Thanksgiving recital

We were going to leave for Hilton Head early the day of the boys' Thanksgiving recital at school, but I decided the day before to leave later so Thomas and Matt could sing the songs they had been learning. I'm glad we waited...

Matt's class singing "We Are Thankful" (Matt is the 2nd from the right)

Thomas's class (he's in the orange and brown striped shirt)

Crazy haired Julia

I just love this picture of Julia and her crazy hair. She just woke up from a nap and looked so cute, I had to grab the camera.

Thanksgiving 2008 in Hilton Head, SC

Every year we're fortunate to spend Thanksgiving in Hilton Head, SC thanks to Tim's dad. He has about 4 timeshare properties he reserves for Thanksgiving and all the siblings try to meet there every year. We love going to Hilton Head and look forward to it weeks before Thanksgiving. The kids love seeing cousins Brittany, AJ and Danielle from Tennessee and cousins Amanda, Joseph, Christian and Samantha from North Carolina. Tim and Alex golf a few days, we visit Santa at the Shelter Cover mall and have a traditional dinner of steamed oysters, frogmore stew, peel 'n eat shrimp and yummy other seafood dishes at Steamers. It's usually too cold to go to the beach, though. This year my sister-in-law Karen and I rented bikes and pulled the kids around in little buggies.

The cousins in front of Hilton Head diner

Matt giving cousin Joseph a big hug

Me and Matt at the harbor


Matt and cousin Samantha checking out statue man


Thomas

Halloween 2008

I've been really, really bad about posting pictures because there are so many! Digital cameras are a blessing and a nuisance-I have a lot of pictures on my memory card, I just haven't saved them yet. I don't completely trust our back-up hard drive, so I also save monthly pictures on CDs and I took so many pictures from Halloween on, I just couldn't keep up! So here are Halloween pictures, finally...Thomas was Dale Earnhardt Jr., Matthew was Jeff Gordon, and Julia was a pumpkin, the same pumpkin Matthew was last year. The costume was too cute!

We had another Halloween get together with some of the neighbor kids-here they are in front of our house.

Julia and Daddy

On our back deck