Thanksgiving - November 24-25, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving!  We are grateful that we were able to spend the weekend in Idaho and enjoy the time with family.  And we're very, very grateful to have this little boy in our lives!  Lincoln - 11 weeks old

Kurt carving the turkey

Kurt and Deven in the kitchen

Little Girls Dinner Table - notice Lincoln's hand-print turkey (brown and green and kind of smudged) at the bottom of the table cloth?  Oma plans to add hand prints to this little cloth every year.


Little Boys Dinner Table - where Lincoln would be sitting (if he could sit by himself, and if he wasn't taking a nap).


Big Kids Dinner Table - Bon Apetit!


Babies are Magnetic - wherever Lincoln was, there was usually a gaggle of small children nearby to talk to him, hold him, make faces at him... Christy, Jake, Lincoln, Bree and McKayla

Lincoln and Carter - Carter would go out of his way to stop by and stroke Lincoln's head.

Lincoln and Bree - Bree thought it was funny to 'almost' be in the picture (Lincoln had an unscheduled bath - aka diaper blowout!) 

Dancing with a princess - James, Lincoln and Ellie.  Kim and Deven had Christmas music playing while they put up the Christmas tree.  One of the little girls wanted to dance with Lincoln. 

And then ALL the girls wanted to dance - James, Lincoln, Ellie, Christy, Bree and McKayla


Sneaking up on Jessi... (James, Lincoln, Christy and Carter)... I was in the bathroom doing my hair and I could hear little footsteps in the hallway.  When I looked out, I saw I had 'sneakers'. 


Sneaking again - Carter, Lincoln and James

Helping Oma sew - James and I had our first official date without Lincoln.  He stayed behind with Oma and helped her sew bags for Emma and Aspen's Christmas pajamas.

Date Night at the Movies - 3D Three Musketeers.  We enjoyed the movie, thanks Mom!


This is a 4 generation photo - Opa, Oma-Great, Lincoln and Jessi - I am so, so glad that I was able to introduce Lincoln and his Oma-Great over Thanksgiving.  She's 94 and he's 11 weeks.  I'm hoping Lincoln didn't get his "height" genes from her; but it would be great if he got the "longevity" genes!

Oma-Great and Lincoln