Oklahoma Thanksgiving

We drove 13 hours this thanksgiving to spend the holiday with the Thomas family.  Wells and Emily were super gracious to host us all. (Joel/Angela & Co., us, and Grandma Judy).  The kids had a fantastic time reuniting with their cousins and they all played really well together.  We ended up driving through the night and pulling in Sunday morning around 11.  Mark was trying to battle strep throat (that we didn't know he had till later) so I drove a lot of the way.  Our children were angels.  Davey slept while we drove, and nursed while we got gas.  Doesn't get better than that!

Sunday night we had an Arizona reunion with our friends the Larsons.  Love them!  Kyle and Wells went to Thunderbird together and the Larsons were in our ward in Glendale.  

Charlie being a very prepared ninja. haha.

Zina, Ellie, & Ellie. These girls had a great reunion with lots of giggles as you can see. :)

Everyone!  Man we have a lot of kids! That's just 3 families folks. (and one little extra cousin from Utah. :)

I love this girl.  

Seriously every time I hang out with her I come away feeling like I'm the most amazing person ever.

She is so positive and and makes everyone feel like a million bucks!

Thanks for being so great Tiff.  Now go ahead and move to Indy in approximately 6mths. :)  

Grandma Judy getting acquainted with Davey J. for the first time.

My poor poor boy. Mark only gets sick about once a year.  To bad it happened on his vacation. :( He thought he was getting better when we left for our trip but it was just the beginning.  His throat hurt so bad he couldn't even swallow his own saliva. He spent the first couple days laying in bed with blankets piled on top shivering away. Luckily when your a dr. you can diagnose and prescribe your own medicine.  So he called it in and Grandma Judy picked it up.  Doesn't get much easier than that.  After a  few days he was feeling more like himself and able to have a little fun.  He also managed to get Dylan, Kurty, Ellie, and Isaac sick.  Way to go honey.  At least he could make things a little better by prescribing their meds to.  

These two little boys were SO adorable.  My favorite moment was when Isaac came out carrying two (very large and heavy) adult baseball mitts and said, "Sammy, want to play catch with me?"  Sammy replies, "Yeah!" and they head outside to play catch.  On his way out the door I hear Sammy say with great effort, "Dis one's a wittle heavy."  

Our boys against girls soccer game.  I let Kurty(the youngest player on the boys team) make the winning goal and boy was I in trouble.  I guess I should have made it a little less obvious because Zina could not understand why I would let the other team win when we were playing so hard and doing so good.  Her poor little heart could not handle it or understand it.   

The three 2 1/2 yr olds.  They were so cute and played so so well together.

While we were there we blessed Davey.  Such a sweet boy.  I cannot get enough of this baby.  I never want to be done having babies.  I feel like life is passing by way to quickly.  How can this be my 4th baby?!  I want to go back and have them all over again!

Gotta love Movember.

We blessed Davey the same night that Ellie was baptized.  It was really nice to be there.  Sometimes its hard living away from family and missing all these special moments.  We were so glad to share Ellie's day with her.

Everyone that made it to Davey's blessing and Ellie's baptism.

Our medium-sized family. :)

And finally Thanksgiving!

Zina and Ellie were good little table setters.

While we cooked dinner the little boys played catch in the backyard.

Brothers!  

The girls did manage the annual 7hr shopping spree on black friday.  We didn't head out until 7am friday morning so things were fairly quiet and we still managed to get a few good deals.

I love these pictures.  Mark getting a turkey carving lesson from Joel.

Yum! And yes, I put on all the weight back on that I worked so hard to get off in the last 6wks!

With 6 little boys there was plenty of wrestling.  

My camera couldn't quite catch the action and Wilson looks like he's been dismembered.

Dylan loved baby Davey.  She will be such a good big sister.

And last but not least a little xbox kinect.  sorry their heads are cut off. :)

If you are wondering Wells is on the ground and Mark is in the air.

Thanks Wells and Emily for hosting, and cooking and cleaning and everything else!  We had a great time.