Thanksgiving and Friendsgiving

We had a nice Thanksgiving this year.  Timmy's class spent a lot of time learning about Thanksgiving, so I think he understood it a little more this year.  Out of everything that Timmy learned about Pilgrims and Indians, what stuck out for him the most was that the Indians taught the Pilgrims to fertilize their corn with three dead fish.  Timmy's school had a Thanksgiving Luncheon the Thursday before, so Tyler and I joined him at school.  Next year we will split one lunch; between it starting at 10:30(!), only having a half an hour to get them to eat, and my picky eaters, we will definitely be able to share!  Timmy did try a bite of everything though and he seemed to like having company for lunch.

 

Vice Principal, Mr. Moose, and Principal, Mrs. Devers

 On Thanksgiving we got to visit with all of Tim's family.  Unfortunately, Susan wasn't feeling well, so we only went to visit at their house for a little while.  When we got back to our house we helped Elena with the finishing touches for dinner, and the rest of the family got there just in time to eat.  Everything was delicious as usual, and the kids were especially excited to have their cousins over and Uncle Chris home.  After dinner Bryce showed off his newest skill!

 

While the big boys ran around like maniacs and got into everything!

Later on, Uncle Joe and Lindsey arrived.  They played a super hero board game with the boys for a while, and then settled in to the new Mario for the rest of the night with Uncle Chris too.  Timmy was in heaven!

Uncle Billy showed up long enough to give Timmy and Tyler about 10 marshmallows at once!

It was a much more relaxing Thanksgiving then we have been used to!

The next day the boys and I got to hang out at home all day and Tim got home early.  That evening we had college friends over, some of whom we hadn't seen in entirely too long!  I was very excited for the chance to have my boys play with Natalie's kids, I'm looking forward to them being friends too!

 

Once they headed home, we went out with Sami, Ryan, Billy, Ryan Schmid and his girlfriend Marilee.  It was really nice to spend the evening with everyone.  Hopefully we will be able to do it again soon!