happen when we were out to lunch though - a table of complete strangers picked up our bill, which had to be at least $70.  We couldn't believe it!  Paige was flirting with the guy the entire meal, the guy said goodbye as they were leaving, and then the waitress came over and told us that table had paid for our meals and included the tip - amazing!  We all had chills!  What made it even more interesting was that morning Carly had paid for the person behind her in the Starbuck's drive thru as she was coming to Peru from Madison.  Pay it forward!!!

Anyways - we had a great day of shopping and both Fiona and Paige were very good!  They slept at the right times in their strollers and were perfect little shoppers!







I got quite a few strange looks since Paige didn't have any socks or shoes on, but she kept taking them off so I finally left them off while we were in the mall!



That night we headed to Mi Margarita to celebrate my mom's birthday as we do every Friday after Thanksgiving!

Before we left my parents on Saturday, Luke & Paige needed a bath and Fiona came in for a bit too!





Next up was heading back up to the suburbs for Lilly Happ's 1st birthday party! And of course that was the night that Notre Dame finished their season undefeated - Wally was very happy!





I began bringing up some Christmas decorations that day, but the decorating really began on Sunday.  Wally put the outside lights up and we got both trees up. 

As is our tradition, we put on The Polar Express for the first time this year and had some hot chocolate.  This time though, we took our hot chocolate to go and ended our Thanksgiving weekend with a walk to see some Christmas lights and show the kids our own Christmas lights!

Thankful!

I am so thankful for all of the blessings in my life - and there are many! 

This year we spent our Thanksgiving the same as we have the past few years.  First up, was Zukowski Thanksgiving on Wednesday night.

Paige was very interested in the pilgrims...


while Luke was busy with castle grayskull.






All ready on Thanksgiving Day!


So sweet!




Maybe someday we will get a good picture of all three grandkids! Oh Paige!





Cuteness!








The next stop was my grandparents where Paige enjoyed some horsey rides on Logan!

And then it was back to my parents for some dessert with the Kohr's!

And there it is - Paige's nasty look she shows quite often!

Paige found a new seat!

Sophie was busted jumping on the bed!