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Thanksgiving

Thankgiving was amazing! We managed to enjoy family, play football, go hiking, go beaching, and overall just relax.
Our Thanksgiving started out at the Knowles house complete with our first annual flag football game; Grunders vs. the Broncos. So thankful that everyone got out on the field and there were many, many giggles and fun had by all.
The painting of the field and team names

No smiles at first....a bit apprehensive at the beginning but she got into it very quickly

we started out with our own cheering squad

Friendly coin toss

Halftime snuggles by the fire

Teammates

The kids showing off their muscles at halftime

After the game, we had an amazing dinner complete with an actual kids table. We started some new and amazing traditions this year! After dinner we headed to our cabin and spent the rest of the rainy weekend at the cabin. We hiked a bit (although it was so wet!), enjoyed some ice cream, and tried to find crabs at the beach. 
Callie was the only one brave enough to venture into the cave. The picture doesn't show clearly how much rain is pouring off the moss and down in front of the cave

Makes my heart melt!

Parts of the trail were very, very flooded. Most kids would love splashing and running through it...Liam took some convincing

She (almost always) can successfully turn Liam's mood around





Making playdough cupcakes together

Football snuggles

The day we headed back home we stopped in the woods on the way home and cut down the "perfect" Christmas tree



Oh....and we had some ice cream :)

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