Thanksgiving 2009

This year we spent Thanksgiving at Grandma and Grandpa Timm's house in Pendleton. Before we did that though, we needed to stop in and see how Grammy Lewis was doing after her hip replacement on Monday. She was supposed to come home from the hospital on Thanksgiving afternoon and we were going to have breakfast with her at the hospital, but to every one's surprise the physical therapist suggested that she go home Wednesday night because she was doing so well! So, we got to have a nice breakfast at their house before heading out to Pendleton. It was great to see her, we're very proud of all the hard work she's doing to recovery quickly so she can run after little misses again! The drive out to Pendleton was about 3 1/2 hours and Ashley did great! She slept an hour, and entertained herself almost the whole rest of the way. We did have to crank up some kids tunes and sing "This old Man" to entertain her, she got a kick out of that! Uncle Mike drove out from Seattle and joined us for the holiday this year. It was really good to see him and it meant a lot to have him there. Steph put on quite the spread and we were all hurting afterward from eating too much. As always we had plenty of leftovers to last us the rest of the weekend. Friday morning we had breakfast with Santa, which may have to be a new tradition. They did a really nice job with a pancake breakfast, picture with Santa and crafts for the kids. We dressed Ashley up in her elf outfit and of course everyone was commenting on how cute she looked and it made Grandma very proud since she made it. Ashley wasn't so excited about the picture with Santa, but we attempted a family picture and got one that didn't turn out so bad. Friday night we made traditional gingerbread houses, which was a lot of fun! We ate about as much candy as we put on the house, but accounted for that when we bought our supply at the store. Saturday afternoon we left for Seattle. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for a great Thanksgiving weekend!


Ashley was a little happier to sit by the snowmen than Santa.



Uncle Mike and Brian

Grandma and Grandpa

Steve and Steph's house in on the left and Brian, Uncle Mike and mine is on the right