Saturday, November 29, 2008

Thanksgiving Festivities

We had such a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday this year! It was so much fun sharing all of our family traditions with Ella Grace for the first time, and making memories that will last a lifetime. She enjoyed every minute of being with family as well as trying some of the yummy food as well. :) She really liked mashed potatoes, "green stuff", and her favorite was pumpkin pie!


We had Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday at my sister's house with my mom's side of the family. The table decor was so festive and the food was delicious!


Ella has been trying to walk with her push toy for the past week or so. She is able to take a few steps and then bottoms out. Usually it's because she gets distracted by a toy she wants to pick up.

On Friday morning we loaded up the car and headed east to my aunt's house. My dad and step-mom came in from Louisiana to celebrate Thanksgiving with his side of the family, so we spent the night on Friday night and enjoyed another turkey dinner today. My dad has not seen Ella since June when she was 3 months old and others in the family met her for the first time today. She was such a sweetheart all weekend and played and played with everyone.

Ella, MeMe, Caysie, and Dad

Playing Peek-a-Boo with MeMe after dinner.

Aunt Mel and Ella Bella
Playing a game of Scrabble with the fam.
I love this picture of Ella and her daddy. This is one of her favorite places to nap. :)MeMe and Ella after her nap.
We stopped to eat on the way to my aunt's house, and Ella decided she wanted to try a lemon! I let her have a little taste just to see what she would do...

After tasting the lemon...she actually liked it! :)

2 comments:

The Barner Bunch said...

Hey...I'm a Scrabble girl. I love getting together with family and playing games! It's the best!!!!
Glad you enjoyed the holiday.
Let's go see Santa soon!

Julie and Jeff said...

Chloe has that same walker. :) she sits at it and spins the spinners. She is pulling up on everything, I don't remember landyn doing all of this so fast.!