We were so excited to host Thanksgiving this year for my side of the family but a week before Thanksgiving my dad got a kidney stone and my parents couldn't make the trip! We thought about rescheduling my brother's flight and have everyone together for Christmas, but decided just to go with it and Mike still came. We loved having him!!!
Luke had a MOPS Thanksgiving playdate
Whitney was given 3 different Thanksgiving outfits!
Turkey bootie!
Uncle Mike and Whitney
She hit up some big holidays early in her little life!
Too much turkey!
My girls and Riley across the street put on a Thanksgiving performance for both families in our basement. They rehearsed for days and it was super cute!
Riley's extended family came to the show just minutes after arriving from an 8hr drive from Michigan! We had 14 spectators and 4 actors! Whitney was a pilgrim, a bird, and the Thanksgiving turkey.
Kai helped Leevi inject the turkey with seasoning!
And Hailey baked a cake for dessert
A new tradition we started this year is to decorate gingerbread houses while the turkey cooks on Thanksgiving day!
Thanksgiving cake birthday song??!!!
Lots of games with Uncle Mike
We pulled out the Christmas décor on Friday
We have an artificial tree but each year that a kid is born we do a real tree and save the stump to be a part of our "first tree collection" This year the kids wanted to cut down a tree from the woods behind our house and I was all for it to save $40 some bucks. Apparently this was the best that they could find and while I was perfectly fine using it (it reminded me of German Christmas trees) Leevi couldn't! We still cut the stump for Whitney and then put up the fake tree, ha!
Daddy and Whitney doing their part in decorating
The kids went to town and decorated the whole thing themselves!
Mike was here from Tuesday thru Saturday and we all loved our time with him!!!
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