Thanksgiving

I think we’ve started a new Thanksgiving tradition. It’s been many years trying to establish one, and now we’ve found one that we really enjoy. We went to Twin Falls for the second year in a row to spend Thanksgiving with the Aldama’s, Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle B. We left Wednesday early in the morning and made good time. The kids were good in the car for the 9 1/2 hour drive. They were so excited to see their cousins they couldn’t sleep. It was a long night for all of us. Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving day.

This was the popular sleeping nook. At least 4 children slept there each night.

Noelle and Lucia were busy primping and playing Barbies.

Tami and Dad chatting.We went to Centennial ParkThat bridge behind her terrifies me!Grandpa, Julio and some of the kids hiked up to the top of this huge rock. What a view!

Noelle was a little mama to Tessa.Tessa spent a lot of time on these stairs and had two good tumbles down them!

This is fuzzy but funny!The kids enjoying dessert. We had such a delicious dinner and a nice day. I’m so thankful we were able to spend it all together. We just missed the Hill’s.

Halloween and my birthday

Mary Todd LincolnThe bunnyLucia wore a different costume to go trick-or-treating at daddy’s office. I don’t know why I can’t find a picture of Frankenstein!

the tooth fairyFlo the Progressive ladyMy birthday was on a Sunday this year. We did have my new traditional crab feed dinner and Dad’s birthday cake. yum!

Typical Sylvie

I must blog about this before I forget. After our fun-packed, but exhausting days at Disneyland, I got up the following morning at our hotel and tried to sneak out to go eat a delicious, hot cooked breakfast downstairs. The hotel was set up where there was a huge atrium in the middle of balconies looking down onto it. There are two glass elevators in the middle of the hotel going down to the atrium where breakfast is served. Just as I was slipping out the door, one child woke up and soon 3 children were awake and wanted to go downstairs with me. So, the 4 of us headed down to eat. I got the kids food first and got them settled while they ate. Then I went to get my food which took a while since I toasted some bread and got some eggs to order. I finally sat down to eat and all the kids were done eating. Lucia had to go to the bathroom and so Marco and Sylvie decided they wanted to go back to the room as well. I didn’t want to leave my uneaten breakfast on the table (I should have just taken it up to the room with me), so I left it and walked the kids to the elevator, put them in the elevator and told Lucia to push 4. I watched the doors close and went back to my table to eat. Suddenly a loud alarm went off and I look up at the glass elevator to see my kids jumping and crying and the elevator stopped between floors. I wasn’t the only one staring at them-all of the guests and hotel workers were too! People were gasping and saying, “Who’s kids are those?”  I ran over to the elevator and tried to get it to come down, but since Sylvie pushed the alarm it was stuck. I ran up the two floors and got the doors open as employees were running around trying to figure out how to turn off the alarm. I was so mortified. I ran back to our room with the kids and refused to leave until we checked out and I went out the back stairs.  Lucia said she did push 4, but as soon as they started moving, Sylvie pushed the emergency button. Typical Sylvie. It did freak her out pretty bad and I doubt she’ll get into an elevator for a long time.

Here is a picture of the kids outside our room at the hotel.