Thanksgiving centerpieces

I wanted to post about our Thanksgiving centerpieces that Chase and Cody made for our table.

I didn't have time before this to do it and thought that it could also be used for a Christmas table centerpiece with the word Santa or Merry Christmas.

I saw this craft in Parents Magazine Turkey Day Table Centerpiece and adapted to Chase and Cody's abilities . It turned out cute.

What I did was found letters on the Internet that were colorable that I printed out. Chase and Cody colored them.

I then traced a circle on different colored construction paper and they cut out the circle.

We did this over a few weeks because they would get tired of cutting out circles and coloring it.

I cut out the colored letters and they pasted them on the circle spelling out the words;

Happy Thanksgiving

He is the finished result at home.

I had the boys glue straws to the back of the circle to make them stand up. We used red paper cups and dirt from the desert to put this in as the centerpiece of our table.

Here are the kids filling up the cups with dirt. It really kept them busy and out of the way while we were getting the last of the dinner prep ready. You don't have to use dirt but you could also use beans.
I forgot a didn't get a actual picture of them all on the table, but everyone liked that Chase and Cody had worked hard and turned out very cute.

I hope this gave someone an idea for there Christmas table centerpieces.

Two for Twos-day

Playing along today with Debi and Two for Twos-day! Click the box to play along also!

From this Thanksgiving...Steve and Big K setting up one of the deep fryers used to cook one of the 5 turkeys we deep fried for our huge Thanksgiving dinner!

We had about 50 people and a huge long table all put together out in the middle of nature in the middle of the desert. Where the sky was as beautiful as possible and the weather was perfect!!

Makes My Monday

We are home!

We had a wonderful time at the desert and a great Thanksgiving dinner.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving also.

Here is a few pictures to summarize our trip to the desert.

Steve coming down a hill in the jeep.

Cody and Chase following Shane in the rhino on their "quads".

Just remembering all the things that we are Thankful for this last week and every week Makes My Monday! Check in with Cheryl too see other's Makes My Monday's!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Poems:

"Thanksgiving Feasting
When the Halloween pumpkins are gone,
And the leaves have all fallen to ground,
When the air has turned windy and cold,
Then Thanksgiving will soon be around.
Thoughts of loved ones all feasting together,
Pleasant pictures from past times appear
To dwell in each heart and each mind--
Then Thanksgiving is finally here!
The kitchen has scrumptious aromas,
The dining room looks oh, so fine,
Decorations with pilgrims and turkeys,
And now we are ready to dine!
First the napkins are placed on our laps;
Now the prayer for the meal to be blessed,
Then we stuff the good food in our tummies,
And we hope for it all to digest!
By Joanna Fuchs"

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

To the Desert

We will be spending all weekend at the desert, including eating our Thanksgiving dinner there!!

We can't wait and look forward to these 6 days there all year!!

Hope everyone has a great week and talk to you all when we get back!

We are back home

I am hoping everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We sure did in the desert. Thanksgiving day we had a few sprinkles of rain about the time dessert came along. Nothing to much to stop me from eating lots of good pie!

I have a bunch of pictures to post of us in the desert. Steve crashed (rolled) the jeep so I have pictures of the damage to the Jeep. He and his brother were fine. But I didn't bring my camera card with me to work so maybe I will post pictures of that tonight.

I also have our Christmas pictures that were taken with Chase and Cody's cousins that turned out wonderful. I will have to show you some of those also!

We are also going out of town again this weekend so I am getting ready for that. I have a tag or two to get too also. I haven't forgotten.

Weekend Update

We had a great weekend. Here are some the highlights.

Friday: I took Chase and Cody for hair cuts. They did very well, including Cody. There was no crying or fussing. It was wonderful. They looked so cute afterwards. We also did a little bit of shopping for shoes for them, we ended up with these boots.

They will work wonderful for the desert season that is coming up. Chase and Cody also wore them for there pictures on Saturday.

Saturday Chase and Cody had there Christmas pictures taken with there cousins, Tyler, Christina and Tatum. We had a photographer meet us at the park. I think the pictures turned out awesome and can't wait to see them.

Saturday we also had turkey dinner early with Steve's family. It's been a tradition for a few years now so on Thanksgiving we can each do our own thing with other family. The food was wonderful, like always, thanks to Grammy and Pop for making it all. Chase and Cody played with Tatum all afternoon and had a blast sitting on the quad with her. They can't wait for the desert this weekend.

Sunday we worked on loading the motorhome, Rhino and Jeep. Cody was so tired he fell asleep about noon for a nap. Chase said he was too busy for a nap so he went to bed early at 7:30pm. We still have some more to do with loading the motorhome but we will get it done!

Chase and Cody did have enough time in the afternoon to play in there sand box though.

Hope everyone else had a great weekend also!