Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We got together with Julie/Sterling/cousins and had a lovely meal. Julie sure can cook! Of course we were missing many of our extended family and hope that everyone had a nice holiday. The day was filled with the usual viewing of the parade and football games, dinner, then games for the grown-ups (Wyatt and I beat the pants off Julie and Sterling in couples Pictionary). Rachel and James are starting to really enjoy the company of their cousins- in fact, Rachel is infatuated with Iris who seems like such a big girl to her although they are the same size. Rachel came home copying how Iris says, "so" to describe things. For instance, the next day she told me, "James is SO silly." It sounded like little Iris had come over for a visit. James started exclaming "AH MAN!" the way that Carmen does. Maybe we need to hang out with the cousins more often and to get the twins talking better! Now only if potty-training would rub off...

On Saturday, the family went to pick out a tree. We were really missing the tradition of going out to the farm with all the Durstelers to pick out our trees. In Californina, Target is the best we can do. Anyways, we turned on the Christmas music, passed out the Santa hats to decorate. The kids thought that this was great fun and got into the Christmas Spirit. Just wait until they understand that presents go under the tree. Then they will REALLY get excited. :) Ruth