Thanksgiving in a Nutshell

Thanksgiving has never been one of my favorite holidays, I'm just not a huge fan of turkey and since my parents are from England, it just wasn't a huge deal growing up. Sometimes we'd even go out to eat on Thanksgiving which was fine by me :)

But lately, I've started to like Thanksgiving more-mainly because it brings family together and it's a time to reflect on how blessed we are. This year we were lucky to have Landon's dad and brother visit us and we went to Washington to be with our family.

Some of the other highlights of the week were:

• Bringing in Christmas and putting up the Christmas tree first thing Friday morning and of course blasting Christmas music :)

• Flying to McMinville to go to the Air & Space Museum. We decided this day was "Landon's day" because it was a perfect day for him. Flying, looking at airplanes and space shuttles, and we ended the day by eating at Outback-his favorite restaurant.

this is the airplane Landon wants to build. this baby would get us to Utah in 2.5 hours!

oh I just love him :)

this was in the children's discovery area :)

• Making a gingerbread house from scratch. We made the dough, rolled it out, cut it out, and baked it. This was an all day process and took us 8 hours but it was definitely worth it. Our apartment totally smelled like Christmas too :)

We love having family in town and getting to visit with family. Only 10 more days and we'll be in Texas for Christmas. Wohoo!