Happy Thanksgiving!

We had an awesome Thanksgiving. Our friends came over around lunch and we had one the best Thanksgiving feast I have had in a long time. Then everyone stayed and hung out till late tonight. We even watched the movie Elf to start off the Christmas season! We have so much to be thankful for this year. Two precious blessings and one on the way plus so many other things that are too many to list. So glad that we have friends here to celebrate with since we can't be with our families.

Our crew!

Train rides and other things.

I realized that my last couple of posts have been about sickness so I plan to write one more post about sickness and then move on with another topic. Since my last post Kayleigh has thrown up again! Really?! I am starting to expect to clean up throw up once a week now. John and I are starting to think that it might be a food allergy and not just virus after virus. We are going to make a food diary to figure this whole thing out. I am praying that she will not get sick this week because I am hosting a ton of people at my house on Thursday for Thanksgiving.

While I was sick a couple of weeks ago Kayleigh and Zeb spent the afternoon riding the train. Their little friend Brennen had a success party for potty training and invited them to come along. I wish I could have been there to see Zeb's reaction. We haven't ridden the train since he was little. He loves trains now and talks about them often. John said that he had the most fun playing with the rocks in the train yard while they waited on the train to arrive. Looking at these pictures I am reminded of the warm weather. We have been freezing this past week but it is looking like we might have a nice warm Thanksgiving.

If you look closely you can see the drool coming out of Zeb's mouth. Maybe it was due to pure excitement!

Brennen the guest of honor.

Thanksgiving Day

For Thanksgiving day we went to the Shelley's house to celebrate. We had a huge feast that included things like green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, broccoli casserole, mac-n-cheese and rolls. Can you tell that casserole was a theme to our Thanksgiving feast? We had Laura and Matt and her parents over for Thanksgiving as well. Kayleigh was so excited to have her friend Julianna there to play with.

This is the dessert spread.

Kayleigh with Julianna's baby doll. They continued to put her down for a nap and told us not to go in the room where she was sleeping.

Here Kayleigh, Julianna, and I are trying to do a craft. The key word here is "try" it took a lot of us to figure out how to put this little house together.

Here is the whole crowd minus Zeb. He was sleeping. He always seems to miss out on getting his picture taken. I'm sad we don't have any pictures of him on this day.

Thanksgiving Bounty

This is our fourth Thanksgiving in East Asia and I think it was the best food we have had in those years. As you can see we had about 14 dishes made by 6 people. Kayleigh enjoyed the people much more than the actual food which again gave mom a huge headache! But she endured Kayleigh's fast and eventually had a great time. We have a tremendous amount to be thankful for. Thanks be to God who gives us everything we have, especially great food in a land that does not serve Western Food.