These are a few of my favorite things.....Thanksgiving 2011

It was my intention to post everyday leading up to Thanksgiving on things I am thankful for. There are so many things (items) I have now that I didn't have in Thailand. I immediately started thinking about how thankful I was for a washer AND dryer a garbage disposal a dishwasher.....but then I loaded some of these photos that I have taken over the last few weeks since being home. These are the things I am most thankful for:

Sawyer is a joy. His smile in the morning is a light and I am thankful for the joy he has and brings to life.

YAY for garage sales! My sister in law Kelly and I packed the boys up and took them yard saleing. We bought them hotcakes at Macdonalds and they were so pumped up about it. I'm so thankful for great deals at yard sales and fun with my sis in law.

My newest nephew Arthur was born a little over a week before I came home. I am so thankful to be able to snuggle and kiss this sweet little guy,

Sawyer and Percy are thankful for Ari too

These pictures were taken on a beautiful day at the park. I love watching Sawyer play!

Sawyer watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade for the first time ever. He could not get enough. He wanted to watch it all day and when it was over he said let's watch again. There was a Dora balloon that Percy had and Sawyer started marching around the room with it he said it was his Dora float. haha

I found this cute idea on Pintrest and made turkey shirts for the boys. I took their hand print for the feathers. Even Ari had a tiny one.

They were not fans of the shirts haha they ripped all the "feathers" off within 2 min.

 We are all thankful Paul and Amanda are here!

My best friend Jennifer and her beautiful family were in town for Thanksgiving. Sawyer and her son Ezra were able to play together one afternoon. I am so so thankful for lifelong friends! 

Sweet little twin buddies. I got to hang out with these guys a lot before their move to Florida. We are so thankful for the Ruckel family and are blessed to be their friends. 

Hunt Club Farm...punkins

Hunt club farm has become a little tradition of our in the fall. We have taken sawyer there every fall to pick out a pumpkin and see the animals. It's fun now he's older he can actually enjoy it more. We had been talking about going and picking out a pumpkin for a while so Sawyer was obsessed with getting there. He had so much fun running around trying to find the perfect one. 

They had a huge pile of hay and the boys had a blast playing in it :-)

As soon as Sawyer found the slide and playground he didn't care to see the animals anymore. That's my boy all about the climbing, sliding and jumping.

Percy LOVED the pony ride as always. He is so cute on that pony riding around with that huge grin.

"A PUNKIN"

Driving the tractor with Graa

Driving is very serious business....

Sawyer's pants were too bug but he is really the cutest thing I've ever seen. HAHA look at that face!

That's my happy boy

I love him so much

Finally found the perfect one!

The Adventures of Sawyer and Finn

Sawyer has a great little buddy Finn. I was typing the title out for this post and I said to Tyson "the adventures of Sawyer and Finn that sounds like a novel". haha "Wait it is a novel". I didn't even put it together until then Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Anyway they are perfect little buddies and I guess it was meant to be. Sawyer loves hanging out and playing with Finn. They are so silly and have such a great time together. The laugh and run and play cars and pretty much like to do anything together.

I'm so thankful the Lord brought such a sweet family into our lives and that Sawyer has a great friend in Finn. 

Here they are at the mall 

We went to the aquarium a few times and the zoo. My camera battery died so I didn't get many pictures.

Running or course running......

ICE CREAM!

Our last week in Thailand we got to hang out with Finn and Jen several times. One afternoon we took the boys to the train station. They have a big train out front the kids can play on. Sawyer is so into playing with trains this was something I've been wanting to do for a while.

I think they have a few more adventures in store.....