We loved getting to see Ricky and Becky and the girls this week. Becky's whole family was in town for Thanksgiving as was ours and so they were wonderful dividing up their time to share with each family. Becky and the girls and I had a fun Monday afternoon going on a boot hunt. Yes you read that right, a Boot Hunt is when you are looking for boots, in a size 3 for Miss Keelie. We thought we knew what we wanted, but when we couldn't find them, we changed our mind to what we found and loved them even more than what we thought we wanted. Does that make any sense at all? It's a good way to be, thanks Keelie. We had a fun meet up at Six Flags on Tuesday evening and LOVED going on the snow hill with them. I'm not sure if we had more fun in line or more fun on the actual ride, but it was just plain great to be together! Thanks for all the miles and tolls you paid to hang with us, We love you!
Tatia's family arrived on Wednesday evening after a long day of traveling. Their original flight was delayed two hours, which made it impossible to catch their connecting flight in Houston so the airline was kind enough to reschedule them on a direct flight which ended up arriving 30 minutes before the original flight would have arrived. We scooped them up at the airport and met up with everyone at El Fenix for enchiladas, except Sky's family who were celebrating Thanksgiving a day early with Kara's family so they could come to our thanksgiving on Thursday. It was a bit wild as we had to wait and wait. It's not easy cooking enchiladas for 20 people I guess. But the cousins loved being together. We packed a lot into the next few days. We just put them on the plane to head home a few minutes ago. We miss you already!
Our Carmichael Thiots
Charlie's family arrived on Sunday night, 30 minutes ahead of schedule and we loved having them here. They left to go home on Friday afternoon and it came way to quickly for us. We would have loved them for much longer. Keelie and Callum loved spending time with cousins, and Charlie made everyone happy by finding old toys in the attic and playing with them with the kids. He found an entire big tote filled up with semi trucks and trailers and oh such fun. Callum gave them a tubby and scrubbed them all up to look like new. I was so impressed when I went in to clean the tub afterwards, and it was perfectly clean. Charlie had scrubbed the tub after Callum scrubbed the trucks. What a great team they are. Thanks guys, we miss you already too!
Pierce's family except for him arrived on Sunday afternoon and Pierce arrived in the middle of the night on Tuesday. They came over on Wednesday and we loved getting to see them and the cousins loved playing together. Pierce was the hero in setting up the Christmas train under the Christmas tree on Friday. Tatia thought it would be fun for the kids to help us get Christmas set up and everyone was great helpers. It was almost like having Santa's elves over setting up the magic of Chrsitmas here. Everyone loved the train, Thanks Pierce, it's been years since it has run. Pierce had to work his magic on Sodering the battery pack back together. He's got some sweet skills! Thank you all!
Elinor was enchanted with our Baby Charlie. She couldn't believe there was someone almost her size in this world and she couldn't keep her hands away from him. She loved hugging him and kissing him. So very cute! Elie got to pick out their tree this year and they picked a live Christmas tree and it goes almost to the cieling in their home. It's very very very tall, and smells oh so good. She is loving it and has not tipped it over YET! We met up with family at the Christmas Lights at the Zoo on Saturday afternoon and loved seeing all the lights. The animals had gone to bed but the lights were fabulous. It was great fun! Tatia's kids had been wishing for Happy Meals at Mcdonalds all week and Graypa treated them to happy meals at the Mcdonalds right by the Zoo. It was way fun and had a great play ground. Everybody was happy. Even little Elie played on the playground.
It's been quite a week here in Plano, Texas. I don't know when our house has been filled with so many people that I love so much. I loved looking around and seeing all those happy faces and it just made me smile. My face hurts from smiling so much. It was truly a very Thankful Week. Thanksgiving with our feast was delicious with so many hands to help. I loved our Family photo Shoot before we ate. Stacy and Tatia did a great job of fitting us all into one photo. That is no easy job with 23 Thiots. We loved having the Christensen's join us for Thanksgiving. We love pretending that they too are really Thiots. Pierce leaves tonight and Stacy and the kids get to stay until Tuesday. We are hoping to enjoy every minute we have left. Another bonus of the week was my sister Laurie and her hubby Mike came to town for Mike's brothers son's wedding on Friday. They have come by a couple of times when they had some free time. We LOVED it! My dad sent with Laurie a doll for each of the little girls from my mom's doll collections. They were thrilled and the boys each got flashlights. They too were delighted! Thank you Laurie and Mike for making the big effort to come see us too. I hope you had a wonderful week of Thanksgiving too. Sure love you, Robynn
