Thanksgiving and a Christmas Kick off!

we have had a good holiday season so far. We

started it out with "pie day" all wednesday, and

sweet nicole let us tear apart her house (and some

of her appliances, but it was nice to be one with the

pioneers.) And it was our year with the "petersen" side..

along with everyone else's.

so we had quite the crowd to celebrate

with. we had a yummy thanksgiving dinner,

accompanied with football and ad searching. Then

Lexi had her first sleepover, so that cody and i could

go shopping at 5 am. i kept warning him that he didn't

want to come (for both of our sakes) since he

doesn't even like normal shopping, let alone black

friday shopping. But he was awesome! i had to have had

the best hubby out there. he was so good at grabbing

anything i pointed out, when i told him i needed a

size he would grab every boot in that size throughout

the store to see which i would prefer, and any toy

we wanted for lexi he was grabbing anything similar

to it. I got myself a new shopping partner WOO WOO!

and later that day we had the petersen christmas party,

since jen's family wouldn't be back out til after christmas.

santa even came to put the fear into all the toddlers, and

joy to the rest of the kids... the pictures are all

out of order, and i'm not organizing them, so enjoy!

this is lexi new favorite place to play.. nana's pantry's.

If you see her in one, you should run because she

will beg anyone to go in with her and assign seats to

whoever obeyed, and then she does not let you leave.

she found bumpa's head light, and also

found that the faster she ran to chase that

wierd red light on the wall, the faster the

red light on the wall moved... crazy!

santa really put the fear in lexi.. she must have really

been naughtier than even we thought if she was so scared.

and he gave issy quite a bit to think about

cole just wanted "CARS" and made that

pretty clear since thats all he would say to him

our newly adopted kiwi has nothing to be

worried about, she'll always be on the nice list

looks like someone really can scare brookie, who knew!?

jackson wasn't really scared, jacque just really wanted

to sit on santa's lap!

And ayla hated to even look at santa, it was quite

devastating.

Andy whispering all his wishes

Nana pulled out the bells ...apparently it wasn't loud

enough already

lexi loves playing with her bumpa! and maddy couldn't

miss the photo op once she saw the camera out! :)

The little girls sharing thanksgiving dinner.

Cody and brookie just watching some football.