Thanksgiving and Beyond...

Every year we start a Thankful Tree.

The first day of November we start adding

leaves with something we are thankful for.

Here is a close up of the leaves...

As you can see... The kids are
most thankful for the people in their lives.

The day before Thanksgiving the

baking begins.

The boys are in charge of making

the Pumpkin pies.

It takes a lot of muscle to make pies...

I guess.

I thought I had a picture of Jacob too,

But it somehow didn't make it on the Blog.

Here they are pouring the pumpkin into the

pie shells.

Before the Pumpkin pies went in Sara baked

her Apple pies. This is what happens when the

pies run over in the oven... The smoke alarms go

off and you have to fan the alarm until it stops screaming.

Here are Sara's Apple pies.

Thanksgiving day, while we were getting the

food prepared, the guys decided to go shoot

each other in the back yard. Boys are weird.

They ran around shooting each other with the air

soft guns. Thankfully they are not very good

aims while running around.

Sara didn't join in the shoot out...

She just looks good holding the gun.

Tommy was staying out of the way...

In the Orange Tree.

Here is Rusty and Megan...

They were safe on the porch.

We had a fantastic Thanksgiving... We have so

much to be thankful for. God has been so good

to us this year. We even had Grandma Bunny with

us for Thanksgiving dinner this year. Usually

she doesn't come with us... We're too noisy for her :-)

This year we talked her into it and we really

enjoyed having her there.

The day after Thanksgiving is the day

to start decorating for Christmas.

Here are my little elf helpers.

Duke likes Christmas too.

As soon as we put the tree up he

curled up under it to go to sleep.

Who needs a ladder?

After decorating the inside we had to hang

the lights outside. You know... No where but

Arizona can you get a sun burn while

hanging Christmas lights. HA!

We love the Christmas season around here.

And tomorrow Paul and Grace will be here,

from frozen Montana. We are so excited!

We are going to have an early Christmas

with them and lots of fun is planned

while they are here.

I hope to have more pictures by the

end of next week.