Turkey Day 2012

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We started Turkey day out by watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and breakfast.

Annie

closely watching Cinderella

We also finished up our Turkey Artwork. I think it turned out adorable.

Casey is thankful this year for the sun and her hickory nut.

We had Thanksgiving dinner at our friends house.   Here is an attempt at a family photo before heading over.

the spread

the ladies lunching

The divas

It was a lovely thanksgiving spent with great friends.  Here's to many more years of friendship.

Decorating the Tree

Yes, it is only November 18 and yes we have the Christmas tree up.  The girls have been so excited about the tree and we decided to use the opportunity to have the tree act as our "elf."  They have decided that the tree is magical and Santa watches.  So last night we went and bought our tree.  Our old one stopped working so it was time for a new one. 

Everyone needs to wear reindeer antlers while decorating the tree.

first ball of the year

it's beginning to look like a Mister Roger's Christmas tree

I had to do some rearranging to make the most use of the space.

Emma examining her work

the finished product

The santa thing may or may not have to do with the fact that the tree topper is a santa hat :)

Fall Artwork

I was feeling crafty and I had these canvases lying around the house that I picked up over the summer.  I wanted to do something fall/winter to hang in the living room.  I love handprint art and thought it would be kinda fun to do something with a turkey.  While the girls were napping I went ahead and prepped the canvas and did the outline of the turkey.

  I had some help with the circle (can) and the eyes were google eyes that had on hand.

When the ladies woke up from their nap they were excited to start.  I need to have some smocks so we went to daddy's closet to grab some old shirts.  Nana has a picture of mommy with a shirt like this doing artwork.

While the turkey body dried, we started to work on our other project.  This one was pinterest inspired...snowflakes.  I had prepped the canvas while they were sleeping so all they had to do was paint and mix.

Can we start now mommy...

First smattering of paint on Lily's snowflake picture.

Emma started with white

next comes the smearing

and the swooshing

and the swirling

how does this look mommy???

Emma's smearing is almost done

By the time the snowflakes were done, the turkey feathers were ready to be printed. The girls picked out the colors and the order.

hand painted and ready to feather.

While waiting for the feather to dry our snowflakes were ready to be unmasked.  I think that turned out pretty cute.  Just like real snowflakes, no two are the same.

We still need to do another row of feathers for the turkey project to be complete.  It was daddy's suggestion.

We Went to the Fair

I'm not exactly sure the entire thought process that went into this little adventure, but daddy and I thought that  it would be a super fun idea to take you ladies to the North Florida Fair.  Granted daddy and I have never been and we've lived in town for a very long time.  The weather was perfect, so we thought...why not.

Daddy and Lily taking the lead.

a sneak peak inside.

Waiting our turn in line 

family photo

After we got our tickets (WOW the fair is expensive), we headed over to the "petting zoo."  They had a very large area set up to see, feed and touch the various animals.

baaa

watch you glasses Lily.

I think she likes it.

llama llama...

alpaca

this reminded me of the animal at the end of "The Never Ending Story"

Camel

After the petting zoo area we braved your first ride...the carousel.  You ladies loved it!!!!!

Next on the ride agenda were the fire truck...man these things went really fast for a little kids ride.

The next ride of choice was the dinosaurs.

We took a small snack break after the spinning rides.  Daddy thought that it was only appropriate that since you were at your first fair, that you need to experience cotton candy...oh daddy

I think they like it...I hope the blue comes off.

Mommy and her blue tongued cuties.

Contemplating going on the ferris wheel.

we did it...hold on Lily

Don't look down.

Arial view of the fair

Daddy and Lily

Mommy and Emma

Overall, it was a successful trip.  You ladies had fun and got to experience the fair and mommy and daddy had mild panic attacks on the ferris wheel.  A good time had by all :)