Thanksgiving 2012

Like I said in my last post, I'm keeping this catch up stuff brief, so here are a few photos of our Turkey Day.

To get ourselves in the Thanksgiving spirit, Attia and I did a little turkey art. 

That tongue really helps with concentration

Gobble Gobble!

On Thanksgiving Day we got together with Gram and Grump in Junction City. As always, Gram prepared a wonderful meal and we enjoyed spending time together.

Attia was so excited she couldn't wait, and helped herself right up to the table. 

Yum!

A little story time with Grump after dinner.

Some spin around time with Gram.

And an attempt at a family picture

Which can be difficult on a windy day with a squirmy toddler. :-)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Our Strawberry Monster

As I mentioned  in my last post, on the Saturday of Mother's Day weekend Attia and I got together with Aunt Heidi, Jack and Gram to do some strawberry picking out at Wohletz Farm.

It was our first trip to a u-pick farm and I was hoping that Attia would enjoy picking berries. No worries there! She managed to keep herself very busy picking (and eating) berries the entire time we were there.

It was love at first bite.

 So she took a second, and a third, and a fourth... and she didn't stop there!

Picking berries with Gram

Eventually she decided that it was much easier to forgo picking them all together and just eat them straight off of the vine. :-)

By the end of the trip Attia had a very full belly and the sweet, sticky evidence of her strawberry pig out was everywhere! 

One sweet little strawberry monster :-)

The rest of us ended up with several pounds of strawberries to take home.  Our group total was about 28 pounds! Thats a lot of strawberries! I only picked about four pounds because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to use them all, but they were delicious and got gobbled up quicker than I thought they would! 

After our trip to the farm we all headed back to Heidi and Drew's house to meet the boys for lunch. Attia and Jack had a blast playing together in the backyard. 

So sweet!

All-in-all a pretty great day. 

Thanks for having us Heidi, and thanks for introducing us to the strawberry patch! We can't wait to make a trip next year!

**Some of these pictures came from Heidi's blog. Thanks Heidi!

Christmas!!!

Attia's first Christmas was wonderful. We stayed home to celebrate this year, and we had a very nice, relaxing, and magical Christmas with our little family.

On Christmas Eve, Austin's parents came over in the afternoon to celebrate with us. We thought the tree was looking full with presents, but when Gram and Grump arrived the room was suddenly filled with gifts several times the size of Attia! She thought they were great to explore, and she went straight for the ribbons!

 She helped to tear open the paper a little, but she was really more interested in what was inside once someone else got it unwrapped.  :-)

Of course she had to try out her new toys. She really liked riding on her new singing/rocking pony!

After exchanging gifts we enjoyed Gram's delicious cheesecake, and visited while Attia played with her toys. In the evening Gram and Grump went to take part in more Christmas activities with their other grandchild in Lawrence, Jack!

We spent the evening munching on caramel popcorn and Christmas cookies, and before bed Attia and I visited with the Christmas Elf.

We told him goodbye and wished him well on his return trip to the North Pole, and we also asked him to tell Santa that Attia had been a very good girl. 

Attia first met the Christmas Elf on December 1st, and although she was not very aware of him this year, he has been watching her behavior all month in order to report back to Santa.

On Christmas morning it was evident that Santa had visited and Attia had indeed been a very good girl. But before opening presents Attia wanted to go for a pony ride.

Then she got into it and had a LOT of fun opening and playing with everything!

A block!!!

Our little angel playing with her new foam play mat

Even the pets got presents and Attia enjoyed helping Jack play with his.

All in all it was a great first Christmas together as a family. Now time to start counting down the days until next year!