Thanksgiving

Earlier in the month we put together a Thanksgiving tree to help remind us of all the things we are thankful for. Austin and Mikayla really enjoyed doing this and came up with almost all the things on the tree on their own. We discovered there is a lot to be thankful for.

 Thanksgiving morning Craig took Austin and his cousins who had spent the night to the annual  turkey bowl. There was a choice of football and soccer and no surprise they chose soccer.

 Mikayla made handprint turkeys for all the kids attending thanksgiving dinner. We had a traditional dinner at Dave and Debbie's house. For the previous 12 weeks several of us were participating in a weight loss challenge which ended on thanksgiving day.

 The top three losers (aka winners) of the challenge.
This was calculated by the percentage of weight lost not just pounds. 

 Andrea snuck in at the end and was the biggest loser, followed by Jeff, and then Dave. Altogether we lost a total of 140lbs which is awesome!  My goal was to lose 10 pounds and I lost 11.2 pounds so I was super happy about that. I'm sure you can imagine how much we all enjoyed thanksgiving dinner and the pies after 12 weeks of watching the calories!

 Brooklyn and Bristol about to enjoy their chocolate pie!

 We ended the night with another sleepover. This time the boys at Jeff and Andrea's and the girls at our house. It was Bristol's first sleepover at our house. She looks excited!

 On Friday afternoon us girls had fun getting together to do a Christmas craft.

Then on Saturday we had another Thanksgiving dinner at my parents house with Nathan & Dayleigh, Travis and Jessica who came into town. The kids were super excited about the leaves at my parents house since we don't have trees. They spend a good hour outside raking leaves into a big pile. It was a great weekend. So much to be thankful for especially people. I feel so grateful to be surrounded by such wonderful family and friends!