It was a quiet Thanksgiving at our house this year. Just us because of Covid and the stay home order. One nice thing about having a bigger family is that we have critical mass even when it’s just us though. The day was pretty relaxing and low-key.

New tradition: pumpkin pie for breakfast

Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Zoom with the Avery’s

We had a concert and all six cousins played music for us

Opening up their Christmas jammies

This turned out to be a mistake. Turkey didn’t agree with her.

More Zoom pics

One non-rainy day in November we loaded up the kids and the dog and took some quick family pics. It was pretty sunny out and the kids were not on their best behavior, but we got a few good ones!

Avery hates his long pandemic hair in this photo, but I think it looks so cute!

Layla hated how scratchy this dress was. It sure looked adorable though.

Smitten!

School pics! Avery has a few raindrops on his shirt from the dash from our car to the school gym for photos. Kieron and Silas’ pics were taken out front on a sunny day and the transitional lenses on their glasses turned, hence no glasses. I think they all turned out cute!

Layla’s friend, Georgia, turned five in November and threw a party for a few of her closest friends at the ranch where Kieron rides. We lucked out and had pretty good weather. The girls had so much fun and it was amazing seeing the four of them all riding those big horses. Layla even got to ride Flash, the horse her brother normally rides.

Clare, Layla, Georgia & Britton

We took the kids back to Fall City Farms to pick out pumpkins. It was a slightly different experience Covid-style. When we arrived we realized we were supposed to have an appointment but it didn’t end up mattering because they had openings so we got in fine. There were no fresh donuts, but they did have some prepackaged, so the kids weren’t disappointed. We wore our masks, social distanced, and picked out some pumpkins.


 

The Club has an annual swimming for pumpkins event. They crank up the heat in the pool and let the kids jump in and pick out free pumpkins then warm up with hot cocoa. They loved it!

Time to carve:

Between the pandemic and election stress we decided to put our tree up pretty early in November. Here are a few pics of us getting in the Christmas spirit.

Opening their Christmas ornaments

Earmuffs from Grammy

The family room tree

Phoebe barely squeezed into Commodus’ old Santa suit for a photo op. We passed it on to her friend, Honey Lott, who is a bit slimmer and fits into it better. I’m sure she really appreciated it.

Modeling her cute snowman outfit