Our first Thanksgiving at our house!

I'm going to count this as our Frolicky Friday, since this post is about our entire day. :)

We had our very first Thanksgiving at our own house this year, the day after Thanksgiving. We started off cooking and cleaning, of course!

Jayla helped with the pumpkin pie filling. Jonathan had already helped make the crusts.

Jacob made the "Peach Stuff" all by himself!

Jonathan made the cranberry fruit salad. Yummy!

My mom was feeding Jack a little early. Little guys just can't wait for all of it to be ready! I thought this picture Jonathan took was funny. Maybe it's the angle or their expressions?

We only have a small table at the moment and no chairs! We have freecycled so many things lately, so we're sort of in-between table & chairs right now. So, the kids ate on a sheet on the floor. They thought it was fun to have an indoor picnic!

Jack has an, um, interesting look on his face!



Grandma brought us a hot air popcorn popper. The kids loved watching it! We weren't sure what happened to the lid, so we improvised. :)


At the same time, Grandma was having Jayla "help" with the peanut brittle.

There was too much going on, I guess. Grandma has made this probably a thousand times, but.....

something went wrong. She was completely dumbfounded! What could it possibly be? Hmmm.......

Corn syrup! She forgot to add it in! But here is proof that it was sitting right there on the counter! You can even see it in the picture above! It's alright, Mom. It still tastes good! LOL!
Seriously though, she makes the most amazing peanut brittle every year. I requested that she make this because it is SO GOOD! I've never seen this happen before! LOL! At least the holiday season is just beginning so there is plenty of time to make up for it. :) :) :)

Jacob helped serve the pie. Jonathan and Jayla wanted her to try both of their pumpkin pies, so she got a small sliver of each. Jacob couldn't wait for his, so he just drug his finger through for a sampling.

I have come to realize that dirty faces to little boys is an art! They are very proud, especially this one.

The rest of the day was just relaxing and playing. We were going to go watch a river parade, but since Jack was sick, we thought it best not to get him out in the cool air.

I like this picture of Jacob and Daddy looking at a magazine together. Right after I took this, Myles flipped him over his shoulder and they started tickling and giggling. There is so much of that around here!

This is the boys' room. It works best like this for now (we only have 2 bedrooms), but their "bedroom" is in the middle of the house, so we have to step over toys all the time. At least it helps to keep it clean (out of necessity). In this case though, we had to weave through the yarn "laser beams" as the kids were playing spy games.

Myles really got into spying with them. He even insisted on changing his code name when I overheard his first one. They were all running around the house, using code names, coming up with secret spy plans. They were even using our cell phones for communicating!

Next we started making popcorn strings to hang on the tree. We still have not finished these (as of Monday), but we will get them added to the tree this week.

We had also discussed the persectued Chritians in other countries, specifically India, and about how thankful we are to have the freedom in this country to worship God anytime we want. (See previous post for details.) Finally by midnight everyone was asleep. Jayla had said she had the best Thanksgiving ever. :) She wanted to sleep on the couch, so she brought what appeared to be her entire room in with her!


They're always so cute when they're asleep!


Oh, look who is still awake! This little guy has his hours backwards. At least he is feeling better. :) I think he went to sleep just a few minutes after I snapped this picture.

It was a great day of food, family and fun, with new and old traditions. What more can you ask for? We had a great day!