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Gobble Gobble, Ho Ho Ho!!

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As usual, I’m a bit late in posting these pictures.  We had a wonderful time visiting family in Beverly for Thanksgiving.  So much fun in fact, that I frequently forgot to pick up the camera. Ooops. We stayed with my cousin Christine, who hosted a small Thanksgiving at her apartment. Afterwards Tom, her boyfriend, kicked everybody out of the kitchen so that he could clean it all up.  Vada popped in and asked if she could help, and amazingly he said yes.  I had to sneak in to take a picture of Vada carefully loading the dishwasher after Tom rinsed off the plates.

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Later Tom came into the living room to let us know there was another photo op.  Vada was busily scrubbing out all of the pots. She is quite the little helper!

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We have a very large family, my grandparents have 11 children. Over half of those children live in the Beverly area with their families, so you can imagine that’s quite a few people. There tends to be lots of little-ish Thanksgivings happening in various houses, and then we all get together at one home for dessert. This year the dessert was at Christine’s. Once again, I failed to pick up my camera most of the evening.  However I did managed to remember my camera in time to take a picture of Doug and my Grampy bonding.

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Christine’s children were with their father on Wednesday and Thursday, so the girls used that time to make a mess of their room!  They really enjoyed all of the wonderful toys that McKenna and Ashton had to play with.

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As much fun as all those toys were to play with by themselves, Kyla and Vada were very happy when McKenna and Ashton finally arrived to play with them. There was of course lots of coloring…

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There was also lots of playing with random toys and even hiding in closets.

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McKenna tried to escape to the living room, but Vada was having none of that!

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Cousin Ashton, as usual, was just plain silly!  In all honesty, he is quite the amazing little eight year old boy. He played very well with all the little girls.

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The two favorite activities of all four children that weekend were hanging about on the top bunk and playing with Play-Doh! I’m thinking I’m going to have to buy more Play-Doh for my children, and maybe some of those nifty little toys that go along with it.

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Well, that’s all the Thanksgiving photos I have.

On another note, Vada has been trying so hard to learn how to twirl pasta and other noodles on her fork.

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She’s actually getting pretty good at it, though she does tend to put a little bit too much on her fork.

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When we spend Thanksgiving in town, we put up all of our Christmas decorations over Thanksgiving weekend. Obviously that didn’t happen this year. This Sunday morning seemed the perfect opportunity. Saturday evening Doug and I went through the boxes, put aside all of the ornaments and decorations and got the fake tree put together. I know, fake tree, blech , but in this tiny apartment it’s really a good option. Once we have a home (soon I hope) we will have real trees again.

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The girls were very happy when they got up Sunday morning and saw everything ready to decorate.

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Even sitting on the little tote, the tree was short enough that they could almost reached the very top.  They put up almost all of the decorations themselves, and had a very good time doing it.

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As the girls decorated away, I happily enjoyed my cup of coffee in my forgotten about Christmas mug. It’s always so fun every year to go through the Christmas box and find these little gems that have been packed away for eleven months.

In case you can’t read it, it says “Mom’s Kitchen,  A Little Piece of Heaven”. My lovely friend Stacy gave it to me for Christmas a few years ago.

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Once all the decorations were on the tree, it was time for the angel on top. Vada was very happy about the angel, and had informed Daddy that he would have to pick her up. So, when the time came up, she went.

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Of course, as soon as everything was done, the girls had to start pushing the buttons on all of the musical ornaments. How long do those batteries last anyway?

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And, my friends, I leave you with this one last picture. Though there are quite a few doors in our little apartment, it was deemed necessary to put all of the door hangers on just one doorknob.

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Happy holiday season to all of you! May peace and love abound.

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