Thanksgiving Day 2008

a very large table for a very large group and wonderful meal!

Daddy and Ethan

Avery sitting at the "girls and Grandpa and Grandma table"

the boys table

the boys had a sleepover Thanksgiving night

a worn out crew of boys

the girls had their own slumber party

they could only stay awake so long

unpacking Sunday afternoon-the girl just wears me out!

We went to Hutchinson for Thanksgiving Day and weekend. There were i believe 37 people at lunch on Thursday! Raegan was exausted by lunch time so we layed her down and she conked and slept through the whole afternoon and ate her Thanksgiving lunch mid-afternoon...made for a more relaxing lunch time :)

The cousins all had a blast as usual, the trampoline and playhouse being the main hangout spots of the weekend. Grandpa and Grandma got Christmas decorations and they all decorated the playhouse together which i failed to get a picture of.

Raegan didn't sleep well the whole time we were there, i assumed she had an ear infection...starting to trust my intuition on this since they are a common thing around here. I didn't want to take her to a different dr though cause she just got off 20 days of antibiotics for the previous ear infection and so we stuck it out and thankfully used some numbing drops my sister had the last night we were there and she slept great. (sure enough when i took her in she did have an ear infection and they gave her a shot and we will be discussing tubes at her 15 mo check...don't know that i want to do that but i'm getting tired of going from antibiotic to antibiotic!

The parents did a lot of trading off...guys going to a movie...girls going to walmart or target...guys going to the pawn shop...girls going shopping again...we did not go to the stores early though...the last time i did that in Hutch the stinkin newspaper people decided to chase down my sister and i and interview us for the paper...yeah and we tried to dart away from them but he was a determined guy who seemed to not give a flying flip that we didn't appear to want to be interviewed and definitely did NOT want our picture taken...aww the memories :)

It was a great weekend and i'm quite sure my mom and dad are ready for me to send my little monkey down for a couple week visit to grandpa and grandma :) She was INTO EVERYTHING the entire weekend...climbing on table, chairs you name it. Sooo this last picture is for everyone who had to place my child down off of a high place, rescue an item of yours that she thought was a great toy, take trash from her and put back in the trash can, and probably much more that i missed :)