The Garvin Family Thanksgiving

This year Bob's family came out to us for Thanksgiving. 

 

This was the third Thanksgiving meal that I had cooked.

 

The first was for my own family plus Titus.  After all the time in the kitchen we sat down to eat and they scarfed it down in about 5 minutes and were gone.  Needless to say it was a little anti-climactic!

 

The second was for the Martin family, and that was a blast.  I had underestimated the time to cook the turkey, so we ate about an hour and a half later than I had intended.

 

So now for my third time I should have it all prefected right!?  I decided to use the convection roast setting on my new oven and well...I totally over cooked the turkey.  Thank goodness I had brined it otherwise it would have been as dry as a bone!!  So I have learned...turkey, shmirkey...it's all about the sides, right???

 

I actually didn't take any pictures of all the food, but more importantly the people we shared the meal with.  The only picture I missed was a picture of Grandma teaching Emily how to make rinkey-dinks out of the extra pie crust.  They had fun in the kitchen together.

 

So here we all are gathered around the table.

 

Jack, Mitchell, and Emily

Samuel and Hunter

Emily and Ella

Max eating his trail mix from his turkey nut cup (a tradition passed down from my mom)

Abby


And after dinner, the games were on!  Seidler (aka Settlers) and Monopoly were the popular games this year.

Aunt Jenn, Hunter, and Mike

 

 Mitchell, Hunter, and Emily

We certainly do have everything to give thanks for! 
Happy Thanksgiving!!

 

Who is Who??

When people are introduced to Drew the question of which kid Drew most resembles comes up the most.  To me, he seems to have his own little look.  So I decided to put up a picture of each child all around 2 months old to see any resemblances.

 

 

Are any of you able to tell who is who? 

 

If you can't, don't feel bad because even Bob missed a few!!

 





Who is Who - Part 2

 

Here is the order of the photos:

 

Drew

 

Sam

 

Jack

 

Emily

 

Abby

 

Max

 

 

So who do you think Drew looks like the most??






Drew's Baptism

 

Titus and his wife Alyssa were willing to come out to baptize Drew.  As you can tell from the picture the whole ordeal tuckered the little guy out!

 

We trust that God continues to keep his covenant promises to us.  He is our God and we are his people. It is such a privilege to be able to raise these children to be part of God's family.

 

God has certainly blessed us with a very special heritage of believers.  My own father and brother have been able to baptize four of our six kids.  And we pray that heritage will continue in this next generation and the next.



Two Months Old

 

Drew is now 2 months old!  His major accomplishments this month were sitting up in a Bumbo chair for short periods of time and a smile! 

 

The smile is such a great gift to a mom...after all the night time feedings, explosion diaper changes, fussy afternoon spells, etc., the smile just melts away any weariness of taking care of a newborn.

 

I think with each child I treasure these early days all the more, realizing that they don't last too long.