Celebrating Thanksmas in NH

Finding time to get everyone together for Thanksgiving AND Christmas is tough so this year we created an interim holiday - Thanksmas. We had a good old fashioned Thanksgiving meal then celebrated Christmas by opening gifts around the tree.  Best of both worlds!  We had a great weekend and the kids loved spending time with their cousins on Papa's farm.  COLD COLD COLD for us southcoasters.  It snowed all day Saturday but a light snow that was really pretty.  The cold snowy weather didn't keep the kids indoors, they were outside most the day helping with the barn chores or playing in the first snow of the season.  Papa spoiled the kids with gifts which they were extremely happy about as you can imagine. Grampy came for the weekend too which was nice.  Paige and Grampy have a little bond.  It is so cute to see a 3 year old and a 94 year old playing together.  Paige walks right up to Grampy and said "you want to play doctor with me?" and that was that.  Two hours later I found them in the family room still playing together.  Too cute!  The kids were so tired from too much fun.  After hockey on Sunday we laid low.

 

Pics of the house.  Nicely decorated for the season -

 Out to the barn.  Madison and Copper -

 Couple of crazies -

 Time for some chores.  Gotta get water and hay to the horses in the pasture -

 Walking Sophie out -

 

 In for a mid afternoon warm up -

 Back out for some tag -

 Papa's house in the background -

 Presents time -

 NOW you look like you belong in NH -

 Wooden flute -

 Cheetah!  My fav!!

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!

Kids watched Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving this morning as we cleaned and cooked.  They were SO excited for their cousins to come.  Waiting until noon seemed like an eternity.  We had a great day...good food and great family!

We cooked a trial turkey last week with this new glaze I'm trying out on the bird.  Jay was carving the turkey as Paige walked into the kitchen. With a look of horror on her face she said “NO DADDY!! Don’t hurt the turkey! You will hurt him with your knife. Let me kiss him”

Because ya know, cutting his head off, draining him, removing his insides, plucking his feathers, and cooking him until golden brown didn’t hurt him. It was the carving that did him in.

Kid table -

 Big kid table-

 Tgiving and Football -

 Trying to get a couple good shots of the 4 -

Paige's Tgiving Performance

Paige had her Thanksgiving feast at school this morning.  They sang some songs per the usual and then we all headed to the basement for a good old Thanksgiving meal.  They decorate the table so cute with crafts the kids made at school.  After they ate, the kids moved over to the section with all the cute little baby animals.  Paige was thrilled with the bunny she was holding.  She kept holding and holding and holding that little guy.  The kitten was a bit to playful for her and she got nervous when it batted at her nose :) 

Fashion genius or crazy lady??

Paige's fashion sense has always been a bit out there.  Seems to be getting more and more out there.  Lately she has taken to wearing her bathing suit around the house.  Usually she puts on tights or leggings either over or under the swimsuit.  She accessorizes, as you can see, with anything she can find.  She is also partial to one winter hat she has been wearing around the house and one night we found her wearing it to bed. 

Oh and did I mention that all the below pictures were taken in a single day!  Yes....I do not lie.

 

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Luke is all the way to the left with the red/black flannel shirt and cowboy hat on, dancing with the little girl in the polka dot skirt.  I don't have a great angle if you can't tell but I did my best to get it on video.  As you can see, he was VERY excited.  Before I started taping and as he was walking out he was looking looking looking around for Paige and me!  Too cute...

DO-SI-DO

 

Today, Luke had a dance show at school.  The whole school was involved.  The music teacher has been working with the kids for months.  Each grade had a different theme from around the world.  If you haven't guessed kindergarten did a USA dance - folk dance.  It was really so cute.  Luke was SO excited about it.  I picked Paige up from school and we both were able to attend.  Thumbs up buddy!  You did awesome!!!

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Getting into costume...literally!

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Paige, singing her heart out while riding her bike -

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Paige and her class singing their Halloween song -