Springfield

For Thanksgiving we went home.  Not because we wanted to fight all the crowds at the airport, but because a very special person was getting married.

We flew into KC first and got to spend Thanksgiving evening with Mimi and Papa.

And Aunt Tinney.

And the kids even got their first Christmas presents, jammies!

Then it was time for a bedtime story and night night.  It was a long day!

The next day we headed to Springfield.  It was black Friday, but first we had to hit up Lamberts.

Then onto Black Friday deals and steals!!

I would have stolen this, but it's illegal.

They had a ton of free stuff for the kids to do including a big slide, Santa and a carousel.

They even had a REAL alligator!!  It didn't look real at first, but when we went past it a second time it was in a different position.  Definitely real.

And turtles.

The next day was the wedding.  Thought I was going to get called into duty because the photographer was 45 minutes late, but I didn't.  Good thing!  I went and took all of 5 pictures with my point and shoot.  This was the first one, I'm sure Chuck is shaking his head right now.

This was the grooms cake!  John is a farmer.

And the happy couple, John and Summer.

And Grandma teaching Aaron how to play Candyland.  He did really well considering it was his first time!!

We went back to KC the next day and then I made plans with Chuck's cousins, Shannon and Jessica and their boys to go play.  Delaney had a great time!!

Was even doing the little slide all by herself!!

Of course there was a water table.  This is Aaron playing with Klay.

And Delaney playing near Parker.

And little Kolson.

And of course trains.  Good thing they had this in the very back of the whole joint.  Otherwise we would have never gotten past them.

And face painting.  I'm praising God Aaron isn't into face painting.

Klay was a tiger!  Go Tigers!!!!!

Huh!  So was Parker!  I guess Shannon will learn again how black and gold everything is in Missouri and not so maroon.  Shannon is even brave enough to have Parker paint on her face!

Then they had a little time where they read a story, did a craft and then a cooking activity.  They were making sugar cookies.

Really just putting the M&Ms on them.

Enjoying their cookies.

We had a great time!!  We missed going to Missoula for Thanksgiving but we went home for a good reason and even got to see (half of) who we would have seen in Missoula.