thanksgiving

The boys celebrated Grandparents Day at Zion the day before Thanksgiving, with our neighbors the Bentley's standing in as grand-neighbors.  The boys did some songs in the Wednesday morning service, and then Owen had Ruth and neighbor Owen in his class for the morning.

That night the Rices drove down from Washington to spend the long weekend with us.  The boys all had a blast- with Owen and Henry picking right up from a year ago, and Ben adopting Jackson as his friend.  We took them to "Frozen" to get out of the house while Richard prepared a truly amazing Thanksgiving feast.  On Friday, we drove up to the Evergreen Aviation Museum and enjoyed looking at the rocket and plane exhibits, then concluded at the water park.  Ben was tall enough for the water slides this year and he and Richard went on each of them together.

It was fun to see how much Kate had grown, and she warmed up to us after a little bit.  All the boys share a love of legos, electronics, and Star Wars, and burned a bunch of energy running around the house.