Thanksgivingmas

This year we spent Thanksgiving break with Trevor's family, and since we will all be gone over Christmas, we threw in a little faux Christmas celebration over the break too. Along with his brother Nate and his sister Danika, we all spent the whole break in Alpine.

Some of the highlights from the weekend of family-togetherness:

-endless entertainment for a 1 year old in a big house
-every kind of pie we ever wanted on thanksgiving
-discovering the "hanging with friends" app and battling all weekend long
-a faux Christmas Eve feast just 3 days after Thanksgiving
-baby-less black friday shopping with Trevor
-unlimited bowling at willowcreek country club with the Emery family
-scoring over 100 bowling...without bumpers (yeah, sad that this is actually an achievement for me)
-watching danika rock a 170+ score bowling
-Smiths Marketplace grocery shopping + 3 siblings with their mom's debit card = at least a few items purchased that were not on the list
-hide-and-seek games with Thompson that were much more exciting with all the new hiding spots
-Thompson taking his first few steps (and then refusing to do it again)
-watching Trevor beat his siblings almost every time at pool

Sunday was our pretend Christmas.We waited to open presents until Thompson was in a good mood so it would be more fun for him. He was interested for a few minutes...

...and then he just wanted to eat the wrapping paper. And run away.

Trevor's parents surprised us with all the same big gift this year...

 

...Vitamixes!

We also got some great gifts from Trevor's siblings, and had a fun and relaxing faux Christmas morning.

 I think my favorite part of the weekend though was how much time Thompson was able to spend with his aunt, uncle, and Grandpa and Grandma and how comfortable he got with them. He really loved taking a break from his constant exploration, crawling up to someone, and savoring all the attention and playtime with them.

The day after we got home, we were putting away some pictures to make room for Christmas decorations. I had put a picture of Trevor's family down on the coffee table to put away, and I saw Thompson crawl over. I was about to move it because I thought he would just try to knock it off, but he looked at it for a second and then got the biggest smile on his face. He just sat and smiled at it for a long time, then looked at us all excited. It was the cutest thing ever.