Our Thanksgiving Day...

The tree is a work in progress. The littles can't be trusted within twenty feet of the tree without dismantling it, so it changes hour to hour. We had to move all breakable ornaments to the top of the tree, along with all the candy canes and Isaac spends all day knocking all the bottom ornaments off the tree so it's not ever going to look like something that you'd see in a catalog or movie BUT they love it and that's all that matters.lol


Voila!


Here is our very first homemade icecream pie! The kids want this as our new tradition from now on. We got this idea from De'Etta's and Kathy's blog. We used chocolate crust, chocolate icecream, three Musketeer's candy bars, Cool Whip and melted Chocolate chips drizzled on top. Yum!


All in all, it was a good day. I think the littles had fun and I think the older kids had fun and that's hard to do with that big of an age span! We had issues but life has issues so I'm calling it good.LOL

Blessings,

Our Thanksgiving Day...

As our fabulous house was coming together, the kids started getting a little goofy. I really don't know why, perhaps it could have been the candy...nah, I'll just chalk it up to an "off day".lol


Evie pretending to be a model with the wind blowing in her hair. Really, she's a natural...lol


Isaac being cute...


Notice his hands are in both bowls...


Mick Jagger I presume?


Now you all know my secret, we have a huge sucking machine above the dining room table to keep messes from hitting the floor...


Please don't make me eat this candy pose?


Voila! Our masterpiece! :snort:


Well, I think I need another post just for the tree. That part of our day went just as well.LOL

Our Thanksgiving Day...

Our day dawned bright and early with the exciting hum of the Nebulizer. Yes, Sophia was wheezing like an 80year old chain smoking asthmatic. We started the treatments and are doing the 5am, 1pm, and 9pm routine for now reserving the right to change and do the 5-11-5-11 plan. After her treatment and subsequent buzz wore off, I accidently (oh, who am I kidding?) fell asleep.lol My Thanksgiving day restarted at the ripe hour of 10am. Yikes! That got me in gear.lol I got dinner started and set the older kids to bringing in the Christmas tree and decorations. The littles were overexcited and my living room can attest to that.lol

I made the executive decision to have the kids begin the annual Gingerbread house assembly. Nothing says gingerbread like the sound of a hair dryer...feel the fun folks...

Jon was an expert roof holder togetherer...

He also made a great model...

Here they are decorating the house while my younger ones look on in a candy induced stupor...

Here's Jon showing the proper way to adhere the candy to the house...

I'm breaking up the excitment into two parts because I don't want to overwhelm you all with our exciting day...