Portraits with the Brown Family

While the whole Brown family was together for Thanksgiving we decided to create a great gift for Grandma Peg. :)  We took her to get family pictures taken since the last time we did this was before AJ was born.  It turned out really well and I think she was a little happy with her surprise Birthday gift.  Not a lot to say as captions for these pics, but some wonderful pictures of our family. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Thanksgiving

We were all super excited for Ryan's family to come out for Thanksgiving this year, not only were his parents coming but his sister Bethany was able to come as well.  The kids adore their aunt B and we were excited to show off our new home and area to her.  We had a great week together and tried to fit in as much as we could.  Time always goes faster than you want it to.  :)

Grandma and AJ making some pumpkin bread for the family to enjoy

Watching old videos on Grandma's phone

One cool dude

We were out at Bass Pro one day after having lunch at Bricktown and AJ found this really cool ATV...I think he was hoping he would find this later under the Christmas tree :)

Little man is intent on his toast

Some fun ornament coloring time with Grandma and Pa

We also had a nice day to go to the zoo...I promise it was not as cold as these Central Coast Californians make it look ;)

Pa, Grandma, Aunt B, Jake and AJ checking out the anteater

AJ was sooooo excited to ride on the carousel!!!  His excitement sometimes comes across as very intense as you can see on his face.  :)

Pa and Jake having a blast

And AJ was just in heaven with Grandma

Bliss

Boys goofing off on a large bunny

Oklahoma boys

Halfway through our zoo day Ryan was able to join us which made the boys really happy.  :)

Jake and AJ making pies with Grandma

AJ kept wanting Jake's turkey hat from his Thanksgiving Program and so Jake made him one of his own...not sure AJ thought it was as cool...but it was still very sweet :)

Jake and his Aunt B both love doing puzzles, so it was fun to see them working puzzles together

Turkey!!!!

We had a great Thanksgiving dinner, tons of yummy food!

Although I think AJ mostly loved the pumpkin pie :) (and yes he chose to wear his camo jammies all day long)

Jake loved the entire dinner!  Gotta love this boy and how well he eats now, no more picky eater. :D

Not a great picture but it is so AJ.  He loves to give hugs, and his are given with his whole body and soul.  They are fantastic.  But when he really wants to give a love he wants to smoosh his check to yours...its so cute and something very special from him.

Jake wanted to make a new game on Thanksgiving night...

...pin the feather on the turkey!  Love my creative boy!!!

Ending a perfect day with a book.  What a fantastic Thanksgiving!!!

Thank you so much Grandma, Pa and Aunt B for coming to spend Thanksgiving with us, we loved every moment of it!!!



Jake's Class Thanksgivng Program

Going into Thanksgiving was also a lot of fun, we had Ryan's family coming to visit, a little bit of time off and Jake had his Thanksgiving program at school.  He was really excited to show it off as he had been practicing for weeks and even had a line to share with the rest of his class.  And since it was an off Friday Ryan was even able to come (a blessing since he has been so busy at work).  So we all really enjoyed ourselves.

Jake's Spiderman Turkey!  :)  I loved this assignment.  Jake came home from school with a plain turkey and his teacher included the instructions that this turkey was trying to survive Thanksgiving and so we needed to find things around the house and decorate him in a disguise so that he would be saved.  Jake of course wanted to turn him into a super hero...I think he turned out pretty well. :)

Here is Jake sitting with his class, there are 17 kids in his Kindergarten class and his teacher impressed us all in how well they behaved during the program.  :)

While they waited for all the parents to get there they got to take turns doing little things for their classmates to copy.  Can you tell Jake is enjoying his turn?

Proud boy!

All ready

Getting their turkey hats on

And the gestures begin

Too darn cute

 

Very happy kids too :) (the little girl to the left of Jake is a friend of his, not just from school but from the neighborhood and AWANA as well)

They are so excited to show every part

Jake's drawing, and telling everyone that he is thankful for toys :)

They did great!

His Kindergarten class

Daddy modeling the turkey hat

Jake and his friend Alison wanted a picture together.  They were in Pre-K together as well and have stayed friends this year.

Jake and his wonderful teacher Mrs. Bovos (he adores her)

Jake showing off his Turkey in the school hallway

Just showing goofball AJ loving the boys rocking horse

I guess it works backwards too :)

Right before Thanksgiving our TV started to go (yeah I am wondering what Ryan did too...too perfect a timing).  So on this day he was shopping TVs at Best Buy and the kids entertained themselves with an Xbox and an Avengers Lego game.  :)  They loved it and actually were figuring out how to do a lot of things.