Soooo....since we got to see most of you over the Thanksgiving holiday I'll just post the pictures that I took and won't get bogged down in all the writing. My Christmas preparation 'to do' list is really long right now so I need to get on with that!! BUT....wanted to say a big thanks to all the Grandparents for the hospitality and fantastic food. It was so nice to have everyone together. And thanks to the Knowles family for making the trip. We loved seeing Carter and Maddox interact together. They are definitely going to grow up buddies...and Kennon will be in the mix next year. We did manage to make it to the Family Museum in Bettendorf with the Knowles family. Most of the pictures of Carter and Maddox are from that adventure. I think they both had a good time. The Christmas tree photos are from yesterday ( Saturday). Eric, Kennon, Maddox and I headed out to our usual tree farm on the west side of Davenport to cut down a tree. We got pretty ambitious this year and picked out a beauty....a 9 footer!! ( it actually took longer to get it secured to the RAV than it did to pick it out....our first year actually putting it on the top of the RAV instead of shoving it inside....we figured we didn't want the kids to get their eyes poked out sitting in the backseat with a huge tree...sounds like something the Griswalds would have tried to do :) This is the biggest tree we've ever had. We decorated it last night and it is so pretty. I think I'm hooked on big trees now. This year with all the additional toys we have out in the living room we opted to put the tree in the den in the front window so everyone can see it from the street. It looks really nice. Maddox put the finishing touches on it this morning when she put on her own 'Maddox' ornaments. We are looking forward to a great holiday season. Thanks again for everything over the Thanksgiving week. Can't believe Kennon turned 6 months old on Friday. We are having one of our neighbors come over this afternoon to take our family Christmas card picture and Kennon's 6 month photos. Hopefully I"ll have some good shots to share with you later. On to uploading......oh by the way, I've been trying for the longest time to get video of Maddox singing. She sings all the time but of course when I have the camera running she doesn't 'perform'. I'll keep trying. My favorite is the 'Itsy Bitsy Spider'. She doesn't really say the SUN came out and dried up all the rain she says the SONE came out and it is just priceless!!
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