Thanksgiving 2011

Lots to be thankful for this year!  Here's the quick rundown how we spent our turkey day(s)...

 Trent took advantage of the nice weather and put up our lights.

 I got a fancy new apron from Trent's grandma to wear as the hostess.

 With such beautiful weather we spent part of the evening on the deck.

 My dad and bro

 Joshua and Uncle Trent throwing the football as they waited on dinnertime.

 Our HUGE spread of food.  Ridiculously good.

 Group shot of our families in our home.

 3 generations of McMillans

 Friday night- after a LONG day of Black Friday shopping... Lora and Angie surprised us "kids" with Christmas themed shirts to wear on our holiday light trip to Longview Lake.  Hilarious.

 My favorite purchase from my Black Friday shopping... Bieber's Christmas album!!!  Am I 26 or 13?  The boys enjoyed the CD as well :)

 I think Trent and my mom had their fill of Biebs' singing after listening to the CD straight through... 3 times.

 The lights at Longview Lake are amazing.  It has definitely become a Christmas tradition to head out there the Friday night after Thanksgiving... a little bit of a drive from Gardner to Lee's Summit but totally worth it!

 Country Mouth Jr. LOVED the lights.  **Disclaimer- the car wasn't moving and Ashley was holding onto her when this pic was taken ;)**

 Tradition #2 is stopping by the house of  "the crazy blow up people" to walk through all their decorations.  Don't worry... you're allowed to walk through their yard.  They have signs saying so :)

 Lots of tunnels and walkways to poke around in.

 One of no-shave-November's victims

 One guess who Joshua was annoyed at.  Haha... love this picture... so much brotherly love going on.

 And the big picture look of the place.  But it doesn't even begin to describe it.  Pictures seriously don't do it justice.  This is something you have to see to believe.

 And our new tradition we added this year that I'm most excited about- our Thanksgiving book.

 It's just a cheap journal that I bought last minute at Wal-Mart and threw some scrapbooking stickers on.

Inside on the first page we'll glue in the group picture.  Then on the following pages everyone that was at our house had to write what they were thankful for.  Even Jeryn had to get in on the action with her scribbles.  Each year we'll keep adding to the book as our families grow and change.  I'm excited to think that with kids you'd be able to see how their spelling/writing changes as they grow up.  Thank you to some lady in blog-land who thought up this cool idea!