Thanksgiving Blessings - Part 1

So this year we decided to take another great Thanksgiving adventure.  We like taking the week to visit and spend time with both families.  It saves us from having to "choose" a family to see on the holidays, especially since we prefer to spend Christmas at our house.  So the first leg of our trip led us to Aunt I's house.  It was so much fun having the cousins together again (the first time in a long time) to play.  We took a few pictures so we could remember our sweet Ida until the next visit (and a great Christmas gift for Oma & Opa with all their favorite little people).

 

Of course Aunt I and Miss Ida weren't the only ones there to greet us and play with us.  Meet George and Lily... while at first we weren't so sure about the pups (KK has a fear of dogs ever since one pinned her down when she was only 2 and I personally am not a dog person), by the end of the stay you could say that they grew on us... Here is AJ having some fun with his "Georgie". 

 

The pups liked him the best, probably because he was their size. Every now and then you would see Lily run by to lick his neck or eats and AJ would yell "Nooo Lily Nooo" and then laugh. I will admit... I even allowed George to sit with me the last day... that was huge :-)

We spent our time mostly playing "family game night" which was Wii games (in which Miss Ida schooled us every time), board games like Sorry and of course coloring and dress up.  We were so busy playing, we didn't take a lot of pictures, but here is what we do have:

The girls did enjoy making me look "purdy" together... we had fun playing beauty shop!

KK is all about her cousin Ida.  She followed her around and wanted to play with her every passing moment.  Quite a change for an only child, but Ida was very sweet to her.   KK's favorite time with Ida was playing with her in Ida's room alone - she liked being a big girl with her.  I'm so glad the girls were able to spend time together like this.

Miss Ida still has a special love for her uncle Greg, as soon as the kids were in bed, Ida and Greg would be together playing Wii or getting another "adult" game of Sorry ready.  I found a pic of the two of them when Ida was a baby... she has always adored him (and vice versa as you can see):

I think that wraps up our visit - lots of fun and games.  We even got to have an early Thanksgiving turkey dinner together and used Oma & Opa's special "oven" thing... the only thing missing was Oma & Opa, hopefully next year.

It was a great first stop on our vacation! Thanks for letting us visit - until next spring ;-) We love you!