This year, we had Jan (Nate's Mom) and Keith (Nate's brother) here in Denver for Thanksgiving. It was great to have them come to us, as we have always flown home. (I'm not flying anywhere because of being far along in pregnancy and to save money.)
So anyway, the two fun theme's of this Thanksgiving was "swords" and "poke the bear". Johnathan was suddenly into swords like the day before they came. He always wants to sword fight now. So he was so excited to sword fight with his Uncle Keith. We did it every day. : )
Then also, we played "Poke the Bear" with Keith downstairs. He slept in the new office (which has moved downstairs to our finished basement) on a mattress on the floor. It was really dark in there so he would sleep till 9:30 or 10:30 am every morning. So when it was time for him to wake up, Nate or whoever would take Johnathan down there to his dark room with a stick and "poke the bear". Johnathan loved it! Thought it was SO funny!
Pictures of Thanksgiving on the way...
Here's my rather large growing belly. : ) Lots of differing opinions. Some people think it's really cute and looks great. Others think it is huge. This was at 32 weeks. I just took my 36 week pictures today...will post later. Getting close now!
We got Johnathan's picture with Santa this year at the Denver Zoo Lights - members preview. We had SO much fun there and it wasn't too cold. The line wasn't that long, and Johnathan wasn't scared of Santa at all! He even looked up at him and said, "I want swords for Christmas!" Then he got a candy cane from him.
Johnathan thought it would be very funny to put on Teresa's boots. We were all laughing pretty hard. Teresa, Rachel, and Rikki were in colorado for a wedding the weekend after thanksgiving so they visited us one afternoon. Had a fun time!
Here's Johnathan in the start of the merge to his big boy room. : ) This is what the office used to be (now it's downstairs). This was right around thanksgiving time.
Here's the family on Thanksgiving day. It was beautiful and warm that day, and we played basketball and football outside in the front lawn.
The day after thanksgiving, we all took Johnathan to a place in Littleton called "Pump it up"...a big jumping place for little kids. He had SO much fun.
Look at the static in his hair! Crazy!
Here's Johnathan in the garage working on his new dresser that we got on Craig's list for only $30!!! It was in great condition, other than a lot of scratches on top. So Nate sanded it down, and then restained the whole thing. Now it looks great! Can't beat $30 bucks for a big dresser.
