Thanksgiving weekend 2010

There is much to be thankful for this time of year. A warm house, good food, family, friends, and Christmas trees. We celebrated Thanksgiving at my Aunt DeeDee's house this year. It was good to see family and the food was exceptionally good. It has been our families tradition to head out to our local grocer's parking lot to pick out a Christmas tree, kinda ghetto, I know. I like to think of it as supporting our local tree farmers. This year we drove a few extra miles for our tree. On Saturday we traveled to Eau Claire for a day trip to catch up with John and Jill Eiselt and their boys Logan and Bennett who we hadn't seen in some time. And we picked out our Christmas tree at Lowes Creek tree farm. I was anticipating that we were going to cut down our tree like Clark W. Grizwold did so many years ago. But it was not to be this year. Maybe it is better that way. Anyways, the kids had a lot of fun playing together and, in typical DJ Johnnie E form, Big Papa John turned up the MetroStation for kids. It was hilarious to see four kids dancing their !@# off to some techno.

My mom was showing Grandpa J how the twenty-first century works

Caedon being Caedon

Look how refreshed, and well rested my mom looks...the kids spent the next 2 nights with my parents. They did great and so did my parents. Although I haven't heard back from my mom since Saturday when we picked up the kids, hmm? Could she still be sleeping?

Mouthful of Nummies

Caedon was introduced to bow and "arrows", dart guns, and oozies this weekend. Next weekend we'll fit him with a blaze orange snowsuit.

We made a turkey with all the things we are thankful for. It was so sweet to hear what Caedon and Norah were thankful for. The little pinecone turkey was made by Caedon as a school art project.

We saw several well-trimmed Christmas tree suitors, including the new Korean fir. But this one took the cake. The classic Balsam.

Our future "GLEEks"

The Eiselt family

The Exsted family

A bunch of ragamuffins

Bennett

Lil Benny

Preprandial playtime

Logan calling his peeps

Logan and Caedon played really well together

Slinky nose

Pasta connoisseur, al dente

Bennett wanting some more of dat

Dew wa ditty ditty dum ditty dew...