An Early Christmas

It was a lot of fun to have an early Christmas morning!!!

Last night Ju Ju had the girls help her put up the snowmen and decorate the Christmas tree!

They had fun wearing the Andersons' Santa hats and their own light up Christmas

necklaces....

Shelby's Birthday and Thanksgiving Stories

Aunt JuJu threw Shelby a great birthday party! Thanks JuJu!

We had a blast playing volleyball....OUR team won!!!

Toby loves his Aunt Chew!!!!

Hannah had to be called of the trampoline she'd been on for a LONG time, for this picture!!

Jules found a good lighting for this pic!

Having fun!!!!

We love our family!!!!!

How sweet!!! Jake was SO GOOD playing with the cousins!!!

Thanksgiving in Sugar Land

We had a great Thanksgiving day today! This laptop is not letting me move the pictures down, so they are a bit out of order. Here we are having dinner this evening.

This morning, Tim, Mason, Mallory, Paul and Linda went out to the range to do some shooting. Paul and Linda had not shot a handgun before, and they did great. In fact, Linda's first shot was a bullseye!

We thought you all would appreciate seeing how Mason's ham biscuit looked like a fish. He added the corn kernel eye, but the rest just happened. Did anyone else have fish for Thanksgiving?

Paul is the patriarch of ping pong. Tim and Mason have followed along in his footsteps.

We had appetizers mid-afternoon and read a story about the Pilgrims.

Everyone enjoyed a little Bocce, soccer, and Frisbee.

We played this game where you had to replace the words of familiar songs with the words "Gobble Gobble", and the other team had to guess. It was pretty funny!

We also read Thanksgiving Proclamations from George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Those guys had some good ideas that we would do well to bring back to America today!

Mason with his new shotgun....

Gramps

It was a beautiful day outside!!!!

The Crowell kids with Grandpa......

Watch out, those boys are getting taller!

Say Cheese!!!!!

Thanksgiving!

Eating Thanksgiving lunch in Ju Ju's playroom.

The girls are getting ready to retell the Thanksgiving story using pictures they made.

The guys having their feast!

More Thanksgiving!

Jules had a Thanksgiving wordsearch and Little Jo has a Big Mind and won the game!

We are all working so hard to find the words...it was fun, thanks, Jules!

A little Nertz game, anyone?

The cousins had fun together!

The 5 blondes love JuJu!!!!

Awake and ready to say Good Morning to Patches!!!

Had to get in the sisters pic...but we are missing Deb and Kel very much!!!!

Below- Aunt JuJu gave the blondes juice boxes on her bed!!!! her response when Jo and I said no way was " There is nothing more precious in this house than children!"

Yes, Patches Made The Christmas Card