So FINALLY we have the catch-up from the actual Thanksgiving holiday weekend! :) Only a few weeks late right!? Well, it really did happen but we decided not to combine it with the post last week, because we didn't want to exhaust the readership! :) ha ha!
We had the honor and pleasure of going over to the Grodacks for Thanksgiving again - it was really fun to get together with a large group and visit. It just makes the day so much more fun! The kids always have a blast playing together too. Addison was so excited all day - she kept talking about "baby Coby (Colby)" and Brady who are the youngest Grodack children.
The group pictured below starting from left to right: Corey holding Brady, Elaine holding Colby, then Aubree, Zachary, Calleigh, Braelyn, Kohlden, Evan, Blake, Kaleb, Duncan (Corey's husband), who is holding Addison (poor Duncan looked like he had adopted the Z children in addition to his crew!), and then in the back from L to R: Bruce, Ron (Elaine's husband), Jennifer, Julia (Jenn's mom), Megan, Tangie, Maddie in front of Tangie, Allen, Karis, Amy, Bobbi (Amy's mom of course), and last but not least Lolo and Lala (Allen's parents). Thanks Corey and Duncan!!
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| Under the pergola that Duncan made - how impressive! |
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| Playing a few pre-meal warm-up games! |
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| Addison and Brady enjoying some coloring time! |
After the meal, Amy and her mom headed off to the outlet mall to try and get some shopping done before the crowds hit the next day.....WRONG. Crowds everywhere! They left at midnight, and there were still people pouring in!! What is up with that?
On Friday, Amy hit a second-hand store and then dashed back home so that we could go to SeaWorld for the morning with the Johnsons and Cochrans. The weather was absolutely gorgeous, could not have asked for much better! It wasn't a long time at SeaWorld, but a lot of fun none-the-less.
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| A favorite picture spot for the Z family! |
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| The sun was a little bright....... waiting to catch-up with the Js and Cs. |
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| Dueling slides...Addison had a great time going down these with Zachary |
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| Just hanging around.... |
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| Zachary, Elin, Erik, Addison, Devin, Kieran and Kaleb |
The next night, we had the Thanksgiving group over to our house to reciprocate - it actually was supposed to be a camp-out in the original plan but it was too cold that night!! It was fun to sit outside though and let the kids play until the sun went down and then head on inside to where it was warm!
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| Parents chatting with the kids play football and ride the toys! |
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| Studied nonchalance perfectly captured! :) We eventually gave him a chair to sit on... |
The evening was filled with games, hot tub for the kids and a bit of charades. Addison decided that she really liked the pink jello, so after getting down from her high chair she went outside to the little kids' table and sat down to finish all of their food that they had been in too much of a rush to get to the hot tub to finish! See below - caught in the act!
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| Charades..... |
Once the charades were over, then the games REALLY got started. The boys loved the games so much that they have asked to play several times this week! They were basically versions of musical chairs, but with a game called "cockroach," a "dance-off," "statue", "river and the bank" and the last "telephone game."
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| Look at those moves in the dance-off! :) |
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| River and the bank....Um, pretty sure Kaleb must be out on this round as everyone's supposed to be on the same side! :) |
This next video is absolutely adorable - Addison of course thought that she was "playing" cockroach even though she of course was the loser each time as she'd be the last time to her feet but the kids were very good-natured and just let her keep playing. If you look closely, you can see that as she's wildly swinging her hands and feet in the air that she's got her tongue going back and forth from side to side as well. It was so precious!
That night when Addison finally went to bed (much past her bedtime), we thought that she'd fall asleep dead to the world but instead we heard her in the crib saying good-night to all of her friends... "Good night Coby, Good night Brady, Good night Aubree, Good night Calleigh, Good night Blakey, Good night Evie, Good night Maddie, Good night Braelyn.......every name that she could remember and pronounce, she was telling them good-night!"
Phrase of the week: Addison came walking into the room where Karis and the boys were and casually "Hello guys!" Umm....are we 16 already? Yet while her language is taking off with leaps and bounds, we like to cling to some of the ways that she says things wrong....like how she says Jennifer "Fe-fer!" Even Jennifer calls herself that now! :)
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