Thanksgiving Weekend

We packed up one week ago to make the 4 1/2 hour drive to Arkansas for Thanksgiving. Our trip was not without a few laughs since Eli decided in the middle of Kansas at 9 pm at night that he needed to go #2. So, we pulled off on the side of the road and... ahem.. let him take care of business. (He is going to love learning someday that I used our family blog to talk about this). :)

It didn't take Eli and Hailey long to settle into life at Nana and Papa D's once we arrived. There was lots of book reading and wagon rides throughout the weekend.

 We enjoyed celebrating Thanksgiving with my mom's whole side of the family. My mom had cooked and cooked for days before we arrived so we then enjoyed eating and eating our entire stay. Did anyone else feel like Hailey did after eating Thanksgiving dinner??? This girl can eat. :)

 One of my cousins was there with her little boy, Tucker, who is just a few weeks younger than Eli (and a good 6 inches taller than him!). They quickly became buds, but Eli kept forgetting his name and would just ask me, "Hey mom, where'd my friend go?"

All the girls with our Papaw. :)

We carried the fun through the whole weekend, but I have too many pictures to put up on here tonight. I will get those up in the next few days! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Bored?

Clearly I am not interesting enough to keep this little girl entertained. Lucky for her that her daddy will be home tonight. These kids will be so happy to see him tomorrow (and I'm pretty excited too!)!

New Family Pics

Here are some of the pictures that we took as a family a few weeks ago!

Thirty

Today, I officially entered a new decade of life. Although today is no different than yesterday, I somehow feel older. Marc is still out of town today so I decided to take a day to myself. I took the kids to school even though they would have normally been home with me. They didn't know the difference since they go four days a week anyway, but it was wonderful for me. I slept in until it was time to take them downstairs (remember we live in the same building as their daycare) and then slowly proceeded through the most relaxing morning I have had in a long time. It reminded me of the mornings in college when I didn't start class until 10 or 11 in the morning and could take extra long eating breakfast, getting ready, and reading my bible. I LOVE where God has me right now in life, but having a "day off" was something I have not done in a long while and I think it was needed. :)

Marc and I celebrated my birthday last weekend when my mom was in town and offered to watch the kids for us for the night. We went out for a great dinner and then stayed at a nice hotel in downtown Wichita. Marc was full of stories from the medical missions conference he had just gotten back from and we talked and talked the night away. I am so thankful for Marc's friendship and companionship. We have the best time when we are together.

When we got back to the house the next morning we decided to put Eli and Hailey in some Christmas clothes that my mom had bought them. We tried to get some good pictures of the two of them (which never happened) before Marc had to head out on the road again for his work week away.

What a ham this boy is!

They just were not having the bro/sis pics.

I do have some picture that I hope to get put up tomorrow that we had made recently. They are pretty cute. I can't put them all up because some will be arriving under trees this year as presents, but I will share a few. :)