This year we enjoyed a nice, quiet Thanksgiving at home just the 4 of us (and Bruizer). We watched the parade on TV, played & watched a little football. Josh made an awesome meal! Have I ever mentioned how lucky I am to have a husband who likes to cook? Joey is all about the holidays this year and had alot of questions for daddy while he was making the turkey... Did he have to pluck the feathers? Did he shoot the turkey? Where's the turkey's head? He enjoyed helping out in the kitchen and loved all the food. Sam wasn't impressed with the meal at all but did enjoy the pumpkin pie. Who could blame him? We let him get by with it since it was his first Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. There's no gifts to buy, traveling or stressing about getting everything done. It's just a day spent with family (and a lot of good food). We have so much to be thankful for this year but more than anything I am so happy our little boy is home... spending Thanksgiving with his family instead of at an orphanage. I'm thankful that he knows the love of a mom, dad, brother, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins & friends. I'm thankful that when he cries someone is always going to be there to pick him up and show him the love he deserves. He's always going to have a roof over his head, a warm bed to sleep in and food to fill his tummy. He's such an amazing little boy who has brought so much joy to our lives. I am looking forward to the Christmas season and being able to celebrate all of his firsts as a family.
I picked up this tent for the boys a few weeks ago and Josh put it together on Thanksgiving morning. They had a lot of fun playing in their "fort".
On Saturday we took the boys sledding and met up with Jess and the kids. It was Sam's first time and he LOVED it! We weren't sure what he would think of the snow and cold but so far he seems to like it... we'll see what he thinks of it in a month of two.
Joey had a blast too. He told me the other day that he just loves the snow so much he never wants it to go away. He loves wearing his snow boots, sledding and making snow angels and he can't wait for the "sticky snow" so we can make a snowman and have a snowball fight.
That evening we put up our Christmas tree and decorations. I picked up this nativity collection at a market in Bogota and I just love it!! It's definitely my favorite decoration.
Joey was SO excited about putting up the tree and had a lot of fun helping me decorate it. However, we decided to only decorate the top 2/3rds of the tree due to the fact that Sam is very interested in all the pretty (very breakable) ornaments.
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