Thanksgiving at Grandma & Grandpa Madorma's

Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful.  I bet anybody could take just one guess as to what we are thankful for this year.  Oh how our lives have changed in just one year.  At the beginning of the year we were still praying so very hard to 'get' pregnant and now as I type this I have a beautiful little boy laying next to me trying to get to sleep.  We had the best year yet and we are so thankful for our little miracle, Logan.

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One of our Thanksgiving traditions in the Madorma household is that all the siblings get together at my sisters house the night before and we make all of the Thanksgiving dishes (except the turkey & stuffing).  While making the food we chit-chat and afterwards we play card games until the wee hours....it is always such a nice time.  We spend the night at Dawn's and in the morning heat all the food, get ready and go over to my parents house for Thanksgiving dinner.  In the meantime, my parents take all the grandkids at their house the night before...and do some sort of craft project and play games.  In the morning they make the turkey and stuffing and hang out, waiting for the rest of us to arrive.  Logan obviously stayed with us at my sister's since he is so young and relies on his Mom for food.  :)

Logan sleeping in his Pack N Play in Aunt Dawn & Uncle Steven's room...

Logan playing with his Aunts & Uncles

The siblings playing games

Haha...Logan is sucking on a choice finger...

Buddy got a 'window' seat on the drive over to my parents house (for the record, John and Buddy were in a separate car....Buddy is not sitting on Logan...).  :)

For Thanksgiving Logan wore an adorable top "I'm Stuffed" with some cute cuffed brown pants.

Underneath he wore a turkey onesie Judy painted for him at my shower (super cute!)

We took pictures....of all the cousins...

(TJ, Isabella, Jakob, Logan, Michael, Alexis)

Alexis, Michael and Logan

All the 'boy' cousins

Another Thanksgiving tradition....my parents give all the grandchildren an ornament that depicts a big part of their life that year.  This year, Logan received his first ornament.  It was a ceramic rattle (or as John said a 'barbell' to make it more manly) that said "Baby's 1st Christmas".  Logan is holding it in his hand in the picture below.

A new tradition that my Mom wants us to start with our kids and future grandkids is an advent calendar (she gave each family the calendar - pic below).  Inside she put hershey kisses - luckily for us, this year Logan can't eat his candy...so we get to.  ;)  But each day we must be sure to tell Logan that it is a hug & kiss from Grandma & Grandpa.

We took a group family picture...

And we got a picture of just the Battermann's

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving...great food, great company and a lot to be thankful for!