The Leonard Family: Thankful and Merry!

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Thankful and Merry!

It was a very happy Thanksgiving in Gainesville this year! It was so great to have all of the family together! We headed up on Tuesday night after work and enjoyed spending Wednesday just hanging out and playing (and not driving in any more traffic!) Thursday was so fun! We got up and watched the parade and played in the backyard! The boys threw a football for a little while. Jack enjoyed playing until he took a ball to the eye and then decided it was more fun to climb on top of the playhouse and check out the trail in the woods! The boys fried three turkeys (as usual it was slightly stressful but still fun!) The turkey turned out terrific! Nunno worked so hard and we had so much yummy food! We relaxed for the afternoon, played in the backyard and ate leftovers that night! It was a perfect day!

It's exhausting to be a kid!

Aunt Jenn brought Thanksgiving cookies to bake!

Lucy loved brushing Caitlin's hair!

Wild hair watching the parade!

Lucy loved all the singing in the parade!

Turkey #1 coming out!

Cousins love eachother!

Backyard fun!

The boys frying turkeys!

Jack spent a lot of his day up at the top of the playhouse! He observed turkey frying from up there too!

Mommy and Daddy!

Typical Lu Lu... on the phone hanging out with a flamingo!

John and Steven pulling out turkey #2!

Jack is really concentrating while carving the turkey with Poppa!

Poppa's helpers!

KIDS TABLE!!!!

Happy Leonard babies!

The original family photo!

Four kids!

How the kids felt after they ate Thanksgiving lunch!

Sweet babies coloring together while the adults finished lunch!

Friday morning we went to Nanny's for an AMAZING breakfast! The kids had at least 3 servings each of biscuits, grits and sausage! After about two bites Jack said, "This is the best breakfast!" (I couldn't have begged him to say that at the perfect time!) We were very grateful to get to visit! With full tummies, we hopped in the van and headed to the mountains to get our Christmas tree. Jack loved seeing how high we were up in the mountains! It got cold as the afternoon went on! We went through the Elf Village and picked out our "perfect" tree! We had some pizza before heading out of town and coming home.
This morning we got up and brought our tree inside and and got the lights on it! We played outside and had snacks during the afternoon and then headed back in to decorate the tree. The kids were GREAT at unwrapping ornaments (while sitting on their bottoms and not standing up!) and handing them all to us! Jack even got to help out with the Angel on the top of the tree! We had soup and sandwiches for dinner followed up by Smores by the chiminea. It was a happy day!