Random Thanksgiving Pictures

In order to get as many pictures from our Thanksgiving trip as possible onto the blog, I decided to go with a slide show. Hope you enjoy some scenes from our trip.

Chicago

Thanksgiving night we loaded into a shuttle bus, compliments of Bible Baptist Church in Highland, and went to Chicago. It was fun to see Chicago again and to show the boys the big city. We went downtown to see some Christmas lights on the Magnificent Mile. Here are a few photos of our trip to the windy city.

Here are a few of the windows at Macy's:









Nana wanted to sit on Santa's lap!





The Wrigley Building in Chicago is one of my favorite buildings.



Chicago's Christmas tree in Daley Plaza.



Logan saw this big pigeon and yelled, "Look! A turkey!" We got a good laugh out of that.



Where's Brooke? :)



The "original" Farley kids:



Bill, Katharine, Kit and Ethan Farley



Papa, Nana and the grandkids. . .. well, some of them. The babies didn't get off the bus.


Hubba-Hubba!



Cousins



David had to go by Soldier Field for a picture.



Here we were at the base of the Sears Tower, which some weirdo renamed Willis Tower.

Happy Birthday, Nana

Since we were all together in Indiana, we decided to celebrate Nana's November 30th birthday together with a surprise birthday party.

My Logan

Well, I thought I wouldn't post any more since I should be busy packing up for our trip. But my Logan was so cute I had to share his latest photos with you.

This morning is Pilgrim and Indian day at school. Last night I made Trevor a little indian headband and I had some leftover feathers for Logan. He's been happy to wear his little hat and say, "Hi-ya-ya-ya Hi-ya-ya-ya" this morning.



Last night he was so cuddly after his bath I wanted to capture that moment so I wouldn't forget it.

And We're Off!

Tomorrow we are going to begin our family vacation. . . . with a nice, long 9 hour + drive! Doesn't that sound like fun? Today I am going to Wal-Mart (where else?) to get those last few things to bring on our trip. I'm thinking glow sticks, Matchbox cars and a few other goodies to keep the boys occupied while we drive. Although I'm not particularly looking forward to the long drive, I am looking forward to the time we'll get to spend with David's family. We'll be staying with his brother Bill, and it sounds like he'll have a house full! You probably won't hear from me for a while, but when I come back, I'll have many photos to post, so stay tuned!

Of course, I can't very well make a blog post without posting pictures of my baby girl. Yesterday was an unusual Sunday for us. We went to a friend's home for lunch, and had a delicious meal of roast, veggies, bread and carrot cake. Since we were not home, and had a bit of a drive, Brooke was quite a bit off her normal schedule. She would cat nap for a few minutes, then be up for a long time. She didn't take her normal long afternoon nap but I knew she was tired. I got her all ready for church, then left her in the crib so I could get ready. She quickly fell asleep for another brief cat nap!




After church I needed to practice with some singing groups. Since it's hard to hold a baby and play the piano at the same time, I asked a lady from church to hold on to Brooke. She said Brooke was just sitting contentedly, listening to the music when she finally couldn't take it anymore and just fell asleep. My poor, tired baby fell asleep sitting in this lady's lap. Isn't this picture hilarious?

Bowling

We had a church-wide bowling activity Saturday evening. My kids were so excited to get a chance to bowl at our local bowling alley.









Brooke thought bowling was alright, at first.



But by the end of the night she changed her tune! :)

Brooke-a-Baby

Brooke-a-Baby is the sing-songy nickname our little girl has received. She's just so much fun to be around as she develops her little personality. She really is a little sweetheart.

Here she is, gnawing on that lip again!









Sunday Brooke and I got a lot of compliments on our matching outfits.

Leaves!

It's a shame that our house is over 100 years old, but we don't have any trees to show for it! Our neighbor has a lot of trees and she's been raking the leaves into a ginormous pile. She mentioned how nice it would be for kids to jump into her leaf pile, so we took advantage of her kindness and let the kids play till they couldn't play anymore. They spent a few hours in those leaves Saturday.

Worn Out

Logan was so worn out Saturday, he was literally sleeping at the dinner table! Once David had to run and catch him, since he almost leaned all the way out of his chair and onto the floor!

Veterans Sunday

The Sunday before Veterans day, we had a special service at church. We invited as many veterans as we could to come that day so we could honor them for their service to our country. It was such a nice service, and we had many visiting veterans, as well as veterans from our own church. Each veteran gave their name, what branch of the service they were in, and what years they served. It was very moving and touching to see these men who served our country.

At the beginning of the service I played a medley of the songs from each of the military branches. As I played the Air Force song, Trevor came out carrying the Air Force flag. He chose that one because the flag is blue!



As you can see, by the end of the song, each military branch was represented.



My view from the piano:



This young man Shane is currently serving in the army, and just recently returned from Iraq.



I had to include my own grandfather. Isn't he so handsome?



Here's one of our own church men, who was in the 82nd Airborne Division. I thought it was pretty funny when Pastor said, "I never could see the sense of jumping out of a perfectly good plane!"



This is Mr. Clinger, a World War II veteran.