Thanksgiving Fun

We had a great Thanksgiving this year....just our family! It was very laid back and relaxing, which is just what we needed. Justin has been super busy this Q4 at Amazon and we needed some quiet time together.

Here is an awesome castle that Dylan built

And we went to a little program that Dylan put on with his preschool class mates. It was so cute!

Dylan eating his Thanksgiving feast at preschool

Here is Dylan teaching Weston what big boxes are for

And here are the big kids and I making home made pies for Thanksgiving.

It takes a lot of muscles to roll out the dough!

Here we are Thanksgiving morning. The kids were busy making turkey name tags for everyone while I whipped up our Thanksgiving meal.

Each kid was pretty proud of their unique turkeys

Brandon used his origami skills to make this turkey with a monster beak!

Justin helped Dylan with his

And here was the feast!

Happy Thanksgiving!

It was a gorgeous sunny day, so after we got over the afternoon sleepiness from all that turkey, we went to the park

The kids loved trying out the tennis skills

We played some games, and ate pie! Yum!

And here is the puzzle that we finished the next morning. The girls helped out a lot with it.

Here is Lindsey showing off the cute turkey pine cone she made at Activity Day Girls

And here is the lovely mess that (mostly) Weston made with the new toilet paper from Costco. :)

What a fun weekend!

Brandon's Dance Concert

We really enjoyed going to Brandon's dance concert at the end of November. It was Christmas themed, and everyone did a great job! His dance team did a Hawaiian dance which was awesome! He even got to jump on the back of another boy to pose at the end of the song. I was sad we couldn't video tape it though.

Here is Brandon with his friend Makayla

And here we are after the show celebrating with some Dairy Queen treats

Weston loved sampling all of the different flavors. Yum!

Weston turns One!!

I really don't know where the past year has flown off to. Can my baby really be one already? It seems impossible, but that's what the calendar says. 

We sure love this boy and we're so happy he's in our family!

Weston's birthday was a super crazy day.....I won't go into all the craziness here, but I was glad when the afternoon hit and I was able to focus on my birthday boy and getting ready for our little family party.

Here we are trying to get a good picture of him a couple of days before his birthday

He looks at people like this all the time. It's so funny!

And here are some of the faces of Weston while he eats his birthday breakfast of Cheerios and bananas....

He loves it when Daddy comes home from work and can't crawl to him fast enough. It's official. He said his first word on his first birthday and it was......Dada!

I love you Justin! :)

Singing the Happy Birthday chorus

Weston thought it was weird that we kept telling him to tear the wrapping paper. Mixed messages!

And here he is....eating his first bites of birthday cake

He had a large, enthusiastic audience

All done, ready to get washed up.

Happy birthday sweet boy! We sure love you!