Shekynah is 6! She had a fun dinner at McD's and then home for a pretty purple cake and ice cream and presents!
We had fun trick candles that everyone enjoyed trying to blow out. We were glad Chrisy and Deyja could be here for it.
She got an American girl doll Addy and some cute clothes from Grandma and Chrisy/Deyja. Addy has been stuck to her ever since.
How many kids can you fit in a McDonalds playland slide. Remember Deyja is 5'10".
Every birthday we let the kids pick were they want to eat. Guaranteed 4 of them pick McDonalds...the other 4 groan in protest.
Birthday Girl!!!! 6 Years Old!
Doyle went straight for the couch and the remote for some football and napping.
Brayden headed for another couch and was out like a light.
And Masey seranaded Brayden with some Christmas music while he slept. The rest of us chatted over the leftovers while the kids played in the basement. All in all it was a wonderful Thanksgiving.
YUM!!! Turned out so good and everyone helped out, well almost all of the kids, notice one child is missing. He is sneaky and decided the potatoes were too difficult to peel so dad took over and somehow he wormed his way out of any other work.
We really enjoyed our dinner and stuffed ourselves silly. We all went around the table and said what we were thankful for this year. Most of the kids were thankful for family, the gospel, our home all except one.... who was thankful for girls. He was the one wearing a shirt that said "I only go to school for the girls." Very appropriate. The one and only Colbster.
Last one at the dinner table. She is usually the clean up crew, finishing up the left overs.
And finally.... dessert!!!
Shekynah and Eli had the difficult job of making the most noise possible and teasing all who are working.
Masey did gravy and Brooklyn the stuffing.
Kate caught in a moment of mischievousness. Trying to contaminate all food with her fingers.
And Brayden saved the day by doing green been casserole, corn and mashing potatoes! Such a good worker.
This year marks the first year we have done Thanksgiving all on our own. We did enjoy having Chrisy and Deyja visit from Arizona, although I doubt they will do it again in the winter. Its freezing out here! Doyle is doing his task of peeling potatoes and he did the turkey. We all signed up for what job we would like to do to participate in Thanksgiving dinner.
I chose rolls and pie's, although I did have to supervise many of the other tasks.
Serf went for the challeging role of doing the cranberry sauce (from a can). Funny thing is it took 3 of us to figure out how to get it out of the can.
Deyja was the official table setter. It is a big job being that there was 12 of us and we went extra fancy with the heavy duty paper plates... no flimsy ones for thanksgiving dinner!
