Saturday, December 5, 2009

Thanksgiving Weekend Away

This year we spent Thanksgiving with the Willis side. We had a great time spending 4 days at Cams parents house. We loved playing with our cousins too!!! Here we are Thanksgiving night out cold on our cots...belly's full and completely exhausted!!

Silly Colin!! He was hiding a ball form his cousin Everett....doesn't look
obvious where it is does it:)Would you believe that I didn't take any pics the second day we were there...we went to the Children's Museum. The moms shopped while the dads stayed at the museum and watched the kids. We were busy the whole time we were there and I was relaxing and enjoying myself so I didn't take as many pics:) Cam and I got up two of the mornings and went to their YMCA and got in a good work out. It helped to lighten the guilt of everything we ate while we were there:)

Pretty smile:) We were on our way to Iowa to go to the mall, see the movie Planet 51 and then go to a Christmas Lights Parade that night in Burlington.

Colin was amazed that we were leaving the stae of Illinois and going to Iowa:)
Our first visit with Santa....Kaitlyn is telling him that yes she has been a good girl!!

Thanks Santa for spending so much time talking with us.....this Iowa Santa was very nice:)

Uncle Craig wants a new tractor for mowing his lawn. Colin wanted to check out the John Deere's. This was his favorite one!!

This bridge is the dividing line for Illinois and Iowa...when we drove over it Kaitlyn yelled out, "mommy...Iowa is so BOO-tiful".

Family Pic....it was SO warm out....notice 3 out of the 4 of us didn't even have coats on!

Cousins Pic

Another cousins pic with Ike in it too:)

Here we are waiting for the parade to start once it got dark out. We missed Uncle KC, Uncle Chad and Papa. Papa was still in the field so he was working some of the time we were visiting.

Auntie Jill and her boys:)

Grandma, Kaitlyn, Colin and Everett!

One of the floats. Everything was lit up really nice. The kids had a great time watching the parade!!!
Video of Kaitlyn, Everett and Colin dancing during the parade:)

Video of Santa arriving!!
The bridge lit up at night!!

Do you think Kaitlyn was tired after the parade?!?! She was sleeping on the couch even with about 14 people in the house:)

Thanks to Uncle Craig for being a good sport and letting Kaitlyn do your hair:) What a great Uncle you are....oh and your hair looked awesome when Kaitlyn finished!!

Colin loved Grandma's chocolate pudding..yum!!

Our last day...getting ready to go to church. We had a wonderful time at Grandma and Papas house!!! We look forward to seeing everyone again in about 2 weeks for the Willis Christmas!!!

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