Thanksgiving/Nick's 6th Birthday

Blowing out the candle. Instead of buying an expensive cake I bought Nicholas 2 Star Wars figurines that he placed on top of the cake. By the way Nicholas baked this cake from start to finish by himself. He is quite the cook for a 6 year old.



Nicholas with just a few of his many cousins. Front: Breanne, Addriana, Nicholas. Back: Keaton, Janine, Gracie, Makoto, Alex, Yukino. It is so fun that Nicholas has his birthday so close to Thanksgiving. As a result he always has lots of family around. Growing up our birthday's were always just family so I love family parties.

Opening Presents. Nicholas loved all of his presents, Batman, Power Rangers, a football, new sketchers, Mario Kart and Kung Fu Panda.

This is all the family that stayed at our home over the Thanksgiving weekend. Starting on the left Gracie, Addriana, Brian, Breanne, Nicholas, Makoto, Cathenia, Dale, Janine, Alex, Bryon, Keaton and Michael.

Sisters! Cathenia and I have always been very close even though she is 7 years older than me. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful sister.

Thanksgiving this year was awesome. I think every year just keeps getting better. I knew we were going to have 10 extra people staying over and I knew it would get a little chaotic so I was determined to just let go and not stress. It ended up being so much fun. It started Midnight Wednesday when I was invited over to Jeanene Vespers for a nummy waffle/pancake puff fest. It was fun for my sister to meet some of my friends. She had a great time and said she wished she had friends like mine. Thanks guys you're awesome. The next day we had an amazing Turkey dinner with a lot of help from my sister Cathenia and niece Breanne. Nicholas even helped peel potatoes. I prepared some of the food the day before so it wouldn't be so stressful. After dinner and resting for a bit we went out and played football. It was so much fun. We came home sang Happy Birthday to Nicholas, opened presents, ate dessert and played games. We then studied the paper for Friday shopping. My sister Cathenia, nieces Janine and Breanne and I went out the next morning at 5am. We had a great time. Later that day some of us went to the Football game while others came with me and took Nicholas to the movies and to dinner since this was his actual birthday. Saturday was spent relaxing and then shopping in the afternoon. That night we had a fire in the backyard. Later we played games until 1am. We knew everyone would be leaving the next day so it was hard to go to bed. It was so sad in the morning when everyone had to leave. I ended up with a migraine and could not even go to church. Maybe it was a migraine caused from heartbreak. Thanks to all who came and made this the best Thanksgiving ever.