Thanksgiving 2013

I am a huge slacker at taking pictures when there is a lot of food to captivate my attention, so I only managed to snap a few shots during our Thanksgiving festivities. These were taken at my Dad's. I cannot believe how big our boy is getting!

Cousins! This is cousin Jaxx. He is about five months younger than Lawson, but they are pretty close to the same size. He's such a sweet little boy! As you can see, Jaxx wanted to hug on Jason, and Lawson didn't quite know what to think of it.

Lawson also has another cousin, Destini, who is only four months younger than he is. She's such a sweet, pretty little thing! It's hard to believe that two years ago at Thanksgiving these three weren't even here yet.I love that they are all so close in age. It will just make the holidays that much better! In this picture with us is my Uncle Dave (Destini's Grandpa) and my Grandma (Gram). Gram is 80 and just loves all her grand kids and great-grand kids. I'm working on a separate post about Gram. Stay tuned for that.

The day after Thanksgiving Carla and I and our moms headed to Rogers for our annual P.F. Chang lunch. We usually go the day after Christmas, but Carla has two weddings to work on the day after Christmas (crazy!). We had all eaten a lot of turkey, so we loved having something different. It's such a fun day to get away and just have a little fun!



My sweet friend Heidi was in from Colorado with her precious kiddos and her hubby the week of Thanksgiving. Heidi and I met when she came to visit UA Fort Smith for a campus tour. The tour lasted two hours, but our friendship is one that will last a lifetime. Since it's been a while since Heidi has been on campus, we took a little campus tour (yes, this is what we chose to do with our time together) and then had a leisurely lunch. It's always so nice to catch up with her and just share our lives. She and her kiddos came out to play with Lawson the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and we had such a great time. The kids had such a great time playing. It was a beautiful day, so they ran and played in the back yard. I just love that we can get our kids together to make friends. They may live many hours away, but hopefully these kids will always be a part of each other's lives. Perhaps we will make a trip to see them soon.

Keaton and Kelsey are such precious kids! Look at those sweet faces!

Lastly, here's a picture of the turkey I made for our door. My sweet friend Shanna found this on Pinterest (because that's where you find everything). Jason was kind enough to cut them out for us, and this is how mine turned out after I painted it and made a burlap bow. I think it turned out pretty cute!