Thanksgiving Day, followed by Christmas!

Our Thanksgiving Day 2017 was awesome. It was a gorgeous day, most of the family was here, and we had just a wonderful time together. The only thing missing was my Mama & Daddy!

Bmaw gets her famous noodles ready! (This is a German recipe that has been in the family for years. When we went to Germany, Blu ordered noodles and said that they tasted exactly like his family's Thanksgiving noodles!)

Working on Christmas presents during a break in cooking!

The boys discussing dumb important things around the smoker!

A three legged bucket race!

Trampoline fun!

Setting the table - learned from my Mama & Grandma!

Dessert table - mainly pumpkin pies!

An epic game of Family Frisbee - adults versus kids!

Pretty Keysi!

Twins in their orange hoodies and sweet tea!

Paw & Cambree - love this sweet pic!

Turkey prep!

Smoking the turkey!

This year, Blu had an idea to print out a paper with each person's name on it and have everyone write what they are thankful for and then read them out loud before we ate - it was beautiful!

Caedmon and Blu :)

Listening to what people said about him!

Caity & Andie

Cambree listening

Cason kept us entertained with his giant flower!

Listening hard...

Cloud & Rita

There was lots of laughter!

Me and Olga (Rita's mom)

Handsome AJ!

Shade & AJ

Turkey time!

Our best shot of all of us!

Yummy spread!

Of course, we had to take time for a photo recreation!

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After lunch, we took some motorcycle rides!

No worries, I've got this!

Off we go!

How do I stop?!

No, really, how do I stop?!

Paw and Olga

We did a quick little family photo shoot in the late afternoon sun - gorgeous!

After a quick game of Settlers, it was time to do our Tidwell Family Christmas!

We started with the reading of the Christmas story from Matthew, Luke, and John!

Blu & the boys listening

Cambree helped to read some!

Paw may or may not have fallen asleep during the reading of the Christmas story...

Lighting candles

Time for gifts! Santa Shade helped out!

We got Paw an Echodot!

Caedmon's first razor..no!!

Yugioh stuff for Cason & AJ!

Uncle Cloud got the kids a Nintendo Switch, which is apparently pretty awesome!

It was a great day to remember all that we are so grateful for - God has blessed me with the best two families in the world, and I am SO thankful! Now on to Friday - celebrating Cason's 9th birthday!