Thanksgiving 2009

We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  We sure did.  This year, besides all the usual suspects, we were probably most thankful that we had all finally gotten over the Swine Flu.  It wiped us out pretty bad for about a week.

Our celebrations started on Wednesday when we got to see the Pruss family who was up from St. Louis.  Jake, Elle, and Zach all had fun playing together.  The adults enjoyed some takeout from, where else, East Side Mario's and then played a little bit of Little Big Planet on the PS3.  The visit came to and end much to soon, but we look forward to seeing them again around Christmas.

We spent Thursday at Grandma and Grandpa's house where there was plenty of food, and with DLCnM, there was also plenty of family to hang out with.  The weather was cooler, but still nice enough to let us throw the pigskin around for a while.  Dan and Colin then played hide and seek out in the yard and woods for about an hour even after they had to take a break to grab flashlights since it had gotten so dark!

On Friday, we headed over to Meme and Papa's house.  Jake got to hang out with them, and Alison, for a while by himself while Michele and I went to the movies with Nez to see New Moon.  While I didn't lose my breath every time a character took of his shirt like the two Twilight mom's next to me, I did enjoy the movie over-all, regardless of what Mark might think about me for even going.  After that, we spent the rest of the day hanging out around the house and playing board games.  Then, after Papa and I moved it up from the basement, we played some Wii Sports Resort.  Hopefully, getting the console up on the main level will get them playing it a bit more often.

Today, we got started on the Christmas decorations around our house.  Jake has been waiting patiently, and was very excited to get out Rudolph, Frosty, and Homer Santa!  He then decorated his fish tank with some window clings and hung the mini ornaments on the little tree in his room.  Hopefully tomorrow we'll get the last of the leaves taken care of and then get the outdoor decorations up.

You can find the updates to our photos starting here.

November? Already?

This post is coming in a bit late, but in case you were worried, we did celebrate Halloween in the Anderson household.  We started off by going to a function at Michele's school earlier in the week where Jake got to wear his costume and go to a few different rooms with different activities.  Then, with Halloween falling on a Saturday, it was actually busier than normal.  Jake had both sets of grandparents to help him celebrate.  He also had his buddy Jack with his parents, Melissa and Steve.  The boys had a fun evening of playing and then trick or treating followed by more playing!  Here are some of our shots from those days.

The day after Halloween, we added DLCnM to our overnight guests, GnGT, to celebrate Grandpa's birthday.  We had a nice brunch and ended up spending a bit of time playing outside since it was so nice out.  You can see a few of those shots here.