More Thanksgiving Pictures

These pictures are all from Sara's camera.

Time to check the sweet potato suffle. That's me.



There's Poppi, this is his first full day (up and about) out of his easy chair since last week Wednesday. He's still tired and in pain, but being a good sport about it. Aunt Carol and Anne are on the right. Aunt Carol made the sweet potato suffle. It was Zach's favorite part of the meal.


Here Claudelle is a captive "new" audience for Zachary's Lego building stories.


Zayla is busy "cooking" too... she's been carrying around a plastic spoon and dishes for a few days now. She likes to act out cooking and eating. Would you believe, she ate raw green peppers? She can't be my child! :)

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Sara and Zayla, "chillin out".


I love this pic of Zayla's expression. Sometimes she laughs and we wonder what she's thinking.

Daddy's girl.

I think this one is before dinner, just hanging out in the living room visiting.

After Dinner...

After we ate, we all felt stuffed and needed to get up, so we (Ladies) hung out in the kitchen mostly and chatted while doing dishes... I'm not sure what the guys did. Rumor had it that they napped. Later, when we flet a little more up to it, we had dessert and sang "Happy Birthday!" to Grandma. She had a non-dairy, birthday, pumkin pie... by Sara.

Auntie Sara even read stories! She's amazing.

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's Thanksgiving day and we have so much to be thankful for!





We got together at Grandma and Poppi's. We hung out. Aunt Carol, Cousin Anne, Auntie Sara, Uncle P.C., and Sara's friend Claudelle were all there too.






Here's Zoe with one of her placemats.






There was a BIG Turkey! PC helped carve. And Peter helped collect the stuffing.

It's about time for the leaves to fall down!

Well, these were from the 13th of November. We had just gotten over the stomach flu and the weather happened to be really nice outside. Just enough leaves had fallen for us to make a little pile and jump in. The kids worked together (mostly) and really enjoyed being outside.


Zayla was really curious about the feel of the leaves under her feet.



Zach & Zoe really wanted Zayla to jump in too, but she wasn't sure how to do that. So Zach helped a little.






When we were done playing we raked up two big bags of leaves to take out to the trash.

Art Projects

Zoe loves doing craft projects. If she had her way we'd be doing them every day. She learned how to make these placemats at her neighborhood art class with Mr. Bill. She later insisted that we get more supplies to make more placemats at home for Thanksgiving dinner. At home, Zachary got to help too. Zayla cooperated by taking a nap.

Awana Cubbies

Song and Story time

Snack time


Silly time


Zoe and Mommy get to have lots of fun at Awana Cubbies. We have lots of friends there. We have play time, song time, puppet time, story time, snack time, and verse time. Once in awhile we get to have game time too. Here are some pictures of our fun.

Poppi

We really like it when Poppi and Grandma are in town cause we get to hang out with them and Mom can run errands (all by herself). Zayla and Poppi enjoyed a time of rocking and singing together while Mom was out one day.

Our Floor Project

Ok, some of you have heard of our summer project refinishing windows... We never did take any pictures of that one, but now we are working on removing the carpeting in our living room, hallway/foyer, and dining room. We are hoping that will help with Zoe's allergy / asthma problems. So here is a picture of us working together to scrape up the disintegrated foam padding that has fused itself to the floor finish over the years. Zoe has nicknamed the stuff "cheese".

Our Trick or Treat Tradition

Here are our friends Scott as Optimus Prime, Rachel as a Butterfly, Andrew as Thomas the Tank Engine... and us... Zach as a Space Pilot, Zoe as Ming Ming the Duck, Zayla as a Pink Poodle and Peter as Robinhood.