thanksgivings and babies!!

on my birthday i had thanksgiving at my dad's house. we had grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. it was a lovely day. after hanging out for awhile, and when the sun was perfect lighting, we headed outside and my cousin kylie took some family pictures for us... let's just say that it was quite interesting with us 4 and the dogs. ayaya. lol 

we moved and moved and moved emily's butt before she would finally stay put! lol

after about the first 10ish pictures, we realized that dad looked awkwarddddddd. what on earth was he trying to do with those hands? :-] haha

so after telling him to do something different with his hands, he decided that choking me would be a good position. :-] lol that only lasted for 2 pictures before we moved to a different position.

this one was our christmas card i think...

the sister and the boyfriend. hopefully he'll put this on his fb profile pictures instead of his TRUCK! hint, hint, nick!

my dad's parents and us girls. 

i believe kylie cracked a joke about an exploding cat and we all cracked up at this moment. :-]

on monday i got to go to tuscola to visit the  triplets! they were all sleeping when i got there, but it wasn't too long before they all woke up. 

left to right: jackson, ava, connor

i was SO excited to hold all of them at the same time :-]

ava who is a spitting image of her mother -- i can hardly believe how much she looks like kristen!

jackson

connor

on saturday we had thanksgiving with my mom's side of the family. it was a relaxing afternoon to just hang out and chit chat. 

2 of my favorite boys - jesse and michael 

in the last few years we've started playing poker after we're done eating. after being accused time after time after time of stealing our uncle's money, whitney went to the dollar general (gotta love small town hick-ness: no walmart) and bought a poker set! so now we play with chips instead of all their change and no one gets accused of stealing their money :-] win win situation haha

mom & lee

my favorite boys again :-]

the brother and sister

michael, mom, uncle rog, and alex

sisters <3

oh i missed him soooooo much. he's almost too big to hold like that now!

papaw with all his kiddos. rog, doug, terry, and mom

then we tried to do a family picture of us.... well it was interesting too. we couldn't get everyone to look at the camera at the same time! lol

this was the best one i think and alex still has that funny look on her face because she was tickling jesse's foot haha

he is just music to my heart. :-]