Thanksgiving

I am very thankful for a day to spend with my family. As I get older, I realize just how lucky I am to have had another year with all of my family still here. Mom and Dad are in Texas so we had Thanksgiving at Granny's. At lunch it was Granny, PeeWee and my family. We stayed all day and Zander enjoyed playing with his toys and talking to Granny. Around 3:00 Vickie, Rosie, Tracy and Savannah came over. They stayed for awhile and then the rest of Vicki's family came over along with Steve's family.
I spent the afternoon typing Granny's recipes and talking with her. That was really special. I will share the recipes when I get them finished.
There were alot of people in the house and lots of children! PeeWee and Marty also came for dinner. Marty brought his girlfriend who had her 3 year old with her as well. There were children running everywhere. Were we that loud when we were little? I don't think so. I realized today that I didn't even take any pictures. I was too busy. We tried to do as much as Granny would let us do, so she could rest. This is the first time that Granny has cooked and had us over in months. All of the children obviously have missed it and enjoyed it.
The only thing missing was Mom and Dad and Jenn's family. It also would have been nice if Summer's family could have been with us as well. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Roller skating

On Sunday, we were invited to Tyler's birthday party. It was at the local skating rink. This is the same skating rink that Jenn and I learned how to skate and spent every Saturday morning. I have so many fond memories there. For some reason when I walked in the door, I wanted a grilled cheese sandwich and a pickle.
I got Zander a pair of skates and we proceeded to try to help him skate. It was not working. He just kept rolling and couldn't figure out how to help. I finally realized that the other small children had on training skates. They still roll but they have a little support in the back and they don't roll as fast. He could do it by himself on the carpet and tried to do it by himself on the rink floor until he fell on his skate and hurt his leg.
It was really cute and I really enjoyed watching him.
Here is a link to more pictures and videos. I turned the camera sideways to take the video because I thought I could rotate them, apparently that is not the case. Sorry.

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