Thanksgiving in Mac Town!

 

Thanksgiving Eve - we drove to McPherson to celebrate Thanksgiving with Grandpa Don, Uncle Brian, Aunt Sarah, Uncle Mark, and cousin Izzy!

Dad had been home from Florida for 2 weeks to prepare 

for us and had been cooking up a storm!

The girls made gingerbread houses!

So creative . . . 

Sisters!!

SO MUCH FOOD! Dad made THREE jello salads!!

Brian helping chop onions!

Sister cousins are now ALL teenagers!

{Kate-13, Izzy-16, Molly-16}

Time to eat!

Pix taken by Sarah! We missed Lucas this year!

And of course we ALWAYS miss Grandma Jojo/Mom.

Back to their gingerbread . . .

The 4 of us took a long after dinner walk while 

Mike did the dishes for us!

Friday is our traditional shopping and out to lunch day for the girls!

We LOVE downtown Main Street in McPherson!

Love SISTER time!

Mike took a pix of he and the boys out on Grandpa's land! 

They went to shoot clay pigeons and had a lotta' fun . . .

Izzy & Molly made blankets - so crafty!

And we left Grandpa a 5 star review . . . 

Our Week in Pictures . . .

 

Went to see Wicked For Good with our friends the Peters, who we have gotten to know from Molly!  She met Malloy last year as freshman together at Saint James. And Malloy has two adorable younger sisters, one is in 7th grade like Kate! So we planned a dinner/movie date - the Moms & Girls!  It was fun!

Bear wants to cuddle a bit more on these cold early winter mornings. 

Look at that adorable face!

Molly's still life artwork from her art class this year - 

7th Grade Shenangians at School . . .

Molly and a group of friends put together a CYO sophomore basketball team and they are SO FUN!  I just love the friends she has made at SJA

They are called the Alley Hoops and I crack up at their fun instagram 

account - see little Molly below!

FRIENDSGIVING!

 

Mike and decided to host our friends for a Friendsgiving Celebration the weekend before Thanksgiving this year! It was a beautiful fall day and we roasted two turkey breasts and everyone brought their favorite side dishes! It was SO MUCH FUN!

The party kicked off at 4:00 p.m.! Our yard was COVERED 

in leaves and I love it like that!

I made some fun napkins holders with thyme that hasn't yet 

froze from my garden! They smelled AMAZING!

I set up our long folding table in the front room so

we wouldn't be crowded in the kitchen . . .

Frozen cranberries for cocktails!

It was so nice out - we had drinks/appetizers 

outside until the sun went down!

My guy.

Meg & Kirsten helping fill water glasses!

LOVE this crew of friends! 

SO much good food!

{Sarah, Elizabeth, Adrienne, Katy, Me, Meg, Kirsten}

{Marc, John, Bryan, Sean, Mike, Greg- Missing Kenny}

Eat, Drink & Be Merry!

This crew is FUN! Mike and I feel so blessed!

Molly's Sweet 16th Birthday Party!

Molly wanted to celebrate her birthday on Sunday late afternoon as Saint James didn't have school on Monday - so 16 on the 16th it was to celebrate this awesome girl! 

Six friends from St. James came over around 3:30 p.m. to start the celebration!

I drove the 7 of them to the Plaza - where the sun was just starting to set and it was a beautiful night! The girls shopped and took pix while I watched the chiefs game from the restaurant they were meeting me at 6:00 - True Foot Kitchen! They sat at their own table and had a great time, loved hearing them singing Happy Birthday to Molly loudly from the other side of the restaurant!  

She has made some WONDERFUL friendships at St. James already in just the 15 months she's been there!  These girls are SO fun, kind, polite and faith filled! 

{Anna, Leah, Molly, Mary, Ellie}

{Molly & Tatum}

{Molly & Malloy}

Ellie & Malloy stayed the night after the party, and had coffee up at Meadowbrook Park together - and took a few pix with the beautiful trees!

{Malloy & Molly}

{Molly & Ellie}

A Reichenberger Wedding!

 

One of my last cousin's to get married, Katie Reichenberger, tied the knot in Derby, Kansas on Saturday and the reception was afterwards at a beautiful dairy farm and pumpkin patch in Clearwater. It was so fun getting to see many of my cousins, aunts and uncles as well as the girls cousins and 2nd cousins!

The weather could not have been more gorgeous for a fall wedding. In the 70's in the afternoon, cooling down to low 60's that night. It was GORGEOUS!

This cutie is the best wedding date always - and remembers my cousins, and huge families names better than I do most of the time!

 Sarah, Mark and Izzy came too! 

Cousins! (Molly couldn't come with us as she had a volunteer commitment that day with Saint James)

Kate (13), Izzy (16)

Of course, we wanted to jump with the 

little girls on the HUGE trampoline!

SO FUN! Jumping at sunset on the most gorgeous

 fall day with some of my cousins' daughters!

Sisters!

The beautiful bride and her wedding party . . .

Just a few of the many 2nd cousins with the beautiful bride Katie!

Just a few of my cousins and me!

 

The babies always love Kate!

Kate, Katie Rose, and Izzy on the dance floor!