Thanksgiving

We are all recovery from a festive Thanksgiving weekend.  We thoroughly enjoyed spending quality time with our family and wonderful food and drinks.  Thursday was rather busy from the moment we woke up to going to bed late!  Josh made some fabulous bread, which we all know Weitzels LOVE!!!  Only the early arrivers got to enjoy the cinnamon hazelnut loaf and let me tell you it was GREAT (Ewan would agree, he had 3 pieces).

As always the meal was wonderful and not a single person left hungry.  Ewan enjoyed his birthday cake which he shared with all the other November/December birthday people (busy time of year in our family)!  I would say by far the best time was had by Jack and Mary Kate.  They are second cousins and they had an instant bond.  We last saw Mary Kate in May and Jack had a great time with her and her older brothers, Jake and Joe.  But somehow this time it was all about Mary Kate.  He would chase her all over the place.  Jack would look for her and ask for her by name.  She would say "I love you Jackie"!   It was so precious!!!

Ewan also had a wonderful time.  He mostly did his own thing.  He was in his element showing off for everyone.  He also enjoyed time with the cousins.  It's nice to see a newer generation enjoy the holiday together.

Friday all the kids, their parents and Opa went to EdVenture.  Everyone had a blast.  Jack's favorites were the grocery store, firetruck, car and Snowville.  Ewan enjoyed it all too, especially the "snowballs" in Snowville. 

Needless to say after staying up late two nights in a row and playing very hard each day the boys need a little recovery time!  And so do Mommy and Daddy!!  More importantly, we needed to go get a new washer and dryer today.  Unfortunately it won't arrive until December 22.  So that means more drying at Oma's house until then (we did four loads last night)!!!  Nothing like a challenge for us!! 

Here are just a few pics from the weekend...we took nearly 200 so needless to say I haven't gone through them all just yet!!

OK....technical difficulties again with the pics.  Will try to do a slide show on Photobucket tonight or tomorrow and get it up.