Pre-Thanksgiving Festivities

November has been a crazy month for us.  On November 11th, I flew out to Minnieapolis, MN for the week to do some training for Delta Airlines.  My mom was able to fly out for the week to help watch the 3 kiddos while I was away.  After returning from my trip, that weekend, my mom, Zoey, and Uncle Nic took off in his car and headed for Charlotte.  Sadly, Uncle Nic has decided to move back to Charlotte with my parents so that he can start school---we are pretty sad about it.  Anyways, Zoey decided to go with my mom so she could spend some 1-on-1 time with the grandparents for the week.  This is the first time I have ever been away from Zoey, and I am happy to report that she was one happy girl since being totally spoiled and receiving all the attention in the world from her grandparents.
Then on Saturday, November 23rd, myself, Addison, and Rhett took advantage of our Free Flight Benefits with Delta and flew out to Charlotte to spend the week at my parents house and to pick up Zoey.  Mike, unfortunately had to work the week of Thanksgiving and was unable to get it off, so I went alone with the kids.  All of my siblings, minus Cameron (who is serving a 2 year mission for our church) were all coming into town for the Thanksgiving holiday.  So we got to spend the whole week with cousins and all the uncles and aunts.  We had a fun week with all of us hanging out.  We ate out, went to a parade, shopped, saw Catching Fire, and also got to spend a night out at the Lake House in South Carolina.  On Thanksgiving morning, the kids and I flew out bright and early back to New York so we could get home in time to spend the holiday with Mike.  After flying in, we hosted Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of friends 4 hours later (yes, we are crazy, we know this).  Everything worked out beautifully.  We loved spending time with the family and thoroughly enjoyed hosting Thanksgiving dinner once again with friends.  We have so much to be grateful for and look very forward in to celebrating the Christmas season this year.

Rhett and I on the airplane excited to go

After landing in Charlotte, Aunt Heather picked us up and we headed out to Concord, NC to watch their holiday parade that they put on every year.  It was actually a very good parade, we were quite impressed.  The kids definitely seemed to enjoy it, especially Rhett--I think his favorite part was the popcorn.  

 All 9 grandbabies in their Christmas Sunday outfits from Nana & Grandpa....I took pictures with my phone, so the quality is not the best

Pictured from Left to Right:  Macey, Will, Zoey, Peter, Lucy, Tate Sunny, Addison, Rhett

The kids put on a play for us (again, phone camera sucks)

Rhett giving his cousin Peter hugs

For Christmas this year, Nana and Grandpa Ladd took all the kids to Build-A-Bear...here is Rhett stuffing up his tiger he picked out.

All the kids with their new friends to take home

Another photo-op wiht Nana

Macey & Addison on our last night in the Carolinas....these 2 were best buddies all week.  They are only 9 months apart...wish we lived closer.  

Thanks Nana and Grandpa for hosting us again.  As always, we loved being home and hanging out with everyone.  Until next time!!