Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm a day late. :cD It's ok, we're still celebrating Thanksgiving with another dinner today, so I'm still in the mode. It's Elijah's first Thanksgiving and we have much to celebrate. You need a couple days for that!

Perhaps I've mentioned, perhaps not, but Elijah *loves* to eat. I mean loves, Loves, LOVES to eat.
He was so excited watching the food cook. Everything smelled so wonderful he just couldn't wait!
He even licked the glass on the front of the stove a few times and banged on the door as if to say, "Hurry up in there!!"

We had a wonderful and relaxing afternoon at my Mom's house. The food was very yummy and I probably ate too much, but Thanksgiving dinner was my only meal all day just for that reason. :cD Elijah ate and ate and ate. I think Papa John was his best friend for a while. Elijah ate a bunch of pumpkin mousse, an entire roll plus some of my Mom's roll, some bits of turkey, some jello salad, I think some corn pudding and who knows what else. He was unstoppable. Perhaps this will be his favorite holiday?

Here are my gorgeous guys in a bit of a Turkey stupor. ;c) It's nap time, dontchaknow? I didn't get many pictures, since all I had was the camera in my phone. My brother got some that were cute and I'm sure I'll get some more today. I'm going to do my best to remember my camera this time.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We have so, so much to be thankful for this year. We are truly blessed.

Veterans Day

I chaperoned a field trip to watch the parade today. I think the entire Primary School walked down the hill and into downtown. I love our cute little town.

(You see this guy driving this cute old truck all over town.)

Sheri was in the parade. :c) (Pink coat right in the middle.)

There are a few more pictures in the gallery. We really loved all the old cars.

A month in review

I did it, again. I slipped back into my habit of the once-a-month update. I'll work on that. ;c)

The past month has been quite full. Elijah has had a great month! He was discharged from physical therapy on the 16th. Since then he has started pulling up on things higher than his eye-level, moving his feet and cruising a little, sitting on his knees in the middle of the room unassisted, and he climbed up two stairs. Time to start putting up the baby gate. ;c) He also has started making the sign for "milk" and started waving "bye". He's doing so well!


The rest of us are doing great, too, but a few of the family passed around a cold. It missed me, for the most part, but Kirk got a bad cold just in time to leave town for several days. We had a fun Halloween. The kids had a good time. :c) We finished it all out with me getting strep throat this week. :cP I'm feeling a bit better, now, but I'm still on the mend.


We've got lots going on this month and next, like every other family, but I'm going to try to be better about posting more often. :cD Happy holiday season, everyone!