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This year's Thanksgiving was wonderful! We started the holiday off with my parents arriving on Wednesday night. Claire was sooooo excited that they were coming!!! Well, I guess I should correct myself and say that we started the holiday off with Rob killing a deer.... you can see the last pic for more details... Claire was so funny. We always say, "Daddy is in the woods trying to catch a deer" and she always wonders if he caught one or not. He called that afternoon to tell me that he got one ..... Claire was playing in the playroom and I yelled to her, "Guess what, Claire? Daddy caught a deer!" She just started giggling and saying she wanted to see it. When he brought it to the house she wasn't so sure. He had shot it in his lung .. if you are a hunter you know what this means but if you are unfamiliar with hunting-this means there was bloody foam oozing out of the deer's nose. Yes, yuck! I walked out and said" Rob, don't show her that" and Claire heard me, so when Rob was showing her the deer, she said "No, I can't see that!" He cleaned up the deer and then she looked at it some more. When trying to take a picture we tried to get her to hold the horns, at first she said "I can't... he's got a looooong tounge!" And he did, it was hanging sideways. The whole experience was really funny and if you aren't from the south or don't hunt then you probably think from this post that we are a bunch of hicks!! :) But it was too funny not to share.

Well, here are some more picture of our Thanksgiving week/weekend! We are very Thankful for our blessings... we truly have too many to count. Mostly, I am thankful for my family and the time I get to spend with all of them. Our daily life is pretty crazy, but I am thankful for all of these little children in my life...... we have them everywhere! :)

Sibling love........