The Saunders family elves!

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Choo-Choo...

Here's my little conductor having fun with his choo choo train. He got this train set last year and has had so much fun playing with it. What can I say, he's just like his daddy...fascinated with choo choo's!!

Oh, Christmas Tree...

Ryan "helping" decorate the tree.

He was having so much fun looking at all the ornaments.
Just like his Papa, measuring the tree with his tools.
Here's the finished product!!
Sunday night after our weekend in Roanoke we brought our tree inside so we could open it up and let it fall since we were going to decorate it Monday night. We have a tradition with my parents that we help decorate each others trees, so they came over for dinner Monday night and helped us decorate our tree (we returned the favor last night and helped them with their tree). Ryan was so excited to get all the decorations out and had been begging me all day to put the lights on the tree. The guys put the lights on the tree and the ladies do the rest. Ryan had a great time...unfortunately I have no pictures of Emily because she wasn't feeling well and went to bed a little early. (Found out the next day the she had another ear infection and some other sort of infection that caused red bumps all over her chest.) We put the final touches on the tree after the kids went to bed (picked up all the tinsel off the floor that Ryan dropped), and finally it was done!

Thanksgiving weekend!!

Ryan and cousin Kaitlin

Here's our Christmas tree, freshly cut!!
Ryan and daddy with the tree
Emily sitting in the car, it was too cold for her.

Ryan had a ball playing in the leaves with his cousins.

Friday morning we loaded up the car and headed to Roanoke to visit Kevin's family for the weekend. After the 4 hour drive there we were able to just relax and enjoy time with family on Friday night. Saturday morning we were up and out of the house early to go and cut down our Christmas tree. Every year we drive up into the mountains (close to Va Tech) to this Christmas tree farm to get our tree. You get to climb up the side of the mountain, pick out your tree, cut it down yourself and they wrap it up for you. We tie it to the top of the truck and bring it home. This year we even got my parents tree and brought it back for them. It was so cold, I think it was only about 24 degrees! That didn't matter to Ryan, he climbed up that hill and had a ball picking out his tree and helping cut it down and drag it to the bottom of the hill. He must have gone up and down that hill at least 4 times, and trust me it was pretty steep. Emily stayed in the car with Nanny since it was so cold, and she had her own fun staying warm and singing Christmas carols. We got all our trees and headed back to the house, it was at least an hour drive to get there. Ryan spent the rest of the day outside raking leaves with his cousins and having a blast jumping in the big pile! Saturday night we headed over to some of Kevin's friends house to have dinner and play with their kids. I don't think the kids got to bed until at least 10:00 that night. Surprisingly they did pretty well considering the late night. Sunday afternoon we headed home and the kids took good naps in the car, they were so exhausted from all the fun they had. We had a great weekend with lots more wonderful memories!!

Thanksgiving day!!

Emily wanted so badly to go outside and play.

Ryan played ball outside with his cousin Christopher.
I know it has been a while since I have blogged, but you know how things get this time of year. We have been just so busy but now things have settled down a little and I am back on the blogging scene. We spent Thanksgiving day at my aunt's house right here in town. We have always celebrated at her house with my mom's side of the family. Ryan had some cousins to play with and had so much fun playing ball with them. Emily just begged to go outside and play too and fortunately it was nice enough so we spent a lot of the day outside. It was a wonderful day and we are so thankful for all our family that live here around us and all the cousins that Ryan has to play with.