Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving, we hung out at the house and had a nice dinner. 

The girls love the legs.

The spread

We started a new tradition for our family this year: a thankful tree. Each day we wrote something we were thankful for, on a leaf. Here is everyone's list (minus Vivian). This is listed more for us, so feel free to scroll ahead. =) Also... these are in no particular order, just the order I took them down off the wall.

Mike:
1. Cars
2. Electricity
3. Fall Leaves
4. Food
5. Choices
6. Vacuums
7. Cheesecake
8. Mommy
9. Eedie
10. Annabelle
11. Vivian
12. Air Conditioning
13. Family trips
14. Warm clothes
15. Time off
16. Candy corns
17. Nature
18. Our bodies
19. Vaccines
20. Fish
21. Sleep
22. Turkey
23. Holidays
24. Air Force
25. No injuries from exploding dish (mom accidentally left a Pyrex dish on the stove and heated up the wrong burner. The dish exploded all over.) 
26. Thanksgiving
27. My girls
28. Warmth
29. Opportunities

Brooke:
1. Internet
2. Desserts
3. Chocolate
4. Dishwashers
5. Our Family
6. Funny people
7. Clothes
8. Fun Trips
9. Parents (NeNe and Pappy)
10. Family times
11. Camera
12. Clean water
13. Technology
14. Being healthy
15. Heat
16. Christmas music
17. Washing machine
18. Cars
19. Friends
20. Pictures
21. 5 Senses
22. Toilets
23. Gospel
24. Bike rides
25. Freedoms
26. Christmas movies
27. musical skills
28. Our home

Annabelle:
1. Giraffe
2. Girl horses
3. Babies
4. Hello Kitty
5. Heart
6. Vivian
7. Mama
8. Dad
9. Babies
10. Soda
11. Beautiful cats
12. Jesus
13. Cereal
14. Butterflies
15. Tacos
16. Crown
17. Books
18. Lipsticks
19. Wands
20. Ballerinas
21. Necklaces
22. Trains/ Dress-ups
23. Ponies
24. Cats
25. Eedie
25. Costumes
27. Daddy
28. Bows
29. Ponies

Eedie:
1. Phone
2. Breakfast
3. Paper
4. Napkins
5. Christmas
6. Mom
7. Blocks
8. Leaves
9. Walkie talkies
10. Mermaids
11. Clocks
12. Chairs
13. Vivian
14. Our home
15. Trees
16. Dogs
17. Paint
18. Stickers
19. Birthday cake
20. Hot chocolate
21. Crayons
22. Monsters
23. Stamps
24. Christmas
25. Paper
26. Walls
27. Monsters
28. Kix, Oatmeal, Lunch, ones (?)

We are pretty sure Eedie just started listing things she could see in the room.

Carving the roast beast

We put our tree up the next day. We use our Japanese New Year's decoration, that we got from our old neighbors, for the tree topper.

Annabelle couldn't quite reach.