Turkey Day & Isaac's 2nd Birthday Party!

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend! We traveled all over the state and got to see all of our family! We (Paul, Ashley, Gradyn, and I) left Wednesday afternoon for Ruskin and had dinner with my Dad, Zoya, and Irina at the farm. We then went to Hebron and stayed with Dan Wednesday night. We were up late that night making the desserts for Thursday.

Thanksgiving morning we finished making the food/desserts we needed to take for lunch and went to church in Hebron. We then went to celebrate Thanksgiving at my Grandma Marlene's in Fairbury with my Dad's side of the family. It was a fun time! We then went back to Hebron to have a Thanksgiving supper with Dan. 2 delicious turkey dinner's that day. After that we left for Lincoln so that Paul and Gradyn could ride to Pender with Andy, Cassie, and the boys. Ashley and I stayed in Lincoln to do some Christmas shopping on black Friday. We did a LOT of shopping and did some damage to the Christmas shopping list. It was a lot of fun. Ashley and I could definately shop for days and still keep going, if we had the money to do it!

After the shopping, I left for Pender and we spent the rest of the weekend there. Isaac's 2nd Birthday Party was on Saturday night. His birthday was on Thanksgiving Day this year! It was an Elmo themed party and lots of fun! We got him tickets to Sesame Street Live in Omaha on January 2nd, so are very excited to see how he reacts to that! The party was a lot of fun and watching him open his presents was really funny!

Also during our time in Pender we went to visit Gradyn's Great-Grandma and Grandpa Guenther so they could see him for a little bit. We took Isaac with and him and Grady had a lot of fun playing with Grandma Betty in her basement with all her fun toys! (Pictures below)

We left on Sunday morning to swing back through Lincoln to pick up Ashley and then head home. It was a lot of traveling and a tiring weekend (I didn't go to bed before midnight the entire 4 nights, which is very unlike me), but a lot of fun! And, it was awesome to get to see a lot of our family. We should get to see everyone at Christmas as we are planning on going to all 6 or 7 Christmas's that are planned! Should be an exciting (and possibly exhausting....) week! :)

Hope everyone is having a great Holiday season! We are getting excited for Gradyn's first Christmas! Should be a very special and blessed time!

Here are some pictures of our weekend:

This is Gradyn in my classroom at school when we went to the Christmas program: