Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend this year with get togethers on both sides of the family.  We had the Krumm side over to our house on Thanksgiving Day which is always a good time.  Then on Friday we headed to Freemont, Nebraska to visit with Dave's Mom and sister Amy and her family.  The 7 hour car ride went amazingly well considering we haven't done a road trip in quite awhile with the kids and we had great weather.  It was wonderful to catch up with them and get a chance to visit with Grandma Mansell now that she is in Nebraska.

Here is our attempt at a family photo on Thanksgiving, yes it was a self-timer picture!

 The clan hanging out on Thanksgiving looking at ads and planning out the Black Friday strategy.

 Aunt Amy is a clown and made these great balloon animals for the kids Friday night.

 Saturday morning that same amazing Aunt Amy wowed us all with her pancake creations!

 Lucy's butterfly pancake, they were almost too pretty to eat!

 We headed to the zoo Saturday in Omaha.  It was a really nice zoo, here is Lucy and Alyvia hanging out in the jungle.

 The  penguins.

 Our family by the aquarium.

 A jellyfish.

 Grace and Lucy by the Gorillas.

 Grace and Grandma Mansell at breakfast.

Lucy and Grandma Mansell.

We had a great time with all of our family this Thanksgiving weekend and were reminded how lucky we are to have such great people in our lives.  Thank you for all of the wonderful hospitality this weekend Amy, Mike, Ryan, Sarah, Megan, Kyle, Alyvia, Adrian, and Tenley!  You HAVE to come see us now!

Halloween Group shots.....

So I promised a group shot and found a couple others also......

Grace with Ella the lion!

 I think next year we will be too big for the bench!  Tommy was sleeping during the photo and the hard concrete made his mommies nervous =)

Here is Lucy holding Breck!  He was woken up by his crazy cousins coming over to trick or treat!

Halloween Continued.....

We had a great time on Wednesday trick or treating.  The girls had a parade at their school in the afternoon and after that we headed to New Richmond to meet up with our cousins and do some trick or treating.

 Lucy as Supergirl in the parade.

 Grace with her classmates.

 The kids heading down main street in New Richmond.

 This was one of the kids favorite houses once they got over being scared.  Once they got brave enough to tell the man trick or treat, he really loaded up their buckets!

 Grace standing by the man in the coffin.

 Lauren, Ella and Lucy standing in front of some of the scary decorations.

Grace holding Tommy.  That cow costume has seen a lot of Halloweens, Lucy was the first to wear it!

We had a great time with everyone.  There are some group photos too but not on my camera so we will have to post one of those once we get our hands on a copy.  Happy Halloween!