Thursday, December 22, 2011

The Infamous Turkey Hat...and a Harrisburg Holiday Parade

For Mommy School we all made
TURKEY HATS!  
Gobble gobble!
















One Saturday in November
(can't remember when now...sad)
I bundled up the kids and headed
to downtown Harrisburg for their
annual Holiday Parade! 
The boys love love loved it!
Not quite at the same caliber as
Macy's but a good one to break
us in for the REAL THING
next year!
Abe Lincoln joined the festivities
reading the Gettysburg address...
PS side note...Gettysburg is only
45 minutes away from my house!
How awesome is that!
Some of our favorite floats


And some really cool people...
like the Union soldiers...
Santa's elves bearing presents AND
the NORTH POLE...
Elvis himself serenaded us with
some Blue Christmas...
SUPER TALL clowns
I bet you can't guess who loved this guy?...
The tractor train...
this one was my favorite
Overall...it was a super fun time
and the boys liked getting
these awesome frisbees!

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Thanksgiving 2011

This was our very first
Thanksgiving away from Reno/SLC
and my first time
ever cooking any of the meal,
let alone the entire meal!
But I enjoyed it and I had a
great helper!
On the menu was Turkey (bleh)
stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes,
gravy, beans, rolls, pink fluff and cranberries!
A lot of food for not a lot of people  (LOL)

The turkey...supposedly it tasted pretty dang good

The dinner spread
We had very special guests for the
Thanksgiving weekend!  Since
we live relatively close
Uncle Kent and Christin
flew up for the weekend!  The boys
were in HEAVEN and I loved
having company and a
SHOPPING buddy!




 Black Friday was pretty uneventful
for us...the ads didn't have much to offer
but Christin and I did a little shopping
then we dragged the boys to
the Hershey Pantry
(which boasts of making the best
breakfast in Pennsylvania)
for some delish breakfast.
Then we headed back out and the boys
headed over to Indian Echo Caverns
and went to the petting zoo.
O....P.S.  Chris had the day after off!

After the petting zoo
we all met up again for lunch
of leftovers (yum!)
and the boys played a little 2 on 2
in the driveway...
well it was more like 2 on 1 against Kent!

Saturday we took Kent and Christin
to our very favorite Chocolate World to hit
up the little ride
and get some free chocolate!
The boys were so excited to take
them to their favorite place!
You know you love that Logan has his finger half up his nose



Saturday night once Chris got off work
We had some yummy Red Robin
then headed over to Hershey's Sweet Lights.
The sweet lights are lights you drive through
while listening to Christmas music.
Don't worry that every boy
fell asleep and Christin and I enjoyed them.

Kent and Christin had to go home
Sunday after church.  They flew in 
through Baltimore so it is about a 2 hour
trip to get to the airport.  
Logan man and Kenton had a little snooze!
We had a great
Thanksgiving weekend with
Kent and Christin!  
Thanks for coming!

Saturday, December 17, 2011

I Know You've Missed Us...

It has been a busy 6 weeks...that is all I have to say.  We have done a TON of fun things leading up to Thanksgiving...through the weekend and now into the Christmas season.  I promise to get our blog up to date with this coming up week.

Tonight, we packed up the family and headed to Maryland to get some Cafe Rio and more importantly to visit the temple in all of it's Christmas glory.  With so much left to do before next week, we almost didn't go...but it was on my list of things to do and so we jumped in the car and drove the 2 hours to get there...and it was well worth our time.  Had we known it was such a big event we may have planned better.  There we tons and tons of people there.  They boast having more than 500,000 lights on the temple grounds, plus a large nativity and they do a program every night.  We were too late to hit the 7pm or even 8pm shows...and we couldn't wait around for a 9pm show...so that will be on our list for next year.  I love Christmas time...and I love it even more as we have found fun things to do every day leading up to Christmas as a family...some have been just for fun, but I also tried to do a lot that were Christ centered.  This was my favorite so far and will be a family tradition for the next 4 Christmases while we are out here!



















MERRY CHRISTMAS!!