We celebrated Thanksgiving on Wednesday so Blake could eat with us. It was awesome because Thanksgiving we didn't have to cook at all (except making pie and more mashed potatoes) and we ate turkey 3 times. dinner lunch dinner.
Apple pie, Andrew's request.
Candied sweet potatoes were Anne's request.
I love how Blake wears his new Cardinals t-shirt everywhere. We're such fair-weather fans--we've lived here for 4 years but once they won the big one in October, Blake finally got a t-shirt.
We went for a turkey trot with the kids since Blake was working and I couldn't let Andrew and Anne run without me! Usually James is such a peaceful running companion. I love to take just him because he will just sit and watch the cars pass. Isaac will usually complain "I don't want to go to the park! It's too cold, mommy! Goldfish! ..." but ironically during the race Isaac was silent the whole time just watching everyone and the other strollers and dogs and James cried off and on. yes, it's me again, the lady with the crying kids. Sometimes it feels like it's always me. He may have been cold--it was unusually chilly that morning. We took turns pushing the stroller (2 miles each) but it didn't slow down Andrew or Anne at all. I however, am not used to running fast so I was dead when we finished our 6 miles in under an hour. ok, I know that's not fast at all but I was still dying.
My first real race ever!
That afternoon we went for a lovely walk in Forest Park. It's always so lovely there.
I love this--my 6'2" brother stooping over helping 2' tall James walk.
Mouth full of his staple--peanut butter sandwich.
We went to Pappy's (bbq), which was totally worth the 30 minute wait, and went on walks and played games and watched movies. It's always nice to have family in our house --it makes it feel more like home. And it is hard when they leave. It's getting colder and looking more like Christmas around here. I snapped some pictures of what our home looks around this time.
Blake really wanted a full-size tree this year so we bought the cheapest one we could find to last us a couple years. It does the job.
I've never had stockings since we've never been here for Christmas, but since we're not going to Utah this year, I am making some. One done, three to go. Not sure I'll make it, but as long as we have at least two we'll be good, right?
Isaac is in a backpack phase right now. He stuffs it with stuffed animals and clothes and whatever and he'll pack it all over. I've started leaving his clothes down on the washing machine because I'm so tired of his clothes getting all over the house. He's loving the Christmas season and taking off a link in our countdown chain every day. He makes us laugh when he says things like "Happy Birthday Jesus" or "mommy, you fooled the fire department. you be in time out." (Curious George)
Blake really wanted a full-size tree this year so we bought the cheapest one we could find to last us a couple years. It does the job.
I've never had stockings since we've never been here for Christmas, but since we're not going to Utah this year, I am making some. One done, three to go. Not sure I'll make it, but as long as we have at least two we'll be good, right?
Isaac is in a backpack phase right now. He stuffs it with stuffed animals and clothes and whatever and he'll pack it all over. I've started leaving his clothes down on the washing machine because I'm so tired of his clothes getting all over the house. He's loving the Christmas season and taking off a link in our countdown chain every day. He makes us laugh when he says things like "Happy Birthday Jesus" or "mommy, you fooled the fire department. you be in time out." (Curious George)James is still holding on to my hand to walk. I don't mind following him around everywhere but I do think he' not giving himself enough credit because he could totally rock the walking thing. He loves balls and that was his third word--after mom and dad. And now he's becoming enchanted with balloons. He will make a beeline down the hill of our playground to the balloons that say "lease today!". We went to a party yesterday and took a balloon home and he calls it "ba-oo". Cutest. Never gets old.
2 comments:
Your kids may be pills at times, but at least they are dang cute! :) That stroller pic with James' double chin killed me! Callum is totally into backpacks too, but he just stuffs them with toys thankfully. And I love how you used "rock" (total Ann-ism) and "cutest" (total me-ism that i picked up from Laura) in the last sentence. We have rubbed off on you. :) Cutest!
Fun that you had Andrew and Anne there for Thanksgiving. And I'm impressed that you ran 6 miles in under an hour. A 10 minute mile especially pushing 2 kids in a stroller is not bad at all. I'm still working up the motivation to start exercising again and my baby is 11 months old. Those stockings are cute. And I think you will find that though you miss family there is something nice and relaxing about staying home and just having a simple Christmas with your little ones. That's how we've always done it. This is actually the first time in the four years we've lived away from Utah that we are going to be back there for Christmas Day. Too bad we'll miss you this year!
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