Thanksgiving 2011

Holiday catch up!

Ever since my intern year, I have had to work on Thanksgiving so we haven't been able to be home with family for the past 3 years. We are so thankful to get to spend it each with our Colorado family though and this year was no different. We had a huge amount of food again at Sophia and Yonas' house and really enjoyed the day and weekend.

Ben helping with the baking

and helping Dad with the Christmas lights

trying to get a good picture of Ben and Amina which wasn't very successful..

Ben borrowed some of Amina's things but I don't think pink is his color (and he doesnt seem as excited as his dad about turkey legs!)

but he LOVED all of Amina's toys!

PJ snuggling

And we got our Christmas tree over the weekend too. This was a subject of great debate because Andy didn't want to get a real tree b/c we were going to be out of town for so much of Christmas and he didn't want our house up in smoke if something happened. But I really really really prefer a real tree. So this was our compromise and it worked out GREAT!

Andy found these trees in buckets and the big ole bucket actually made it really sturdy so as Ben explored the ornaments, he couldn't tip the whole thing over!

here's the winner

and here's how it got home

with a little help from me