Thanksgiving 2011

So this year Thanksgiving started early... 740am with the Annual Human Race Run.  We've never done it before but my dad's work was willing to support the "cause" so my family decided to all participate this year.  It was so much fun - I really think it was a good way to start off the day - if the weather is nice other years, I'd love to keep doing it!  Our little kiddos did so great too - although they really wanted to get out of the stroller, they did great considering they were stuck in the stroller for 3 miles :)  My dad's work gave us these awesome hats as well - full turkeys and headband turkey legs - so funny!  Austin wore his the whole time - what a cutie!  Jax and cousin Luke weren't having any part of it though - my nephew Luke told his parents "NEVER!!!" when he saw what he could wear - silly boy.

 After the race, we came back and did the usual day time stuff here and then we went and visited Spence's family at his parents house for awhile and then went and ate at my parents.  Everything was DELICIOUS as always.  Thanks mom and dad - you're the best!  This pic below is my family's annual tradition of "Thanksgiving Bingo" - my parents get a bunch of little gifts to win and the kids love it!!! We usually play too but this year, it wasn't happening... too long of a day and too much candy and they were not going to sit happily at the table :)

 So... we went downstairs at my parents and played with most of the kiddos - my dad was very sweet and took turns swinging my kids around and around - one of Rio's favorite things these days - what a cute grandpa!

 Here was the kids attempt at playing "Thanksgiving Bingo" - they looked at their cards and ate all their candy and well... they were done!

 Family Pic this year - one day... one day they'll all be looking :)

And then... I did something I've never done before - BLACK FRIDAY!!!! Full cart below!!!! I didn't really intend to initially but it turned into that for sure - my cute triplet mama friends Marci and Roxy.  We ended up at Target and got all our kiddos shopped for - WOO-HOO!!!  Marci has another little girl too besides her triplets so we got 10 kids done in about 3 hours - so much fun!  We didn't go until early Saturday morning like around 630 so it wasn't too crazy at that time.  What a blast though - my cute friends are so fun and we got some awesome deals too!