Thanksgiving Weekend

This Thanksgiving was a lot of first for us. The first time I had Thanksgiving not with family, the first time we hosted Thanksgiving Dinner, and the first time we cooked a turkey. Even though we missed being with our families it's sure nice to have good friends who are like our family away from family. Here are some of the highlights from the weekend:

• Making pies with friends the night before Thanksgiving
• Wii (thanks to the Madsens for providing the Wii)
• Watching the movie Elf
• Looking through all the black Friday ads
• Putting our Christmas decorations up (love how cozy it makes our house)
• Going to the cheap theater matinee (Julie & Julia) definitely worth the $1.00 we paid for it
• Swimming (indoors, of course)
• Crossroad Village (Brookylnn's first train ride, and first time meeting Santa)
• Settlers with our friends

I think that pretty much sums up our Thanksgiving weekend. Too bad Monday is tomorrow and Derek has to go to school. We love when Derek can be at home with us!

Appetizers

Thanksgiving Feast! Everyone contributed and everyone left with plenty of left overs.

The Ladies

The kids sat here just long enough for us to get the picture.

Brookie's favorite part of the day.

Brooklynn's hard at work helping with the Christmas decorations.

Crossroads Village is a cute little antique village from the early 20th century. While we were there we went for a train ride, the route was decorated with tons of christmas lights. We also saw all of the fun christmas shops, and most of all Brookylnn got to meet Santa...she was so excited about it! You'll see how excited she was by the picture below.

Classic santa picture. Brooklynn is thinking "why the heck do you want me to sit on this silly looking man". I am so glad I got this picture to document this big moment in her life...ha ha ha!

At last a pregnancy picture a few of you have requested. This was taken before Thanksgiving (28 weeks), but I am pretty sure my stomach is double the size from all the food I've eaten this weekend. I am now 29 weeks pregnant! Holy smokes, this pregnancy is flying by, I can't believe I am in my last trimester and our little girl will be here before we know it.

Zoo

A couple weeks ago we went to the zoo with some friends. It was in the mid 60's (very unusual weather) we had to take advantage of the nice weather because you never know when winter is going to come. This fall we have been lucky! Anyway, I just wanted to post a few cute pictures from that day.

Brooklynn was having so much fun with Allie on this slide.

Brooklynn and Evy in the egg. Brooklynn has her mouth wide open and tongue sticking strait out like a little bird would. Makes me laugh!

These two animals were our favorites!

Happy Halloween...

from the Bee family!!!

We dressed up for our ward halloween party. Derek was a good sport and went a long with it (and I think he even liked it). We definitely stood out in our bright yellow and we were finalist in the costume contest!

Our Bubble Bee

My friend Shana let us borrow this adorable bee costume for Brooklynn. It was nice not having to spend a dime and Brookie looked so stinkin' cute!

Trying to take a picture with Brooklynn and some of her little friends. They wanted to play ring a round the rosey instead.

Is it really November 1st? October sure flew by with Halloween festivities. We went to a few neighbors and let Brooklynn trick or treat. She caught on really fast and didn't want to stop. Luckily, I think she has forgotten about the candy (which means more candy for me and Derek). I hope everyone had an awesome Halloween!