Happy Thanksgiving 2011

Another split holiday down in 2011!  This year, we spent the first half of Thanksgiving at the Charles home and the second half at the Rawson's.  Great food, cute munchkins and excellent company at both made for a good time (until I got home and threw up everything from the entire day...thank you, pregnancy.)  Now enjoy mostly kid-centered pictures from Turkey Day because, well, the kids are cuter than the adults.  Especially the one below...isn't he gorgeous? 

I stole the seven pics below from Tracie...With a family this big, you need at least a few photographers present.

Little rascals snooping around their Auntie's purse...

Dominic just keeps getting cuter and cuter, and he was happy to have a fellow baby there, Gavin Hatch!

Liam instructed all of the older kids that "a triangle has one, two, three sides."  Genius.  

And then I made out with my child...  Hopefully, I don't get thrown in jail.

We were too busy eating our faces off (for the second time) and failing at starting a game, that I only got turkey-coma pictures of the Rawsons!  I'll do better next year, guys.  

And you only get to be the Hot-Grammy if you resist the delicious breads and desserts on holidays...I'm serious, not a bite.  She is melting.  I'm thankful my mom is healthier than she has been in years so that we can keep her around for a few more decades!

Happy Thanksgiving, all!  I have so much to be thankful for this year, it would be too much to list.  Let's just say, I love my sweet family more than the moon and the stars.  

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

And to a Christmas near you (for 10 days!)  I can't wait to get a hold of these cheeks...

You can take the kid out of Texas, but...

Eli is already dreading the trip back home...

We can't wait to see you guys!

Halloweenathon

Somehow, between Liam's four birthday parties, we managed to fit in several Halloween-related events. (No wonder I feel like I need a month-long nap.)  I think Liam felt similarly after we asked him to "be the sheriff" for the fourteenth time in a week.  That much power comes with a price.  To start things off and for the third year in a row, we visited the witches at Gardener Village where Liam would've happily danced on stage the entire evening if permitted.  

  

Next up: trick-or-treating in Glenwild (the mansions).  Seven munchkins and six adults packed A-Team-style into Uncle Kevin's Halloween Party Van and made the rounds.  I was surprised that not one of the Glenwild homeowners passed out diamond necklaces!  Lame.  This was Liam's first trick-or-treating experience and he took to it like a champ, besides trying to move into every house on the route (smart man.)  

Halloween on Main Street is a spectacle not to be missed.  It's like the one-stop shopping of trick-or-treating.  Liam's favorite part was watching the flash mob do Thriller (over and over and over).  Of course, he joined in.  And here you can see our nice little family: Lady Liberty, an illegal alien from outer space and Sheriff Arpaio of Maricopa County.

We wrapped things up with Jack O'latern making on Halloween night.  Sticking to the pattern of the last few years, we received not one trick-or-treater, sadly.  And that is the price of living on a mountaintop...I think we covered all of our bases this year, though, don't you?