Saturday, November 28, 2009

{Thanksgiving 2009}

For Thanksgiving this year we drove to Ohio to visit the Tranchell's. It. Was. Awesome. The Tranchell hotel never disappoints. We had GREAT food and fun, fun, fun!! There was movie watching (New Moon and now I {HEART} Jacob....Ahhh), awesome Black Friday shopping (starting at midnight..yes we're crazy), Christmas card pictures (an adventure in itself), and cooking, cooking, cooking, and did I mention cooking?!! Who knew that Thanksgiving was so much work. Tiff is amazing. I couldn't keep up. Our dinner was awesome and we even ate on fancy china! We can't wait for next year. Anyone know a good caterer?


The boys watched some movies while we cooked. Sophie was pretty worn out as you can see.

Here's a sneak peek of our family pictures...complete with Jonas eating an Oreo for bribery. Yes, we have a problem.

Devin entertaining all the kiddos with Handy Manny.

"The Ball Drop" Ok so Livy and Sophie have like 1 million bouncy balls and I got a great idea to dump them down the stairs. It was hilarious. We must have done it 50 times. Then I curled up in a ball at the bottom and let them hit me. It was even better. Maybe you just had to be there.

Every night there were three little munchkins in a tub. There was a lot of splishin' and splashin'


The Feast. Check out that pie on the right. Carmel Apple Crunch. Delightful.

The Guests, minus Tiff, the picture taker.

Fine China, and fancy napkins.

My name card. Olivia even made one for JoJo. She was so excited that she could spell JoJo.

I made my first cranberry sauce ever. No one ate it. Oh well. I tried.

Thanks again for a great weekend. It was so so so much fun. We love you all.
P.S. My Good Deed was updating my blog.
My Happy Moment was when I dressed to match Tiff :)

5 comments:

Tranchell Family said...

By the way, I totally ate the cranberry sauce! It was belicious!!! We had a blast while you were here and can't wait for the next visit. By the way, I will call and tell you what shirt I am wearing. (shhhhhhhhh, they match!) Love ya

The Holmgrens said...

Nicole...I just love you! Why do you have to live far away? I really think I would be hanging out with you if it wasn't for the darn distance! So I laughed at your Jacob comment, because I made one on my blog too! He is scrumptious! Sounds like you have a wonderful Thanskgiving.

Lindsay said...

I can totally picture the bouncing ball incident. How fun are you? A LOT of fun! Glad you got to have a yummy time with all that pie.

Ashlee said...

Nicole,
I love to read your posts and think about you actually saying it. It makes me laugh. Glad you had a great Thanksgiving!! Hope you have a great Christmas with your fam. PS Jonas is so so cute!

Josh and Steph said...

Yay, thanks for inviting me to your blog!
Your little family is sooo cute.
It looks like you guys had a fun Thanksgiving!