Thanksgiving festivities

Another Thanksgiving has come and gone...can't believe that means another year has done the same. Last year about this time we were in Minnesota, getting ready to come back to Idaho for the holidays and then move to Louisiana. Then have a baby. We had no idea how much could change in a years time. How much Ethan would grow and learn, and the joy our new little Ben would be to our family. We are blessed with so much it is practically impossible for me to find words. So let the faces tell all. We have it ALL and are so grateful to a loving Father in Heaven. Here are some of the festivities...

Since Ethan's name is hard for children to say we get various adorable pronunciations from his friends, but the best is his own version of his name, Ee-hee, so this picture depicts one of his favorite things to do as he coins it ee-hee howp (Ethan helps) If you cannot tell, he was delighted to help roll out cookie dough!

A whole lotta wrestling happens around our place...even the baby gets mixed in!

Love how much my hubby loves his boys, he's the best dad in the world!

Ben in all his chubby glory, even his rolls have rolls, and every one is delightful! No one can get enough of him!

Already such a character! Can't believe he's already 8 1/2 months!

Ethan giving kisses to "Flat Lizzie" Aunt Liz is on her mission so we bring her lifesize photo self to family gatherings...Ethan was a little confused...

Ethan following Ba pa "howping" with yardwork

This was a serious highlight for Ethan...he LOVES things with wheels that go vroom...in fact he calls them vrooms and another phrase we hear on repeat while we are riding in the car is ee-hee dries (Ethan drives) because he wants to go to home depot and ride in the carts with the steering wheels...oh to be two


Ethan also gave us a lesson on Vrooms over the holiday. He loves grandpa's truck, which is a diesel and makes a delightful vroom, Ethan calls it Ba pa's vroom. The orange car which I drive is typically called Mom's vroom (occassionally it gets to be Dad's vroom) and when we pulled out the vacuum at Grandma and Grandpa's house Ethan dubbed it as Grandma's vroom. Sorry Katie, that really seems like you got the bad end of that deal.

Well that's about it for that holiday....now on to another update that will take me a month to do haha!