Thanksgiving in Hilton Head Day 3, 4 & 5

Friday we did more of the same. Relaxed, swim, ride bikes, enjoy the weather. But we did have some fun at the Shelter Cover Marina Christmas festival.

We rode our bikes over the bridge to the Marina, to see what all they had. They had a bounce house, train rides, and Santa! 

Michael is all ready for the train ride!

Off he goes!

Fun ride!

The line was super long to see Santa, and Michael didn't want to wait, so we left and went to get something to eat. The rest of the day was spent riding bikes and swimming, and some food thrown in. 

Saturday we headed over to the beach to fly our kite. The water was really cold, so there wouldn't be any swimming for us in the ocean. 

Love my boy!

And this boy too!

Flying the kite!

I started writing in the sand, and Michael wanted to, also. 

After the beach, we went back to the nice warm, heated pool and we were the only ones there!

I couldn't believe how empty it was!

We saw a lot of this! Him underwater and just his feet sticking out. 

Sunday morning is was time to head home. We did go spend a little time at the pool again before we had to leave. 

It was a great little vacation! Hilton Head is one of our favorites and hopefully we will be back again for spring break!

Thanksgiving in Hilton Head Day 1 & 2

This year for Thanksgiving, we decided to ditch our families and head to Hilton head Island for the week. It turned out to be a great idea! We had a wonderful time, and it was so relaxing. We stayed at Disney's Hilton head Island resort,  like we did in May.

First thing we did after checking into our room, was go get our bikes. Michael talked us into putting his training wheels back on his bike, so we did. He just isn't comfortable starting out and turning on just two wheels. He will get there, just needs some more practice.  

So we rode...

And rode...

And rode...

All over the resort! That is definetely Michael's favorite thing!

This is the view from our balcony. Through those trees is the marsh. 

On Wednesday night was a full moon and it was so big and bright! I tried getting some pictures of the moon reflecting off the water, but they all turned out blurry.

Thursday morning we woke up and had no plans! Which was really great! We watched the parade on our pajamas, then the boys got dressed and went for a bike ride all around the resort. After an hour or so, they came back to get swimsuits on so they could go to the pool. The weather was absolutely gorgeous the whole week! But yes, the pool was heated too.

Michael didn't miss a beat when it came to swimming. He was jumping in and swimming everywhere! And went on the slide too many times to count!

After swimming, it was time to go eat some Thanksgiving Lunch! We went to Stack's Pancake house and had the traditional Thanksgiving pancakes! It was great!

After lunch we drove around the island, and let Michael take a little nap in the car. 

Once back at the resort, Michael and I went to see Shadow, and ride our bikes.

I took some pictures of Michael around the resort.

And we went to the playground to play.

After playing and riding, we stopped for a Mickey Bar!

That night, we drove over to the new Shelter Cove Shopping Center to get something for dinner. 

The lights at the shopping Center were so pretty!

Well, that was day 1 and 2. I'll be back with days 3 and 4.

Thanksgiving 2013

We celebrated Thanksgiving with my family on Sunday before thanksgiving. We had great food and a great time. Mom planned some fun games for everyone and I brought the bounce house again for the kids. Everyone had a great time. And the adults liked the Thanksgiving Bingo more than the kids did! Too bad I didn't take any pictures :(

On Thursday, we got up at home, for the first time in three years. We are usually in Georgia with Andrew's family, but this year, they decided not to host the big thanksgiving. We were all a little bummed about that.

So, Andrew's mom and dad went down to Florida and spent thanksgiving with Amy and Mike. Of course, Abby and Maggie went with them.

So Andrew, Michael and I spent thanksgiving at home, and then went to eat lunch with Granny. It was a nice lunch and I'm glad we were able to do that.

When we got there, the parade was still on, so Granny and Michael watched the rest of that. 

 Then it was lunch time. 

After lunch, we headed home for naps. Andrew is the only one that actually napped. So Michael and I watched a movie.

Since we ate lunch early, we decided to go to Waffle House for dinner. It was a great ending to our Thanksgiving!

We drove around to look at all those crazy Black Friday shoppers. We couldn't believe the Walmart parking lot! It was completely full, and so was every parking lot around it. And there was a line of cars trying to get in! I was glad that I didn't go shopping. But it's not like I even considered it.

Thankful Day 18

Tonight we got together with my family to celebrate thanksgiving! Since we had 23 people there, we had to have it at my parents work. We brought the bounce house for the kids to play in.

I'm thankful for my huge family and that we could all be there together to celebrate. I'm thankful for fun times with my family and I hope and pray I cherish these moments with them. I know we won't always have this opportunity, so today I am thankful for these crazy moments with my family.

The cute place cards my mom made. 

Thanksgiving 2011

We had such a wonderful thanksgiving. We traveled with Andrew's family to Blue Ridge, GA again this year and spent 4 nights in a cabin together.

Thanksgiving day we went over to "uncle" Doug and "Aunt" Breda's house for a huge meal. There were close to 40 people there and we ate and ate and ate some more.

Friday morning, we went on the Santa Express again. Michael kinda knew what was going on, but still wasn't too excited. We saw Santa, Rudolph, and frosty the snowman. After the train ride, we ate lunch and then headed back to the cabin so Michael could take a nap. After his nap, we headed back over to spend time with the family at Doug and Brenda's.

Saturday we had an unexpected trip to get some new tires on the van. We knew we would need two new tires on the front, but didn't expect it would be so soon. So after we dropped off the van at Walmart, we went to lunch and than some shopping. After a couple hours, we went to pick up the van and headed back to spend some more time with the family.

Then we headed home on Sunday morning. It was a nice weekend spent with family and we are looking forward to doing it again next year.

Here are a ton of pictures from the weekend.

Handprint Turkey Shirt

I wanted to make Michael a cute shirt for Thanksgiving so I started looking around and found this:
http://morganmoore.typepad.com/one_more_moore/2008/11/a-turkey-for-me-and-a-turkey-for-you.html
(sorry, blogging from my phone and I can't add link.)
I wanted to do it a little different so I searched how to appliqué, and found this great post. www.Girlythingsbows.com/applique_shirt.html
I knew I could do it, so I went to Joanne's to buy all of the needed supplies. I'm not going to write down all of the steps, since she did a good job of that already.

The hardest part of this project was getting a good handprint from Michael. It required help from Andrew to hold Michael still and his hand flat, while I traced it.

I love how it turned out and I can't wait for him to wear it on Thanksgiving day.