Thanksgiving 2017

We were so lucky this year to get to spend time with both of our families for Thanksgiving! We started the day with the Juergens crew at Gigi and Poppy's house.

The kids played upstairs a lot, Max was really excited about some new cars from Gigi.

After eating we needed to stretch our legs and it was a beautiful day, so off to the park we went!

We fed the ducks some leftover bread. 

So fun to be with Uncle Rob and Grammy, as well as Nana and Botz who left before we took a picture!

Then we were off to feast #2 with the Andersen crew. Steph and her family came into town and the kids had a blast playing with their cousins. The boys and men immediately busted out games while the women finished cooking.

A delicious spread!

 It was a great Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for every day, and these people are at the top of my list!

Santa visit

We love going to The Woodlands every year to visit Santa at Grammy's mall! She wanted to take us to the children's museum before we saw Santa. The kids had so much fun.

We stopped at Mod Pizza for lunch. At the one near Grammy they have our picture on the wall! It was taken at the opening of the Mod Pizza near us. I guess you could say we're fans of this place. 

Then it was off to see Santa!

Poor Harvey!

This Santa was so sweet and read their letters right there. He talked to them about being good and gave them a big hug. 

Speaking of their letters, I was glad I took a picture of each of them to remember:

And then the back of Millie's, which I thought was so cute. She gets concerned anytime we're not at our house on Christmas Eve! We reassured her that Santa would remember.

After seeing Santa we went around the mall a bit, including the pet shop, the Disney store, and the carousel.

This is one of our favorite traditions! Thanks Grammy for a fun day!

Decking the halls

Sometimes I think it would be easier to do all holiday decorating when the kids are asleep. Actually, I know it would be easier. But also way less fun and magical! Millie and Max begged to put up our tree for a while and we gave in just before Thanksgiving. They were so excited to help.

Poor Harvey had no part in decorating, and has no access to the tree at all. We have it blocked off with the couches and ottoman so he can't even get to it! But he had fun banging the pots and pans around like usual.

We also found the Target toy catalog and the kids had so much fun looking through that. Millie helped Max write a letter to Santa and wrote one herself, both including a picture cut out of the magazine!

Little things

These are in random order! Millie often takes the elastics out of her hair at school. Not sure why I bother doing it sometimes. 

She brought home this paper from school recently. I'm guessing she had watched a Barbie movie or something before writing that! 

I did a 5K with some friends recently, The Great Inflatable Race. There were inflatables every so often - it was really fun! The inflatables broke it up quite a bit and made the actual running feel so short. However, I was SO tired later that day. All that bouncing around took more out of me than I realized! It was a fun morning with fun people.

Millie, enjoying another sunset.

1 year well check for Harvey. 

The boy is over 90% in everything! 

We were waiting for tithing settlement and choir practice after church so the kids were getting bored. They somehow found it entertaining to hold the doors open for a good 10 minutes.

Playing near the bus stop instead of going inside after school. 

Got this from Tyler's phone. Just us at Wal-Mart on a Saturday afternoon. I was obviously looking glamorous and the kids were enjoying free cake, I think for Veteran's Day. Between that and ginger snap samples Max kept saying, "This is the best day ever!" He's easy to please.

A sad attempt at flying our kite. Turns out it's possible to have too much wind to fly a kite.

Millie still loves to color and draw and lately likes to look up step-by-step instructions on the iPad.

A rare morning where we actually have time to play for a few minutes before heading to the bus stop. I didn't notice where Millie was until after I took the pic and thought it was pretty funny.

Oh these boys! Max sometimes goes in there when Harvey wakes up and they play together. So cute.