Thanksgiving 2010

Thankgiving 2010 was at the Wakens house this year. We had a large group over and had a really good time. My job for the day was to set the table. Phill and Amanda and Aunt Jody did all the cooking. David Haley came into town and spent the holiday with us. Lets see we had our family, Phill, Diane, Phillip & Avery( Jenny had to work we missed you Jenny), Amanda, Megan and Brandon and Caleb, Connie, then the Lee family Paul, Jody, Sarah & Justin, Lindsey and David Haley. That is quite a nice group. After dinner we went over to Grandma and Grandpa Wakens house to visit. We have had a wonderful year with much to be Thankful for especially Family.

Phill carving his Turkey

We had so many people we had to set up 2 tables, one in the Living Room and one in the Kitchen. The kids were all fighting to eat in the kitchen. Go figure.

Lindsey, Connie, Sarah, Justin got to eat in the Kitchen.

The rest of us had to eat in the Living Room

Visiting at Grandpa and Grandma Wakens House.

Halloween

Halloween this year was fun at our house. We carved Sesame Street pumpkins, which you will see below. I think they are really cute. We also had Trunk or Treat at church. Just as we started dinner the electricity went off and was out for about 20 minutes. It finally came back on and we had a really fun evening. Lots of good food, visiting and friends. I put lots of pictures below.

Our Sesame Street Pumpkins.

Grandma and Avery

Amanda

The group at Church

Avery

Brandon and Megan

Our Family

Avery and Amanda

Amanda and Avery playing Basketball
Phillip, Jenny and Avery Trick or Treating

Grandma and Avery, trick or treating

Grandpa and Avery

Grandpa just loves Avery and loves when she spends time with him. Here are some pictures of them playing on the computer.

Camping at Chatfield

For our last camping trip of the year, we decided we wanted to go to Chatfield for the weekend. It is close and has really nice full hookup campground. Phill and Jenny called and ask if we could keep Avery over the weekend because Jenny had to work and Phill had a scout campout. We told them we were going camping but Avery was welcome to come with us. So off we went camping with Avery. Phill and Diane and Avery left early afternoon to set up camp and then the girls came up that evening after work. Also Jody and Paul and their girls came up to camp with. On Saturday evening Mike and Brie and their boys showed up to suprise us and visited for awhile. Mostly we sat around and watched Avery play, we did find a really nice playground that we went to twice. We walked down to the lake and wadded and looked at the boats. All in all it was a wonderful weekend. Here are some pictures.

Our Camp Spot.

Avery wanted to sit in my chair.

She finally made it.

With my camera

Our view of the lake from camp.

Avery and Grandma

At the playground with Amanda

Megan and Paul

Our Family

Uncle Paul

Amanda

Aunt Jodie, Diane, Connie

In our trailer relaxing, Zander, Brie, Logan, Jodie.

Now it is time to winterwize the trailer and dream of where we will camp next year.

Slumber Party

Last weekend Phill and I went over to visit Phillip, Jenny and Avery. When it was time to go home we decided it would be fun to take Avery with us for a sleepover. Her parents quickly agreed that we could and that way they could sleep in. So off we went to our house. We love to have Avery over to spend time with us. After getting her bath from Grandpa it was off to bed. She is a good sleeper and went to bed about 9:30 and woke up around 7:30. Grandpa brought her in and put her in bed with me. So we had fun playing. Here are some pictures of her.

After awhile it was time to get up, here are some pictures of our Hurricane Avery (we affectionately call her, because she can take a clean house and within minutes it looks like this).

She loves to read books, and the peek-a-boo ones are her favorite.