Thanksgiving!

To say that we were ready for a break from school is an understatement. ALL of us were ready for some time off and thankfully the kids were out all week! I still had BSF leadership meeting and class but that was all that was on the to-do-list!

On Monday Craig took Christian to meet Grandpa Billy for their great "hunting" week! Christian was really excited..I don't know if it was to hunt or if it was simply that he was excited to be away from his brothers for a couple of days! Needless to say (and really not to our surprise) he really wasn't that in to hunting!! The other two boys enjoyed playing outside with their friends and having one less person to "share" with. It is always amazing to me the difference in the noise level of just having one gone. It was really quite!!

On Wednesday after my Bible study, we loaded up and drove to Grandpa Billy's. The traffic was a little heavy but we made good time in getting there. The boys immediately jumped on the "gators" and raced off! Grandpa Billy's is a boys heaven! We then went fishing. Christian caught the first catfish and then I caught 4. Unfortunately no one else caught any. When I caught the last one Joel was the only one fishing. I felt bad for him because he was being so patient and so when I hooked it I asked him if he wanted to reel it in. He of course said yes and said can it be mine! So we took his picture with it!

Thanksgiving morning we got up early and waited for the rest of the 44 people to arrive! There was a total of 53 people at Thanksgiving. The boys had a great time playing with all of the cousins and Craig and I enjoyed catching up with his family.

We had to come home Thanksgiving night so that Craig could work on Friday night. But we still had a great time.

Joel's class did a Thanksgiving play called Arthur's Thanksgiving. Here is the link to his class blog. If you want to just hear him you can fast forward it to his part 1:30-3:01. He is one of the narrator in Scene 2. The blog address is www.robertson1stgrade.blogspot.com.

We have a busy week this week. We are back into 6:30 am basketball practice! Christian has his Christmas Band Concert Thursday night and then he is having some boys spend the night for his birthday on Friday night. I can't believe he will be 13 on Sunday!