Happy Thanksgiving

We had a good Thanksgiving this year. For the first time in five years, we traveled to Washington for Thanksgiving. It worked out well that Taylee's check-up, Uncle Andy's homecoming from his mission, Uncle Sam's farewell and Thanksgiving could all happen in the same week.

We started out at Grandma Sillito's... it was nice to spend a few days with grama and grampa all to ourselves. Here is Taylee and grama making turkeys.

Taylee had her check-up the day before Thanksgiving and everything went well. No new news which is good news!

While we were home, we also got to celebrate Lily's birthday party. She is turning four in December, but with so many cousins around they decided to celebrate early.

Lily, Jacey and Taylee at the Children's museum in Olympia... what a cool place!

It took forever to convince Tay and Ellie to leave the kitchen/store/house part of the museum and check out what else they had... they LOVED it!

Taylee and Lily playing at the water table...

The cutest birthday girl ever....

Later that week we went and stayed in Maple Valley to be closer to all the Alldredge festivities...
(Thank you Danny and Makay for letting us stay... we had such a good time!)

It has been a while since all 7 Alldredge brother's were together. They sang the musical number at Andy and Sam's homecoming/farewell. It is pretty powerful to see all of them together knowing they all served or are about to serve missions... so cool!

Sam really belting it out....! :)

Cute cousins... Ammon, Addi and Taylee

Isaac and Bonnie

We waited to have Thanksgiving until Sunday when all the family and friends were around. I think they were expecting like 50 people for dinner. We had it at the Anderson's Barn and there was lots of room to play. Taylee and Addi playing the piano...

And of course when all of the family is actually together, we must have family pictures.
This is all the Alldredge girls...

All the Alldredge boys.... (we are getting totally out numbered)
There are more, but didn't get taken with my camera or didn't turn out well. Good thing I wasn't the main photographer...

And of course when we got home there was snow... we had great roads, but all the next day it snowed and snowed.

I must add too that our newest Sillito baby came while we were home too. Dan and Jenni had little Sadie on Thanksgiving and it was so nice to meet her!