Still a month behind

I finally looked at my most recent pictures and realized it has already been almost a month since I had taken them at Thanksgiving. I almost thought about skipping this post since it has been a while since Thanksgiving, but I actually got pictures of Beck looking at the camera, with his eyes open and no tongue hanging out. That just doesn't happen, so I had to post them.

We decided to take a road trip this year for Thanksgiving and we stayed in a cabin in Breckenridge, Colorado. We loved being able to spend Thanksgiving with Dani who lives in the Denver area and attend the baptism of our nephew Riley.

The kids had a lot of fun!

They got to play in the snow. . .

play with cousins all day long in the hot tub, playing games, watching movies. . .

and they even got creative and made a gingerbread house from one of those kits.

It was very relaxing to me also to be able to spend so much time with Eli. He has been working a lot of late nights trying to complete a product that is due to be released this Friday. He has been helping me out a lot lately too with the kids so I can go to various church activities and meetings. So on the nights he came home early I had to head out the door. I don't think I realized how much I missed him until I actually had time with him and realized how much I like having him around. I loved being able to spend a full five days with him. I realized there are a lot of little things I like about him like how cute he is when he's rocking out to his music during an eleven hour drive or how safe I felt with him driving us such a long distance. I guess He is what I was most Thankful for this Thanksgiving. Okay, enough of the mushy stuff. I hope it wasn't too sickening for anyone.

It was also relaxing because I didn't have to cook or entertain guests. Eli and Dani did almost all of the cooking and the food was very good. I think Eli felt like it was the best Turkey he's done so far. Yet another reason for me to be thankful for Eli. He is not only willing to cook, but does a great job as well.

We loved the couple time we had when we went shopping at the outlets and went to lunch Thanks to Tom's generous and thoughtful parents. We enjoyed all the time we spent with the Lillywhites and Kate and Beck now have a third set of grandparents.

We are also so proud of Riley and we glad we could be there for his baptism. Here is a little family photo from the baptism. I look awful, but I must say I am well overdue for a haircut and we were in a rush that morning to get packed up and make it to the baptism with the 2 hour drive.

It was a great start to the holidays and I am looking forward to Christmas. Kate and Beck got to go see Santa and Eli's work and help mom decorate the tree. Hopefully we will get a chance to see the lights and participate in a few more traditional Christmas celebrations before it is all over. It definitely looks like Christmas with all the snow we got with this last storm. We were 20 minutes late for church because the plows had come by and we were trapped in our driveway with three feet of ice. After the last storm the snow was already getting close to reaching the mail box, but it is melting fast after the last few days of sunshine.