Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving Day we went to the parade in downtown Charlotte. It was great weather (in past years, it's been freezing or rainy). We thought Drew's reaction to the marching bands was pretty funny... (sigh of relief!)

CHEESE!!


Emma wanted to get down and run around, so it was a little hard to just sit and watch. She's at that tough age where she doesn't want to be in a stroller, but she is a really fast runner and just takes off if we set her down.

Then we came back home and I got our turkey in the oven. I even got to run to Old Navy and score some great deals while our dinner was cooking. Then I hit up several stores at midnight and didn't get home until around 2am or so! On Friday, we went and picked out our Christmas tree - the first time we've had a real one!! We decorated it while Emma was napping (just too risky to have TWO helpers! We only lost one ornament with one helper - not sure we'd have any with two!) Do you like how Drew did a candy cane display right in the center of the tree? =)

And the finished product!

Then on Saturday we celebrated Thanksgiving with Chad's family. Poor baby Owen wasn't feeling the best and was giving Grant and Sherry quite a scare, so it was just us and Chad's parents and Nana. After eating, we headed outside to play. Here's the kids with Granddad and Grandmom and Nana.

And here's our family of four! (it's black and white from something else, and I just forgot to switch it back...)

This picture is so sweet or Emma and Nana.

Emma LOVED the four wheeler and cried when it was Drew's turn!


We ran out of time to make Drew's muffins on Friday, so we brought the ingredients and made them there.

The week after Thanksgiving, IU played NC State - which rarely happens!! Here are the kids wearing their NC State gear as we are heading out to go to the Y.

This was Olivia's dress, and it looked really cute on Emma!