Thanksgiving 2010

This was our Thanksgiving at the Cox's this year.  The children made cute Turkeys and names for the table.  Brittany did such a great job on hers.  Morgan, Zach, Katie and Jessica made the rest.  I think mine was made my Morgan.  I am surprised it only has two eyes because she loved gluing on the eyes.  We had a delicious tummy busting dinner.  To start it off we each had 5 Indian corn kernels on our plates.  Dad read a story about them and then we each said something we were thankful for for each of the five kernels.  Some of us were, "I thank you for"  but all in all we were thankful for a lot of things and it is always good reflect on the many, many wonderful things we have in life.

  Sara stopped by later to visit and then she and Trevor went to see Bobby and Julee's Clark who was born at 5:04 p.m., yep one more thing to be thankful this day. 

This is me at 5:58 a.m. on Friday morning getting ready to leave the house for a day full of shopping, being that it was black friday one of the biggest shopping days of the year.  I love this day and this tradition.  This year it was my mom, myself, my sister-in-law Cathy and my niece, Brittany.  (same as last year)

I don't think I have laughed as hard at a Thanksgiving weekend before.  I learned things about my family I may need counseling over. :)  We did a football pole for all of the college games that weekend and Dad won... but we all got prizes.  Brittany got the flue and she nicely shared with her Dad but they were all better before driving home and let me tell you everyone in the car was grateful.  I learned a few new signs, got a few more laughing wrinkles and had to leave early on Sunday due to roads but - I would do it all over again to have such a wonderful weekend. 
Just wish there was more time to visit with our Irish fam. It is hard when they are with family on the other side... At the blessing of Clark we are Irish timing it all weekend. 

Snow much fun!

 

meet Bob, our snowman.

watching out the window

no mercy

White wash time.

The biggest snow ball of the day.

It was the first snow of the season and it was the perfect time for playing.  They, Trevor, Katie, Zach and Morgan, played out in the snow or well over an hour.  They built a snowman, had white washes, threw snowballs at each other and simple enjoyed all of the wonderful fluffy perfectly wet white snow.  There is something about playing in the snow that makes you smile, the cold of the weather disappears and laughter just comes out of the mouth...  oh to snow, the fun and the love.

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Jason's first playtime in the snow

...was short lived.  Getting him dresssed took longer than did his playtime.  I took him inside to watch through the boys bedroom window as the others outside and he loved that.  Maybe next year he will enjoy it more.

Jason smiles

When I was taking the pictures of the other children in their clogging outfits Jason had to have his picture taken too and this is the ham he is.  I point the camera at him and normally get a smile, which is a very nice quality for a mom who seems to always be taking pictures.

Clogging in December

 Here are our super cloggers.  Katie and Zach perform in the same group and they both do very well.  Morgan goes to dance class but didn't ever perform on stage, she just stood by me and cried both times until she was for sure I wouldn't make her dance.  I never got a picture of them actually performing because I was managing Morgan and, well mostly, Jason. Zach's pants are suit pants that match his vest, he looked sharp.

smiles,

Jennifer

Just for fun

 

 This is the fun we had in the kitchen the night I made these delicious, and I mean, delicious pumpkin cupcakes with vanilla cream cheese frosting. They were sprinkled with a pinch of nutmeg and a candy corn.  Super cute, super yummy, and a great hit at our Relief Society Mtg.