Family Thanksgiving Fun!

November 2013

I'll admit, it was kind of nice not to have a holiday that didn't include a multi-hour car trip.  Not that I would trade those holidays for anything, but sometimes its nice to do something a little lower-key.  On Thanksgiving morning, we headed over to Fort Worth to spend the day at Nana and Papa's house with the McCarthy cousins.  Nana had a busy day planned, but we all took some family pictures outside while we still looked presentable.  Here's our family:

Brandi, Ryan, Lincoln and Charlie:

And Nana and Papa:

We headed inside and took a few more cousin pictures:

 

Then all the fun could begin.  The kids love to play with Nana's little people jungle:

Here's a cute shot of my big girl sitting in a barstool before our Thanksgiving meal.  Nana made a great Thanksgiving meal.  We brought some extremely sweet sweet potato casserole.  It was Charlie's favorite!  I can't believe we didn't get any pictures of the actual meal.

Nana also made these adorable cookie turkeys for dessert.  She's so creative!

After Thanksgiving dinner, Nana had another fun activity planned.  She had us bring over a bag of tiny trinkets we didn't need anymore.  She supplied the glue guns, styrofoam cones and gold spray paint and we had fun with our craft project.  It was supposed to be for the kids, but after a few minutes, they were on to other things, so all of the adults enjoyed some craft time!

After we decorated our Christmas trees, it was time for the gold spray paint.  The second picture gives you an idea of what the finished product looked like.  They all turned out really well!

Everyone had fun playing in the backyard while Tommy added the finishing touches to everyone's artwork:

Jack and Lincoln also took the Jeep for a spin around the neighborhood:

Happy Thanksgiving!  We have so much to be thankful for!