Thanksgiving in Iowa!

 For Thanksgiving this year we drove up to Iowa to spend it with Aunt Llew and grandpa and grandma Anderson who also drove there. We had a very uneventful drive, which is good because g & g Anderson had a very eventful one (a blizzard and they hit a deer).  We had Nathans birthday party early in the week (so he would have toys to play with). He got some new Lego people from grandma and grandpa.

A catapult from Aunt Llew

A superhero matching game also from Aunt Llew

A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (Raphael) from Aunt Heather

A castle from mom and dad

Sitting cute with grandma

"Thanks grandma, your the best!"

opening a package from Aunt Heather

 For Nathan's birthday I kept asking him what kind of cake he wanted this year, and every time I asked he told me he wanted a "green mint" cake. I don't know what he meant, so I made him a mint ice cream cake with brownies. He was happy with it, so I guess I got it right.

 Aunt Llew had a meeting in Ames and had told us about a place to visit Santa's Workshop, so we came along. It was at Reiman Gardens at Iowa State. They had a butterfly center that the boys enjoyed.

Watching butterflies come out of their cocoons.

 The butterfly center was pretty neat. There were lots of butterflies flying all around us.

 This was what they were calling Santa's Workshop. It was really lame. Nathan was very disappointed with it. I had to tell him that there is another one and this one is just pretend.

Cute

Nathan was pretending like he was flying on a butterfly

AJ says "Cheese" anytime there is a camera out

AJ and his buddy Taft

Anderson with grandpa Anderson

Llews friend Ben was out of town for Thanksgiving so we got to have Taft stay with us. AJ LOVED him. They played together, kissed lots, and ate together ( AJ fed Taft all his food off his tray and hand fed him his own food out of his bowl).

Our thankful turkey

Sweet

 Aunt Llew let us (Nathan) help her decorate her Christmas tree. Nate was so excited about it, he was very careful too.

 Grandpa read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to Nate, and Nate was very confused/surprised when grandma, Aunt Llew and mommy all helped too.

Good picture of my dad.

Thank you for letting us come stay with you Aunt Llew, we had a really good trip full of fun!