Bristle Family: Pictures of Thanksgiving, milestones and gingerbread houses :)

Ryan and I are continuing to start new traditions. We have found that this has been very helpful during our healing. So, as a result.....we had Thanksgiving at our house for the first time! We were excited to host Thanksgiving. Ryan's parents were in town for the holiday and they helped with all of the preparations. My mom and stepdad and most of my siblings were there and everyone pitched in. A new tradition that we have started is to go to a movie together as a family on Thanksgiving evening. We all went to see "A Christmas Carol." The kids just loved it....especially since they got to wear the cool 3-D glasses! The next day, we went to my aunt and uncle's house, here in Tulsa, where we celebrated another Thanksgiving dinner with my dad and stepmom and my siblings. It was so nice to be around family during this time. Here are a few pics of our holiday.

Avery's first Thanksgiving :)

Papa, Logan and Addison enjoying their Thanksgiving dinner

Family picture - Thanksgiving 2009

Mommy and Avery

Cute little Avery :)

After our thanksgiving dinner together, we went out to decorate Landon's marker with a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a thanksgiving bib that we wrapped around the bottom of the vase. I can only imagine the type of celebration that Landon got to experience on his first Thanksgiving with our Lord and Saviour in heaven.

Well, let's talk about some of Avery's milestones. You all would just not believe how much Avery is changing before our eyes! She is growing so fast and is doing so many new things. She has been such a blessing and we are so thankful for her. She now has 4 teeth....two top and two bottom. This just makes her smile even cuter! So now she gets to enjoy those yummy biter biscuits! :)

Hmmm...let's see. Do I like this?

Ahhh yes....this is great! Finally, I get to chew something!!! :)

Avery is also starting to crawl! It is just so cute to see her little body crawling around everywhere! And boy, does she like the fact that she is now mobile. It is so cute to see her try to keep up with Logan and Addison.

We also had a lot of fun making our very first gingerbread house! Logan and Addison were eating the candy faster than daddy was trying to put it on the house!