Thankful Turkeys

Before we get any further into December and Christmas celebrations, I want to record our Thanksgiving happenings.  If I were to give one word that summed up our Thanksgiving experience, it would have to be TURKEYS!  My own two little turkeys made more turkeys and learned more about turkeys than I thought possible.  With all of Brian's preschool projects combined with Timmy's gym class projects and their make up home projects we are definitely all turkey crafted out.  It was really fun though and both boys loved all the turkeys.  The few in the picture below are seriously only a few from the piles of turkey crafts.

We did make a simple Thankful Turkey this year and put a feather on every day that listed something we were grateful for.  I am glad we did this because it gave the boys a visual and I think by the end even Timmy understood what being thankful means.  He was coming up with some good ones without any prompting from me.  Here's a few things we are thankful for this year:
Brian - bed, popcorn, Heavenly Father, friends, everything, the whole earth, our furniture, our city and country, our bedrooms, tables, chairs and couches
Timmy - trains, my bed, mommy's car, our house, my mama and baby giraffe, fishy crackers, my owl, oatmeal, tennis, excavator tractors.
Mom - our neighborhood, my parents, my bed, our warm house, Mark's job, my phone, clothes, the gym, my two little boys.
Dad - computers, cars, yummy food, my bed, socks.

We were lucky this year to have TWO Thanksgiving dinners.  We went to the Ranch for Thanksgiving lunch and to the Hsiao house for Thanksgiving dinner.  I got pictures at the Ranch and only one from the Hsiao house.  I must have been tired by the end of the day.  My mom completely outdid herself with the Thanksgiving presentation and the food this year.  It was amazing!

 Brian is seriously beyond happy when he's with his cousins.

Not only did my mom have the whole place decorated and a huge feast of delicious food, but she also had little fun things for the kids to do, like making apple candy turkeys.  My boys were in Heaven.  Timmy ate his (including the apple) too fast for me to get a picture.

We did make it down to the Hsiao house for even more delicious food.  They even ordered duck for the special occasion, which made Mark's Thanksgiving for sure.  Then we had a sleep over there which the boys loved.  The next morning Mark spent hours cutting lots and lots of trees with his dad.  They did so much work!  It was a little nerve wracking watching Mark way up in the tree with his huge chainsaw.  He displayed some more hidden talents of his.  He is really really good with a chainsaw and incredibly spry when it comes to climbing trees.

It was a wonderful, lovely, thankful Thanksgiving full of food, family, fun and turkeys!