Happy Thanksgiving

We had a lovely Thanksgiving holiday with my family. My sister and her fiancee perpared the meal this year and so we headed down for a short visit. I didn't get that many photos and I certainly look forward to whe we have holidays with a lot more kids running around spicing up the event.

Sitting down to a butternut squash soup.

Nice Jen!

Jaydon LOVED the cranberries! He didn't really care for anything else though 'suffered' through some bread and turkey as long as there were cranberries on it too! Here he decided to just take the whole bowl for himself.

The feast!

A pear tart to go with the pumpkin-ginger cheesecake for dessert, it was lovely and delicious.

Fowl Fun Run

A long standing family tradition is to run in the annual Fowl Fun Run (we always called it the Turkey Trot). When I was a kid I won the spring chicken award (for being the youngest to complete the race on my own) the same year my grandma won the 'spring' chicken award (for being the oldest to complete the race). In years past we have had large family gatherings and so this was a small year to just have four of us but still a lot of fun. The race is 2 miles and Jaydon did a great job doing it on his own for a little over a mile. He then got too tired, and boy was it cold and windy, and so Dad carried him the rest of the way. Of course he was still able to run across the finish line on his own. I do acknowledge to being a competitive person so it was a bit hard to be dead last in the two mile race at just over 50 minutes but it was well worth it to be a part of Jaydon's accomplishment.

Grandma, Dad and Jaydon at the start of the race.

And he is running!

Still running (and this was a little ways into the race)!


One of the best parts of the turkey trot has always been eating pumpkin pie afterward! It was great and Jaydon and I thuroughly enjoyed ourselves.

Drinking some hot cider, another tradition.

Wearing the turkey hat, part of the 10k race is to see if people can beat the turkey with a five minute head start. Sad to report that we did not even beat the turkey doing the 2 mile versus the 10k but Jaydon really enjoyed seeing the turkey out there running.

Jaydon with Higgins

Jaydon truly loves the cats but he sure makes their lives hard at times. He has started flopping over on Higgins and squishing him with loves. Higgins endures it for awhile and then runs off but never far enough.

Jaydon decided to join Higgins under the stools. It was humorous to watch him climb under and in and then as soon as he got settled Higgins just left, poor kid.

It's a GIRL!!

Our new baby girl looks healthy and was moving around a ton during the ultrasound. No surprise, she has been kicking me like crazy for the past week or so and at this point seems even more mobile then Jaydon was (which may just be because I can feel her earlier). Everything was just fine and we hope to welcome her into the world around the 25th of March. Of course part of me is okay if she wanted to arrive after Aunties wedding on the 31st of March!

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Alien Baby

A foot

I chose to put the same three pics we had for Jaydon's ultrasound. I still don't know how to link a previous post here but if you looked at our early posts from April of 2009 you could compare these photos with Jaydon's. (and if anyone knows how to link another page here, feel free to let me know).

Oh and check back because I do still have a couple weeks of posts to catch up that will be an older date than this one so you might have to scroll a bit to find them. Hopefully by the end of the week we will be fully updated again!