thanksgiving

we have so much to be thankful. here are just a few things we are thankful for -- our Lord and Savior and His presence in our lives, charlie, our families, mayo and bill's job, our marriage, fantastic friends and so much more.

we hosted our first thanksgiving - my parents, siblings (sans tommy) and mary came to rochester to celebrate (and for my dad to do some work around our house :) thanks dad!). charlie loved the attention.

"the core" thinking they are winning the gingerbread house challenge. of course - bill and i won. i will post the winning gingerbread house pic in a bit.

danny, dad and suzanne "watching" charlie. my mom and i were cleaning up in the kitchen (surprise, surprise) and they said they were playing with him. if you look you will see - danny playing with his new PS3, my dad on his mac, suzanne on her mac and charlie "standing" by holding on to danny's foot. thanks guys! to their credit - they did play with charlie a ton i just could not resist posting this picture.

suzanne and danny frosting and decorating christmas cookies.

one thing i am not sure if i should be too thankful for is the new skill charlie picked up. nana and pops gave him a new cat dump truck. the bucket of the truck clicks in the back to make a "pushing" station for charlie. the first time we set him up against it he started to walk! i was like - where did that come from.

here is a video of him showing off his new skill.

loving his new toy.