Thanksgiving

this year we stuck around for thanksgiving, and lucky for us all our family in houston was staying here as well.  and kasee and seth were coming into town!  so we headed down to houston

lucky for me brittany is good at taking pictures, because i am not.

i was in charge of rolls, so i got out my great aunt audrey's roll recipe.  and my first attempt wasn't so great (darn yeast and i do not get along).  but, the second time they turned out pretty good.  even if they were totally malformed.

 mae had a rough night while we were there, she was up a lot, and she wet the bed (seriously?! this girl never wets the bed).  i figured out the next day that she had an ear infection.  lucky for us, noah had an ear infection too...so we borrowed some ear drops!
despite not feeling well, she had a great day.  that morning the guys went to play basketball and took the kiddos with them.  a win for mama and for mae!  she had a blast with all of her cousins. and i got to go for a nice long run (i still had izzy, but pushing izzy feels like pushing nothing compared to pushing her and a 40 pound 3 year old).

later we headed over to the park.  where brittany got some great pictures.

these girls had a blast

i know this picture is blurry, but i just love the look of joy on her face.

again, i wish i had taken more pictures!  like of matt trying to figure out the turkey! (which by the by, he did an awesome job on!!) or uncle seth on the trampoline chasing around all of the kids.  or lucy, mae and tessa all running around together.  i'm hoping that just me writing down those things will spark memories someday.  because we absolutely love getting together with cody's family.  and i love how much fun the kids have together.  

some of the merriment

these two.  they were amazing with all of the kids.  so much fun.  they are going to be awesome parents one day!

i love thanksgiving.  not only for all the delicious food.  but it's such a wonderful start to the christmas season.  to remember all that we are grateful for, and go into the christmas season with a grateful heart.
i'm so grateful for family.  i'm grateful that cody's family doesn't feel like his family, but my family too.  and i'm so glad that i have such wonderful relationships with all of them.