Family, Food, and Festivities.

In the midst of all the Christmas preparations going on I wanted to share about our Thanksgiving. We were so happy and excited to have both of Ty's older sisters come for Thanksgiving week. Lue flew in Tuesday night from New York and Meghan drove down from Utah on Wednesday  night. It was a lot of fun to have guests this year! We all helped prepare lots of yummy food and enjoyed a great meal together. We shared what we are grateful for and past Thanksgiving memories. I am so grateful for the many blessings I have in my life, this Thanksgiving I was especially grateful for the people in our lives and how loved they make us feel. We really do have amazing friends and family!

My sister in law Lue and I decided along with two of my girlfriends to try Black Friday shopping! I've never done the die hard kind where you wake up or in this case show up at midnight or earlier. The lines of 500 people at Toys R Us, the police at Target grabbing line jumpers, the people that had been in line for 8 hrs. or in Best Buy's case 2 days, to say it was absolutely insane would be an understatement! It was very entertaining and now I can check it off my bucket list because I don't think I'll go ever again!

I am so grateful for these 2 little boys and to be their Mommy! They keep me laughing at all the new things they say and do. People always stop me when I'm out by myself with both boys and say "You have your hands full!" As true as that statement is I wouldn't have it any other way!

 Troy and Weston telling me about the turkey. Troy got the wrong idea about eating turkey and put this turkey's head in his mouth.

 Troy eating one of his favorites sweet potatoes.

Weston has started saying "Mmmm!" during meals, he said it a lot as he ate his Thanksgiving dinner.

 I made these turkeys with M&M's for each person. Thank you to Pinterest for the idea! They turned out cute and were easy to make!

 This is our timer picture of everyone. Lue and Meg wanted to be twins too-lol!

 Aunt Lue gets tackled by Weston!

Aunt Meg reading Troy and Weston bedtime stories. Troy is the designated sippy cup holder:)

  

This is the cactus gardens at Ethel M's Chocolate Factory located in Henderson. This is becoming our little  family tradition this is our 3rd Christmas season going, they add more lights and features each year it's fun to see and walk around and best of all it's FREE!

 Lue and Meghan with the boys who were obviously intersted in something else at the moment!

They always let you walk through the chocolate factory, and this year they even had workers making the candy so you could watch through the windows. At the end of the tour you get a piece of chocolate of your choice:white, milk or dark.

 Troy is definately my child he really loved his chocolate sample.

The boys loved all the attention they got from their aunts!

Weston looks huge to me in this picture! Where are my babies and who are these big boys?! The weather was perfect for playing outside in our sand and water table.

The boys just love hanging from the monkey bars and we sit ready to catch them when they can't hold on anymore.