Showing posts with label traditions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traditions. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Juergens Thanksgiving 2019

We had the whole Juergens crew together for Thanksgiving this year! It was so wonderful. People started trickling in the Saturday before, and by Wednesday we had everyone there. I was pretty terrible at taking pictures, partly because I was trying to just enjoy everyone, and partly because any documenting I did was on video to make a movie. So this is a pretty small representation of the week, but it’s what we’ve got!

Millie was SO sweet with all the babies. It was really cute to watch actually. She let Morgan climb on and love on her on Sunday and I loved it.


And we finally got to meet baby Claire! She and Hazel will be little besties someday!


The weather was warm all week and the play set in the backyard at Gigi and Poppy’s house got lots of good use by everyone.


These 4 babies were all born within a year of each other! It was so fun to finally have them all together!


Sitting in age order: Myra at 13 months, Morgan at 10 months, Hazel at 6 months, Claire at 2 months.




Sweet Claire was blessed on Monday night.


So fun to see Lauren for a bit then too! This love triangle is so funny. These kids are cousins on one side, and Lauren is an aunt to all of them, on two different sides. 


Tuesday the kids and I went to Goforth Park with Shayna, Myra, Garrett, McKenna, Morgan, and Wes. We walked/ran/biked around the lake and then played at the park for a bit. 



After the park we got to go see Frozen 2! It was SO good. I was blown away. The kids had been asking to play Telestrations and we did that evening. Playing with Max is imaginative and adorable.



Wednesday morning we met in The Woodlands at the mall! First we said hi to the puppies. Harvey said, “I want this one because I love him.” Hard to argue with that!



Riding the clear elevator.


Max was so cute walking around with Myra!


The kids got to ride the carousel several times and we all ate lunch.




And the kids got to see Santa!



Millie and Max had written him letters again, and Millie helped write one for Harvey too. He was so sweet to take the time to read them, and was cute in answering them: “I’m not making any promises, but I’ll do my best if you’re good boys and girls.” 



Grammy made this such a fun day for all of us! We love this tradition with her!




Thanksgiving morning we took family pictures! Nana and Gigi did so much work to make a delicious feast for all of us. We ate and then enjoyed the beautiful weather. Millie and Max were very into the Macy’s parade.



Since we won’t have everyone together for Christmas, Gigi was super prepared and had Christmas jammies for everyone!






Friday we showed everyone one of the fun new parks by us and the kids had fun playing tee ball and running relay races around the little track there. The fun at the park ended abruptly when it start pouring on us! So funny. 


People started trickling out on Friday afternoon, but a few of us did some Black Friday shopping (well, window shopping anyway haha) while the kids played at Gigi and Poppy’s with the dads.


On Saturday those of us who were left went to Memorial City Mall for a bit more shopping and enjoyed a yummy dinner at The Cheesecake Factory. Max tried out Poppy’s new golf net and a kid sized club, which he loved. 


We said goodbye to the rest of the out-of-town crew that evening. It was such a great week with everyone!


Thursday, December 5, 2019

Beginning November

The great candy sorting. It’s fun to watch this get more and more involved as the kids get older.


A lunch play date with Bronson. These two buddies are so cute!


The foot in the mouth gets me every time.


First night of our thankful tree! Thanks to Harvey for helping me color it, or “scribble scrabble” on it, as Max would say.


I thought it’d be fun to play a family game of Yahtzee and it definitely didn’t turn out how I envisioned. Crying baby, bloody nose, tantrum, and fighting over who would keep score. Someday we’ll look back on this and laugh! And someday we’ll be able to make it through one game!


Went to a church’s pumpkin patch after the pumpkins were long gone, they had fun running around anyway.


My method for folding large amounts of laundry. Me sitting in the middle with a drink and a podcast (okay, and some Halloween candy), with piles growing all around me.


You know it was not a great night when he falls asleep at 10am on a walk.



Harvey asks to hold Hazel a lot and it’s super sweet!


Caught the kids singing a Primary song to Hazel as we were getting ready for church. I think it was “I Am a Child of God.” Hazel just smiled at them. 


Tyler was teaching in Primary and Hazel was staring at him so intently, I couldn’t help but take a picture. It was so funny.