Thanksgiving Weekend Part 1

Thanksgiving weekend was BUSY at our house. Lots of stress. Lots of love. Lots of family time. Lots of parties, but most of all, Lots of family! Part 1 is for Kairi's birthday. She turned 7, and we had a small birthday for her here.

The Birthday Girl

Best Friends - Shaynie and Kairi

Cute little Asher

Logan & Heather

Lighting the candles

Opening her Lalaloopsie doll

She got a book. Daiken was way more excited about it than Kairi

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Thanksgiving Weekend Part 2

All of our kids and grandkids got to come to our house for Thanksgiving. Boy was it a full house, but we had  a great time!

All the kids love Grandma and her iPad

Max really isn't as fat as this picture makes him look.

Way too many cooks in the kitchen!

Ashlie making cool whip

Marcus cutting the turkey

The kids playing in the leaves while waiting for Thanksgiving dinner.

All our grandkids

Max, Kaleb and Asher

Half of the adult table from a 7 year old's point of view

The other half

The older grandkids got to make turkeys out of apples with Aunt Ashlie.  This is Kairi

McKadie

Shaynie

Sadie

Daiken

They didn't get to make turkeys, so Max and Kaleb shared treats instead.

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Thanksgiving Weekend Part 3

On Friday we had a family Christmas party. Laren took advantage of all the kid's being home, and we got the lights up pretty quick. Later that night we played Christmas pictionary, decorated gingerbread houses, made paper snowmen, and ate pizza.

Putting up the Christmas lights

They really need a rotate button on blogger!!

Bubba checking the lights to see if they work

Kairi & Liz

The only way to keep the little ones entertained

Making snowmen with Aunt Nae to hang on Grandma's wall

Raiden

Kaleb and Ashlie and Bubba playing the iPad

Asher man likes to eat

The 3 musketeers

Playing Christmas pictionary. Kids got their turns, then the adults did. The adults had to close their eyes and only had 1 minute.

Daiken

Halle taking her turn

Ren, Shaynie, Halle, and McKadie

Decorating "Gingerbread" houses made out of graham crackers

Pace's family

McKenzie's family

Logan's family

Ren's family

Mom & Dad

Ashlie's family minus Ryan. He was hunting elk.

The kids playing with the lights after all their hard work.

Easter at Our House

For Easter all the kids came to Mom and Dad's house and hung out. We of course: dyed eggs, had Easter egg hunts, and took naps. We also played some games and visited. Here are some pictures.

Sadie and Shaynie playing

Sorry. I don't know how to turn pictures. Here's McKadie dying eggs

Branae and Chelsie in charge of dying eggs and the hunt

The boys playing Settlers of Catan. Marcus, Ren, Halle, Logan and Ryan

Momma, Daiken and Ashlie playing with the Ipad

Heather and Asher



Kaleb and Max visiting. Bompa, Heather, Asher and Raiden in the background



Branae and Halle