The Leonard Family: Happy Turkey Day!

We talk all year about how much we love Thanksgiving at Poppa and Nunno's! We talk about getting up to watch the parade, eating a YUMMY lunch with all of the family that Nunno makes, taking naps, and getting up to eat leftovers and watch Christmas Vacation that night. We are never disappointed! It was another really great year! (We did have a SMALL issue Thursday night that resulted in an ER visit and Jack's first stitches...I will dedicate an entire post to the little man and his stitches..so stay tuned! This is dedicated to our Thanksgiving!)

We headed up to Gainesville on Tuesday night after work. We got up there fairly late and the kids were both sound asleep in the car! It was nice to be up there and beat the traffic! The kids and I headed to Aunt Ruby's house to hang out for the morning. It was so great! We drank coffee and talked while the kids played. We left there and met Daddy, Poppa and Nunno for lunch at a great burger place! We did a little shopping while the kids napped and then had pizza with Aunt Jennifer, Uncle John, and Caitlin that night!

Thursday morning was soooo great! We got up and watched the parade in the basement on the "BIG" TV (as Jack says) while the "boys" fried the turkey! THREE turkeys actually! Two for us and one for a great family friend! I literally teared up watching Jack and Lucy watch the parade together (I know that is a little corny..but to see the excitement and fun between them was so great!) They both danced to the music and Jack jumped up and screamed for us to look at each and every thing he saw! He said his favorites were Spiderman, the marching bands, Charlie Brown, and Santa! Steven and I love it too and had a great time drinking coffee and watching it with the kids!

Sweet Thanksgiving Princess!

Lucy actually sitting in the oven!

Both kids stopping to check out what is going on in the parade

Watching the parade.... VERY comfortably!

Watching the parade together

Jack and Poppa checking the turkey!

The boys frying the turkey!

Happy Mommy and Daddy

Jack helped Poppa carve the turkey breast!

Family on Thanksgiving (Not great at getting everyone looking!)

Nunno made such a yummy lunch! We had lots of family there to enjoy it and Jack said the blessing for everyone! Lucy LOVED the lunch. She actually loves any time she gets to eat. It has gotten a little crazy how excited she gets about eating and how much she can eat! I think this may be her favorite holiday! Everything focused around eating! I have got to get it on video more often! You would think we never feed her!

First Thanksgiving

Daddy and his babies!

Matching Turkey shirts from Nunno!

ON THE MOVE!

Granny and her kids!

VERY lucky to have such a great Poppa and Nunno!

The afternoon was spent lounging around and talking with the family! We eventually decided to heat up some leftovers and enjoy it all over again! (However, before we got to enjoy our leftovers..... about TWO minutes before Jack was going to bed..he fell in the kitchen and busted his chin. It was split right open and we took him to the ER to get stitches. We were back in less than 1.5 hours. Jack was amazing... again, more to come on that!) It was a FANTASTIC Thanksgiving!

Fun bathtime!

Matching PJs!!! (Minutes before the fall!)

Happy girl (Notice tired Jack in the back...probably didnt help with the fall!)

The adults finishing Jack's "GO-Fish!" game!

We got up this morning and packed up and headed out to Highlands, NC. Steven, Jack, Lucy and I went to get the LEONARD FAMILY CHRISTMAS TREE!!!! It's our first time heading to the mountains to cut down our own tree! (Home Depot has been our Christmas tree provide for the past eight years!) We had a good time and it was so pretty up there! It was Jack's first trip to the mountains and he was fascinated seeing the BIG mountains and how high we were! He kept saying, "That is the BIGGEST mountain...I couldnt climb all the way to the top of that!" We rode out into the farm on an old truck and then walked around awhile looking for our tree! Jack would point out that "this one is too small, this one is too big, this one is JUST perfect!!!" Lucy enjoyed playing with the leaves on the ground! Hahaha! We found just the right one and Daddy cut it down! (all by himself!) We put it on the top of the MINIVAN and headed home! It was a fun new family tradition! We will spend tomorrow decorating the tree and hanging out just the four of us! It should be a really nice weekend! (anything that helps me forget that Miss Lucy's bday is just a few days away!) WOW - get ready for several blog posts.