Thanksgiving 2016

This was a big year - the first time that Tyler's side of the family was (almost) all able to gather since Mom and Dad's mission! 

I love Camden's school papers that he brought home. How does he feel about our upcoming road trip to see cousins?



How about this?  How could the person that made this worksheet have possibly known that the President of the Sneaky Hot Dog Club would be filling it out??? It was too perfect.



 The "it won't take up your time" part hurt my heart. I have got to figure out a way to get out of the kitchen more often!!

We started off our trip in what is becoming a tradition anytime we are traveling south, now:  cashing in on report card A's for 2 dozen Krispy Kreme donuts. 

 We also took the back seat out of our van in order to take the family rototiller down to Aric. That meant that we had 8 seats for 8 people, and guess what?  We all still got along!

There are so many fun cousins on this side of the family. I wish that my kids got to see them more often.

The girls assured me that they were bonding via Pinterest.

 

a pile of cousins

Crazy boys

shooting

and zero pictures of Emmie and Camden who were busy having tons of fun with cousins in the backyard the entire time. Aric and April were fantastic hosts.

This is a great group of people!