Gobble gobble

This Thanksgiving was alot busier than last with the addition of 2 babies and Zander who is ALOT more active this year than he was last year.  What happened to our little peanut who just layed on the chair, not able to move around or talk and was so well behaved?  At barely 2 months old we didn't have to worry about him pulling off the oranments from Grandma's Christmas tree, or climbing on the table to get food, or stealing toys or anything else that Zander gets in his mind.  Oh Zander you do make it lively where ever you are, that's for sure!!

Hunter had fun being with his cousins and uncles and was a little excited to be staying the night over at Grandma Lori's and Grandpa Marks.  With Hunter staying the night, Jason and I thought that maybe we could hit a couple of stores on the way home since Toys R Us and Walmart were opening up on Thanksgiving night with deals.  I told Jason it's probably going to be pretty busy, his comment was, "How busy could it be, we live in Traverse City?"  Well we soon found out.  Arriving at Toys R Us at 10pm (exactly the time the store opened their doors) the line was 3-4 people wide and wrapped around the complex which included a couple of stores.  Jason attempted to go wait in line while I stayed in the warm van with Zander sound asleep.  I figured it had been a whole 5 min. so I would drive around and see where he was in the line, I didn't even get to him and he was walking back to the van already frozen and in shock that it would have taken him about 2 hours to be let in the store, (they were only letting in 50 people every 10 min.) Next we made our way to Walmart, another BIG mistake.  The people in there were even crazier than normal.  You couldn't make your way down the aisles because everybody was standing by the stacks of toys that were still wrapped up in plastic and protecting the ones they wanted.  We left shortly after arriving, but it would have been quite funny to stand back and watch all these people fight for what they wanted. 

So by 11:30pm we were home with nothing to show for but we were warm and Zander was in bed and it was quiet and all was good even though we didn't cash in on the deals, and I was NOT getting myself up the next morning to shop, I was staying in bed!!!

The whole night Zander was pulling ornaments off of Grandma's tree,
 he especially liked Hunters ornament with Santa

Take a closer look at this ornament Grandpa

The first Folgmann kids table

Grandpa and Hunter were being ninka-poops and kept their hands in front of their face

Zander taking a seat to finish up Hunters left over pumpkin pie

If you leave food laying around, Zander will be sure to finish it off

And he LOVED pumpkin pie

Little Alivia and her big cousin Zander

Once again trying to get all the grandkids, not working