Thanksgiving

The Monday before Thanksgiving, Annie and I took a cookie decorating class at MCC.

While we were there we learned all about using frosting bags and tips to make the cutest decorated sugar cookies.

Annie did such a good job on her cookies. They all looked adorable and delicious!

She was really proud of her work and learned all about the best frosting and cookie recipes.

Later that week a few days before Thanksgiving, we took some 3 month pictures of Calvin. 

Here he is loving on his elephant.

Gabe's about 4 months in this picture but it was a pretty close comparison. 

I don't think they look much alike but are both pretty cute. 

Around this time, Gabe slept every night with his robot backpack full of his rescue bots. This boy was in love with rescue bots. He slept with them so they would "protect him" at night from scary things.

We went to Austin to spend Thanksgiving with Amanda and her family. As we packed our bags, Gabe made sure his rescue bots made it inside. 

Annie had so much fun decorating cookies, we decided to take some to the Porters so all the kids could take turns decorating.

Gabe helped cut out the cookies and baked them with me and was very proud of his work. 

We decided to make turkeys, leaves, pilgrim hats, pumpkins and acorns for our cookie choices.

  

The parents helped the kids do some decorating. Notice the boys with their rescue bots. Like I said, OBSESSED. 

Each kid got several cookies and Annie showed them all the best decorating tips and tricks so they could do a good job.

Sprinkles are essentially for decorating sugar cookies.

The next morning we had some yummy breakfast before prepping our big Thanksgiving dinner and also before going to see Big Hero 6 with our family at the movie. We didn't know what to expect but it was a great movie. 

Rachelle, Brandon and Pierce came to have dinner with us too! It was so nice to have friends there. It made dinner extra fun and made our house feel full.

Cal and I unintentionally matched for Thanksgiving dinner. That night we went to one of Amanda's friend's house for dessert. I made pecan bars that were a little over done but AMAZINGLY good.

The next morning Annie had her traditional turkey leg for breakfast and then we headed to a parade in downtown Austin. The weather was absolutely perfect. 

Gabe sat right by the ribbon keeping people off the streets and loved all of the floats.

There were star wars characters, a pretty good assembly of them.

Gabe's favorite was curious George.

The weather was perfect that day! It was so much fun to be together as a family and enjoy the parade.

Gabe thought the big polar bear was pretty cool.

Annie helped with Calvin who was a dream the whole time. Easiest baby. He loves being outside and with his family. 

It was such a fun weekend. We are so lucky to have family that lives near by!!