Thanksgiving Fun

This Thanksgiving turned into a relaxing weekend of family, hiking, and delicious food. We headed to the Knowles side of the family for Thanksgiving dinner. We played many games inside and lucked out with some cold but sunny weather outside. It was a wonderful day and I couldn't have asked for a better time.

Liam spent some time pushing grandma's gardening wagon around the neighborhood

We played a ton of games outside, including capture the flag and red light, green light

Maya and Callie were a team and Preston and Laurel were a team.

I love this picture - Preston and Laurel (on Preston's back) are sneaking up on the 2 girls

Enjoying some grandpa snuggles

After dinner, we headed over to Hoodsport to spend a quiet weekend at the cabin. We hit up some local hiking trails and spent some time at the beach throwing rocks in the water. The way home from the cabin, we decided to find a u-cut tree farm to get our Christmas tree. We kept with the Knowles tradition of getting lost on the way to the farm, but ended up find the 'perfect' tree (when we eventually found the farm).

Pre hike picture

We found a pretty awesome cave on the hike and Preston and the kids ventured in for a bit of a look around. They didn't stay in there long - they found some massive bugs

Did I mention it was very cold?

We found giant icicles along the way

Nothing like a hollow tree to enjoy a snack

Helping Daddy scout for deer :)

We carried those binoculars around everywhere!

A little beach fun

Liam would not stop running around the tree farm for a picture with Callie so she took one by herself. The 'perfect' tree!

Helping Daddy cut it down

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