Our First Thanksgiving!

What a great week we have had! Long weekends for the holidays gives me excuses to sleep more and be lazy and sometimes stay in jammies until noon. Chris was able to come home early on Wednesday from work to begin the wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. It was great to be with family and be able to spend time with Jordon. The weekend went a little differently than planned when Jordon came down with his first really bad cold, which he is still battling. We thought wednesday was going to be an easy day, having fun and Jordon being able to stay down after we put him down for the night and that we'd be able to make pies and the cranberry dessert for the next day. We eventually got it done around 11 pm. But after a half hour of him being asleep he starting wailing harder than i've heard him do before. Usually i let him cry it out a bit, but he was in hysterics. So i barely pick him up and he lost all that was in his stomach. His first throwup! Poor little guy took an hour to calm himself down. He started to get stuffed up that morning, but i guess everything was draining into his throat too much and he just couldn't take it. So we were both a nervous wreck. All I could do was just wait and comfort him.

He is doing better now, the rest of the week he was such a trooper. He was on a liquid diet and not too hungry. Now he has his appetite back. I still let him try a bit of turkey and gravy and a little mashed potatoes. He loved the turkey, still trying to see about the potatoes though. Mom and Dad and Kacey and Megan came over and we had a great time. Jordon of course was the social bug telling and showing them all he could do. Chris was able to carve the turkey for the first time, we cooked Mom and Dad's turkey just so we could get the experience. Everything turned out well and the food was delicious! We had fun spending time together and appreciating all we have to be grateful for. It seems like the dinner always goes by way too fast even after all the slaving away in the kitchen you do.

We also went to Mom and Dad's house to help them with the project they had with closing off the space in front of their entrance way to the house, so now they officially have 2 floors. Chris helped with doing the beams and with the sheetrocking. It looks really good now and you can feel the difference with the heater. Both floors seem to get the same amount of heat circulation.
On Saturday we also had a family gettogether and were able to roast hot dogs, smores, and starbursts over there firepit. It was a bit cold so we made sure that Jordon stayed inside the whole time with switching back and forth of who was able to go outside to be around the fire.

Today marks Jordon's 8 month birthday, we haven't measured him to see how long he is but he weighs about 19 lbs or so. He's a big boy! He's scooting a bit and loves his belly time now. He was also able to kindof stand up around the couch and i could let go for about a second and he'd stay standing. I want him to crawl and roll as much as he can, but we'll see how it goes. Here are some pictures of us during this weekend. We sure had a lot of fun, can't wait until christmas! Here are some recent pictures from Thanksgiving!

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving, we sure love to hear updates from everyone!