Gobble 'Til You Wobble!

  Phew!  What a whirlwind of a short vacation.  It was packed full of lots of family, fun and food!

The festivities began on Tuesday of this past week when Mike and I volunteered at A and C's school for their Friendship Feast.  It was fun to put faces to names!

 The twins went for a run with me the other day....trying to head into this holiday season in a slight calorie deficit...

They made it .6 of a mile!

 Mike and Cam also finished their first annual Christmas puzzle!

 Barbe-Mimi got us started on a fun tradition.  We'll keep coloring and adding these each year!

 Our week continued to Wednesday when we all had a half-day of school.  We continued cooking and then headed out to the Lights in the Parkway 5K!

So beautiful!

 Thanksgiving then arrived....and back into the kitchen we went!  Miles didn't seem too worked up over the commotion....

Every time I opened up a can of pumpkin, these two came running thinking it was tuna!

Cam helped to make the Pumpkin Cornbread Stuffing....

Allie helped with decorating!

Mike smoked his first turkey!

Yum yum!

Little bit of outside play!

The ladies enjoyed coloring together.

Almost ready!

YUM!

Baby Cole

We enjoyed a bottle of wine from our favorite winery in California!

We used my Mom's gravy bowl!

Poppy Claus made a surprise visit!

Relaxing with Poppy....

 The next day we headed out to find our Christmas trees!

FOCUSED!

The DiFrank's found theirs!

Allie found the kids' tree -- she was guarding it!

Let's chop this sucker down!

Read to catch it!

What a great helper!!

Allie says, "I'll take care of this part!"

We're outta here!

You can see the whole crew....with Jay WAY ahead in the distance!

Home to set it up!

  Bah-Bah and Shorty then came down Friday evening for a visit!

Shorty and Simon got along very well!  Miles was a different story...

I introduced my dad to Snapchat.  It was HILARIOUS!

My dad brought down his new toy....

We zipped around Coopersburg for a bit and took some neighborhood kids on a ride!

Bah-Bah and Cam played Pop the Pig!

It was a lovely day to relax outside!

A one-horned reindeer!

 Uncle Matty came over to hang out and I made him play piano with me again!!!  Even though he complains, I think he enjoys it!

LOVE our tree this year!

It's a big one!!!

 And finally on Sunday...we went to meet the big guy in red!

Allie and Cam worked hard on their list....30 some items were on there!!!!

Allie had colored a picture of Santa winking his eye to give to the real Santa...so he thought it would fun to get a picture of HIM winking his eye!

Love the wonder of Christmastime!

Best one we got!

These three are going to be trouble in a few years....

Love the lighting in this picture!

We are READY for December!!!!