With Ben’s cousin Jeff and his wife, Anniele, in town over the holiday weekend we got a babysitter and went for a night out on the town. Where did we go you ask? Wegman’s, the local grocery store! haha It really is a cool place because it has so many different foods to choose from. The three of them chose sushi, which I hate, and I ate a salad.
We love when people come visit us!
I LOVE Thanksgiving! It is such a wonderful holiday full of food, family, and friends. Combine those three sitting around a table while talking about all of the things that you are grateful for, it doesn’t get better than that! This year Ben cousin Jeff and his wife Anniele flew out from Utah to spend the holiday weekend with us. We love them!
The past two years we have gone over to the Stoker’s house (Ben’s 2nd cousins) for Thanksgiving. Carol makes EVERYTHING from scratch and we have never eaten better food. This year with Jeff and Anniele coming we decided to invite the Stoker’s to our house for dinner. Let me just tell you that I will never think of Thanksgiving the same again. All of these years I’ve always thought of things that I am grateful for but sadly I think I have taken the actual dinner itself for granted. Cooking this year was so much work. I love cooking so it wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy it because I really did. It’s just that it was exhausting and I never realized the effort that went into it. So thank you to everyone who has ever made anything that I have eaten on Thanksgiving. 🙂 Namely Mom, Chenie, LaRae and Carol. Wow you are angels!
Hallie only ate rolls. haha All that good food and the only thing she likes are the rolls. She is funny with textures and she never eats meat. She didn’t even like any pie!
Turkey
Homemade rolls
Fruit salad
Homemade Cranberry sauce
Mash potatoes (15 pounds to be exact. Yes we have a lot left over!)
Sweet potato surprises (Aunt Tammy’s recipe)
Homemade Stuffing
Green beans
Homemade pies: Pecan, Lemon Meringue, Apple
Pumpkin bars
Thank you Carol for once again blessing us with your Turkey, rolls and fruit salad. We sure love you!
This daughter of mine better end up in the olympics for the amount of coordination she has. Here are some of her latest feats.
I can’t believe my little guy is 4 months old. He is our chunker for sure! He is starting to show his personality more and more and I love it! He is a smily little guy and we all get a kick out of his laugh. He is getting really good with his hands and he loves playing with toys. Ben was really anxious to try him on oatmeal cereal. We have fed him three times (well I should say Hallie fed him) and he did really good with it. However, I don’t think I’m going to be consistent with it because he is obviously getting enough food. 🙂 He is sleeping good at night. He usually does 4-5 hour intervals which I am grateful for. He even slept one whole night through. My body is used to waking up during the night so when I did and knew he hadn’t gotten up yet I panicked, said a prayer, and went to check on him. Now that I know he can go the whole night I think I’m ready to sleep train him. Here’s to hoping it goes fast and easy.
Here are some pictures for you to enjoy of my fat little guy!
Oh how I love him!