Thanksgiving Day 2012

Thanksgiving at Grandma and Grandpa Dangerfield's house was very memorable.  We had a lot of Indians this year and one lone pilgrim...

Emily entertained the kids during some of the cooking - she read to them about Thanksgiving and led them in singing some autumn songs...

Hey Jake - there's a turkey on your head...

The kids table.  How adorable are these kids...

Sweet Claire - anxious to eat...

Jake- the Indian Brave...

My pretty pilgrim Becca...

Funny Caroline...

Uncle Peter built the Mayflower!  The kids loved coloring the outside of it and climbing through it and peering out the lookout...

Time to play with the babies!

We had a little Thanksgiving performance - the kids sang 10 little Indians... here's the end of it :)

The day after Thanksgiving we spent all morning cleaning and decorating for Christmas.  I love Christmas decorations!.  Later we met up with Ben's family to see Santa Clause.  Claire didn't want to get near him - but the rest of my kids love Santa.  The girls had each written him a letter asking various questions about his reindeer and flying sleigh.  Emma asked for a puppy or a Nintendo DS (oh boy).  I tried to explain to Emma that Santa isn't going to bring her something that mommy or daddy wouldn't approve of - we are trying to get her to think of a larger list of gift ideas for Santa to work with :)

That evening Emily set up babysitters at her house while the adults went out to dinner at Charleston's (yay bread pudding!!) and to see the movie Lincoln.  It was a great day!