Thanksgiving Pt.2 + Grandparents Weekend

This weekend marked the last of our Thanksgiving celebrations. My parents came up from South Florida and spent the weekend. We also decided to celebrate Mo's birthday. It's not until December 22nd, but we wanted him to have a real birthday experience and not feel either jipped or overwhelmed. So, my parents brought him up his birthday present: a new bike. He was retardedly happy and took off like a rocket! My mom brought up hats and gloves she'd made for the boys and they were in heaven! Their little hands have been SO COLD these past few weeks! We also went and got a Christmas tree and spent the day decorating it. What fun for the boys! Their first Christmas! I wanted to get pics of Mo picking out his first ever Christmas tree, but I had taken my mom's cam since it fit in my purse and failed to realize that my SDHC card wouldn't work in an regular digital SD camera. Grrrr! So, no pics. Anyway, plenty of pics of the decorating and such...so enjoy!!

Thanksgiving

Bear with me here cause this is gonna be a long post! Since our family all had different scheduled this year, we had to actually postpone Thanksgiving until Saturday. My sister and her family and my grandparents came over and spent the day.
First, there were shenanigans:



Then, of course, there was football:

I got it!!!

Come on, son, you can do it!

As my grandpa said, "Look at the wing on that chicken!"

This is his Huisman pose! :0)

Grandma calling out plays.

Finally, the bird was finished and it was time for FOOD! Get to carving!

Grandpa got caught cheatin the pot and stealing some stuffing!

Let's give thanks....Yes, that's my chair on the end. The photographer never gets IN the picture.

Finally, sweet bonding with the great-grandparents before everyone passes out from tryptophan overload!

Tonia figured out that everyone passed out and left HER to do the dishes! Payback for YEARS of her doing the same thing to us!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Best part of the Macy's Parade?

Boys bein boys

Caught the boys wrestling....

Have I mentioned that I <3 this kid's laugh?

Portrait of (2) 13 year olds! cn u c it?

Cai-ism Pics

Since a picture is worth a thousand Cai-isms.....BEHOLD! The Cai:

And say hello to his little friend!

Pics of Boys

Took pics of Moise and Phoenix this morning just cause it was cold and they were cute. I love the last one cause it looks like such a "superhero" shot! Please to enjoy:

Dred Update

we've been waxing and have kept them banded for a week. took he bannds out this morning and they are beautiful, tight little twists all over his head! he's very happy with how it looks. as long as he keeps twisting them whenever he's bored and we re-wax once a week, we should have beautiful "wyclef hair" soon!

This Morning....

Cai hugged me, pulled back and looked at me and said, "I smell love in my nose."
;0) hehehehe!