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12/01/24 Turkey Day Week

Andy reading to the girls

Ellie posing!



DJ helping in the kitchen

Gonna start on Wednesday since last week went long! haha.

Wednesday the kids started arriving for Thanksgiving. Bryce and Marlee, of course, were already in town, staying over at the Thatcher's house. Dallas and Kayla arrive early afternoon. Holly and Erik went up north so they were coming Thursday, as was Aj. 

Ellie helping prep for Thanksgiving
The kids arrived and everybody ran around to let off some energy. At dinner time we were going to go to Angelica's for dinner...only they closed at 4 p.m. And we went over a little after 6. Oopsy!  Ended up heading over to Don Pedros and getting a party platter. We had to wait a bit but it was yummy and we had plenty of food. 

Thursday, Kayla had a long list of things to do starting early and taking all day.  She made quite the feast. We tried to help a little but mostly she did it all and we tried to corral the kids. (that is not easy!  There are 4 and they are fast! haha)  

We did heat up the pool and got to swim a couple of times this weekend. The bigs (DJ and Ellie) have no fear so they are a little terrifying in the pool. They just want to swim and so they full speed ahead into the deeper end. So you gotta have eyes on them at all times! We heated the pool to 95 degrees so it was like a giant hot tub. It really was delightful!

While the kids were here we made gingerbread houses, took the kids to the park, played pie face, did puzzles, read books, watched movies and had lots of fun!  The house was a bustle of activity from early to late!

Friday evening we did "Friday Pie Day!"  We invited the aunts, uncles, cousins and gpa to bring their leftover pies to share and everyone had lots of pie and visiting. It was REALLY busy then! We turned the furniture around to accommodate Thanksgiving dinner and the Friday Pie Day. It really opened up the space but there was still a lot of people and commotion. 

Bryce and Marlee left on Friday evening because Katie was coming in from Spain and they were going to pick her up at the airport Saturday. (She got delayed so she was planning to come in by midnight Friday but ended up coming in about noon on Saturday.)  They knew about the delay but decided to get up there anyway. 

Dallas and family stayed one more day. They washed all their sheets, vacuumed and mopped the house and gave it a really thorough clean...then they put up the Christmas Tree!!! Yeah!   And helped decorate it. The had lunch and then headed home. The kids loved being here and were sad to go but they loaded up and head out anyway. 

What a fun weekend!






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