Dawson's Thanksgiving Feast

Happy Thanksgiving from my little Pilgrim!

At Dawson's preschool the three year old class dresses up as pilgrims and the four year old class dresses up like Native Americans.  It is so cute to watch!  They sing a bunch of turkey/Thanksgiving songs.  Dawson was so serious and straight faced during the performance.  I told Mike that the three words that describe him on stage were:  sad, morose, depressed.  He was clearly channeling the hard winter pilgrims, not the Happy Thanksgiving! pilgrims.

But once the performance was over he had a grin on his face while we enjoyed the nuggets, smiley face potatoes, corn  and muffins.

I'm so thankful for this sweet little guy!

Our Weekend and Ava's Best Day Ever!

Our Weekend in Pictures:

Christmas decorations are up!  And Dawson is putting the laser pointer up his nose so he looks like Rudolph!

Carter has made it clear that no John Deere stuff is allowed in his room.

Turkey hats and christmas jammies

We spent most of the afternoon outside today.  Carter was zipping around the pond.  It's hard to tell but he has mud splatters from his shoes to his chin!

All the kids decided to sell ice for a living.  They were using rakes, brooms, shovels and rakes to break the ice in pieces and carry it around.  Luckily it was almost 60 degrees because everyone ended up soaking wet.

As we were leaving Ava told me "This is my best day ever."  Good, I'm glad that I could make your day!  

Then it was home to warm showers and hot cocoa.

Pictures of Abbie

I love taking pictures of tiny little newborns and I was so fortunate to be able to take some pictures of our newest cousin!

Funny story:  this picture was so hard to get.  She did not like the rings on her toes at all!  As soon as I put them on her toes she would kick them off almost immediately!

A sweet little smile!

What an adorable little girl, and we are so excited for her arrival!

Cousins and more from this past weekend!

Awww!  All five together for the first time!

What a sweet picture of Bo and Andrew

What's that, you want more pictures of Ava and Abigail?  Ok!!

Dawson was spoiled with birthday presents, a John Deere remote control tractor, John Deere overalls and a shirt, a John Deere flashlight, and a John Deere hat.  Thank you so much Bo and Grandma, Uncle Jason and Aunt Tiffany!  He has been wearing this little overall set almost nonstop!

Daddy sledding with Dockie!

Snow Fun!

We got to play in our first snow of the season at Grandma and Bo's house!  At the time there was no snow at our house, so it was exciting to drive there and see a little accumulation!

Having Fun with Slinky

Dawson's snow angels were rather.....violent

Ava ate snow and icicles non stop.  We asked her to go on a little walk, and she had to bring a "snack" or snowball with her.

It was so fun to play with cousin Andrew!

 

Nope, it's not a UFO, it's the snowball that Carter threw at me.  I love this picture!

Carter really impressed me with his snowboarding skills.

Sledding!

Happy Smiles!

I tried, and this is a lot harder than it looks!

Dawson's preferred luge method.  He also told us "I'm not scared of the fun, Mom."  Spoken like a true adrenaline junkie.

Grandma and Andrew took a turn sledding together!  Look at that smile!

There were four in the sled......

I wish Andrew had a smile like he did in the first one!  Oh well, what more can you ask for than four kids looking at the camera?

Meeting Cousin Abigail

This past weekend we went to visit our new baby cousin, Abigail.  I took so man pictures, and it was especially easy to get pictures of Ava cuddling her newest little cousin!

Grandma with her Granddaughters

Uncle Mike with Abigail, Ava looking on

Initially Carter was a little reluctant to hold his newest cousin, but he enjoyed holding her.

John Deere holding Abigail

I love these pictures

So precious

cousin Andrew and Dawson, they really bonded over their love for John Deere!

Lazy Weekend

Thanks to our sweet new niece, Abigail, we had a wonderful lazy weekend with no plans.  

I'm a sucker for a caught reading picture.  Carter and Ava reading in front of the fire.

Terrible picture, but they were having a LOT of fun.  We spent most of Saturday in the basement preparing it for the winter months so the kids can play basketball, soccer, nerf guns and sword fights.  It will be great to have a place to run around and burn energy!

Then we topped off the day with the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie and pizza, of course!

I'm also a sucker for brother reading to brother!  Carter was reading Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel from to his little brother.

And as I'm sure you already know, Miss Abigail decided to make her appearance yesterday!  Happy Birthday little girl!  I'm very excited to meet her soon!