Thanksgiving 2013

On Thanksgiving morning we woke up to all three kids searching the house for Lacey, Tyler, and Colton. When our kids had gone to bed the night before we told them that when they woke up the Bleazard's would be here since they were on their way and scheduled to arrive around midnight. Well, the roads and winter weather turned out to be a problem, so Lacey called to say they would be pulling off at a hotel for the night. We were glad they were playing it safe. But Cody, Kylee, and Livy were already beyond their waiting capacity by the morning. Cody had been counting down the hours for a few days by that point. However, we kept ourselves busy with Thanksgiving preparations and before we knew it they were pulling up to our house...

Livy kept out of trouble by washing dishes for me. It was either have her do dishes and get the floor all wet or have her snitching roll dough and pie. It's hard to keep this little monkey out of trouble, but dishes are one thing that she likes to help with that actually is a help. She loves wearing an apron too.

Kylee helped me make the rolls. This is the second year in a row we've made them for Thanksgiving...a tradition is born! They are so good that I want to eat them all so it is probably best that we only make them once a year.

Steve tried his hand at smoking the turkey this year out on our charcoal grill. It was delicious. 

Cody was excited to eat a drumstick and he ate the whole thing!

The meal was complete with Lacey's green bean casserole and yogurt pie.

Cody was in love with the crispy skin and asked Tyler, "Do you want to taste my skin?"

Steve, Livy, and I picked up our Christmas tree at Costco.

We even squeezed in some time for family pictures. Colton did great again for his photo shoot---just like his baby blessing photo shoot. He was born to be in front of the camera.

Tyler and Lacey had our name for Christmas this year and since we won't see them for Christmas they had us open up our gift early. They gave us the game Puerto Rico based solely on great reviews on Amazon (they had never played it before). It was fun to learn the game together and play it as much as we possibly could before the Bleazard's had to leave. (We also went to Cafe Rio-which is one thing Indiana definitely doesn't have!)

It was so fun to have a few days off to relax and play and especially to have the Bleazard fam stay with us!