Thanksgiving Blessings

We began our Thanksgiving festivities last weekend with my mom and step-dad. We were able to get the whole family together except for my step-brother who is currently in Mexico at a YWAM Mission Base. We were still able to talk to and "see" him via Skype, so that was a great way to get the holiday started. We had a lot of yummy food, of course, and the cousins had a great time together.

Thanksgiving morning we bent the rules a little and allowed the girls to eat breakfast in the living room on the couch while watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. What a way to get the day started.
Later in the day we headed off to Ada to see more family. The girls passed the time on the road with a few books and a couple of movies...
When we got to Ada the adults had a great time visiting the past while looking at pictures of ourselves long ago. This picture made us laugh hysterically. From left to right...Rachel, Jamie, Tara, Jared & Gina. Check out the hairdos and the clothes. Gotta love the 80's!
After a delicious dinner and lots of laughs, the evening calmed down and the kids all gathered around the TV to watch Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving...

We spent the night in Ada and headed out the next morning to come home. However, we took a long pause in the trip to visit the Jasmine Moran museum on the way. We visited once before back in July and couldn't wait to go again. If you've never been I highly recommend it! In my post of our previous visit I posted a ton of pics, but this time I just want to post a few of some of the new things we did...

Lily is the teacher. She wrote Daddy's name all by herself!!!

Zora adoring herself in the mirror with her face painted.

Even Daddy had a blast. Here he is enjoying the airplane cockpit.

The girls treated us to a puppet show.

Lily really enjoyed being a construction worker - really I think she just loved being in a huge box of rocks!
And this was definitely a room the dads all gravitated to. The girls loved learning about "servicing" a car from Daddy.

Cute little firefighters :-)

When we arrived home that evening we decided to finish off the day by decorating for Christmas. The girls were so proud of their very own trees in their rooms!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!