Monday, December 10, 2012

Thanksgiving 2012

**UPDATE: Pictures have been added!!**

I'm not able to post pictures right now and that's super frustrating, but I thought I'd at least write about what we're up to.


We had such a nice long weekend of fun! Mom and Grandpa came up the day before and we made a couple pies. Thursday the Espinos came up and the kids were so excited to see each other again. Jon’s in charge of cooking the Cornish game hens (we’ve cooked them since 2008).

Some highlights included the kids dressing up, putting puzzles together, wrestling, Isabel reading to everyone, playing games, Grandpa washing all the dishes, and lots of eating.




Why are these children attacking their great grandpa?! 


Grandpa at his post.  



 I love Jon! He cracks me up!

The next day was really relaxing and perfect.
The day before Thanksgiving, Jon discovered that we had about a foot of water in our crawl space, so Saturday morning he rented a sump pump and pumped it all out. We figure it must have come through the crawl space entrance (the door was broken so when it rained 6 inches in one day, it all collected under our house.) He finished that job right as Dad and the Garner grandparents arrived for the day. Amy came back up that day too. We went to the Naval Undersea Museum and spent a couple hours there looking at all the exhibits and watching the kids play. Sunday, we all headed to Tacoma for a continuation of the party. We stayed at a hotel with Dad with a pool!




It was so nice to have so many days in a row of fun with so much family. It was hard to go back home and to reality.  I guess we can’t vacation all the time!

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