Thursday, November 29, 2007

Thanksgiving 2007: Round 1

This year we spent Thanksgiving day with the Cutting side and the day after Thanksgiving with the McDowell side. It was kind of nice to hang out with both sides of our family all day without having to rush from one place to another. Plus, we were able to enjoy two delicious meals without making ourselves completely sick trying to eat both in one day!!
For some reason I didn't get a ton of pictures, but we had a lot of fun and appreciate all the hard work our mom's (and dad's!) put into preparing the house and food. We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Ben & I are truly thankful that we have a healthy, happy family and that we live in a country where we can freely give thanks to our Lord for all he has done and given us. We are blessed way beyond what we deserve!

Grammy made Claire her very own little pumpkin pie!

Claire had her first "beater" experience!! She definitely enjoyed licking the homemade whip cream off that beater!



Claire also finger painted for the first time. Grammy has been waiting a long time to let her do this activity and Claire surprised all of us with how well she did. There were only a few attempts to eat the paint and she didn't make near the mess we expected!


Our little artist! Grammy has one of her masterpieces hanging in her house!!

"Hey... that's Uncle Brad!"

Brad drove in from Atlanta and spent a week here for Thanksgiving. Ben and Brad had fun going to the range to shoot and they also went with Grandpa to go Pheasant hunting. It was nice for Claire to see her Uncle Brad. He last saw her in early July. He was surprised at how much she had changed since then! She warmed up very quickly and loved playing with him!

1 comment:

The McDowell Family: CCS Resport said...

It looks like all of the Cuttings had a great Thanksgiving! It's so nice that Brad was home and he and Claire could spend some time together! It's just too bad he's far away!