Happy Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving was fairly mellow this year and I was so excited to be able to have the whole holiday weekend off work! We started out our festivities a day early at my parents house on Wednesday night so that we (Jesse) could watch the Suns game with my Dad and eat some Little Caesar's pizzy together. While they cheered on the home team, I took Eli on a coupon clipping, grocery shopping adventure. The end results= saving over $100 between sales and coupons. It was such a fantastic feeling; perhaps I will have to try harder to do this more often!

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On Thanksgiving morning, Jesse got up early and played Football with a bunch of the guys from our neighborhood while I worked on cooking rolls, potatoes, and Apple Yums! We headed over to the parents house around mid-day and enjoyed yummy appetizers and then hours of delicious snacking followed by probably the best taking turkey I have ever had (no joke)

After dinner we played and then had a BUNCH of delicious pies made my Jesse's mom. Every year she makes around 7-8 pies and we all love to try each and every one of them. In years past we would always go to the movies for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but with the young kids we have had to alter this family tradition. This year we rented a movie and all sat together, bundled in blankets on the couch.

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After all our Thanksgiving fun it was off to bed for all of us. The next morning I did a little Black Friday shopping for the kids. I have to admit that last year I went all out with the shopping and this year I was just too darn tired to try that hard. I woke up around 6am and then got ready and went to a few stores. There were a few deals to be had, but for the most part I missed out on the really great stuff.

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Friday afternoon we headed to a friend dinner with Jesse's old high school friends. It was fun to catch up with them and kind of crazy to see how many kids there are between all of us. We then ran over to Jesse's parents for one final goodbye to Uncle Adam and then "home again home again jiggity jig" for bedtime once again.

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**thanks so much for this cute picture Uncle Adam**
This year for Thanksgiving we ate our feast at Nona and Papa's house.

My cute little E modeling his new tie

Joanna, Abbs, Miss M and Esther

Uncle Adam and Robby

Nona's yummy pies
This year was kind of special Thanksgiving for all of us. Jesse's brother, Adam, came in town from Boston. The last time we saw him was last Christmas when Eli was just a few days old. It was fun to see him and watch the kids get to know him once again. Maddie and Robby were practically in LOVE with him by the end of his visit and quite enjoyed the tickling, chasing, soccer kicking, and general rough housing he provided. It makes my heart happy to see them build these relationships with their Uncle. It was also neat to see him get to know our little E as well. Too bad he was only here for a few days and in too little time off he went to Boston. Unfortunately he works Christmas, so hopefully come Spring we will see him again. We sure love him!!!!
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All in all it was a great Thanksgiving