What a wonderful Thanksgiving!! :) We had a total of 9 adults and 5 kids over to our house for our Thanksgiving meal. It was so much fun, and we are so thankful.
I LOVE this. My mom (Emmy) and Walker.
Lainey and Ella
Emmy and Lainey
Cally and Allyson
making "Corkers" - animals out of wine corks
(The Container Store sells the kits to make these animals!)
Walker took some pictures of the girls. I'm not sure that I kept any of them.
the girls with their great grandfather, James :)
On Friday, we went to the Arboretum Children's Garden.
atop a giant ant
Cousin Tom and his dad, Brian, joined us!
Posing. For a change.
making tornadoes
Tom, cranking the water wheel. I'm sure it's called something else, but for now, I'm calling it a water wheel.
The water is pushed up (by cranking the water wheel) and collected into a bucket...which, when full, dumps into a giant tank.
waiting for the bucket of water to tip over
In the wind tunnel...Walker chose not to participate.
Aaannnddd...done. :) Time to head home.
Over the break, the kids also played with my beloved "glassies" (glass animal figurines) from when I was a child. You can imagine how this turned out.
Surgery for the glassies. Many needed some serious glue repair.
And finally, one of the BEST things about living across the street from our elementary school is being able to use it like a (slightly less intense) skate park on holidays and weekends. It's the best!
*****
I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving break! Now I need to get moving on Christmas...! :)
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