Birthdays and Thanksgiving

Last weekend we traveled to Ogallala to Grammy's house. We celebrated Grandma Cena's 70th birthday and Jayden's 4th birthday on the 22nd. We also celebrated Thanksgiving complete with a turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, salads, rolls, relishes, birthday cake, and 4 layer pudding dessert (a.k.a. better than sex cake). We had a pretty good trip both ways; Taya was a much better traveler than at 6 weeks old, but we were also more prepared!

Today we will host Papa for Thanskgiving. Omi, Aunt Erin, and Auntie Emlyn are in Oregon with grandma and grandpa Kennedy and Aunt Elysia stayed in St. Louis. Grammy is in Palm Springs, and I am not sure where Uncle Wade will end up. I am on-call so we stayed in Omaha. We participated in a Turkey Trot for our church (registration was food donations for the Food Bank). It felt good to be active and help the less fortunate. We are thankful for all of our many blessings, including our family and friends. Enjoy the pictures!!


Cade (in green and white) and grandma Cena holding Jayden.
Haley Mae (my cousin, Britni's, daughter) getting kisses from Nima.

Haley and Taya (they are ~5 months apart)

"HI!!"

In the midst of a "great-grandkids" photo, Jayden is holding her cousin Taya. Nathan is beside them (my cousin Jared's son, well....one of them)

Ethan with the girls. I think he may have more daughters in his future :)

Haley, Jacob (another of Jared's), and Taya. All are within about 10 months in age of each other. Taya is in Haley's Bumbo and we ended up purchasing one on our way home.

The Graves' great-grandkids

L-R: Taya, Jayden, Nathan, Luke (holding Jacob), Mathew, Haley, Zoe. The boys are Jared's, Zoe also belongs to Britni. We were missing Kenna, Maya, and Emma from the photo.

Grandma Cena and Grandpa Bud with the youngest generation of "Graves"

Uncle Wade. He was pretty facinated by his niece, esp. her chubby cheeks and many rolls

Grandma Cena with Taya

Taya trying out the Bumbo

The cutest baby ever at her first Thanksgiving feast

Grandma and Grandpa with the grandkids

L-R back: Cade, Ashton, Tanner, grandma, grandpa, Jared, Britni

front: Garrett, Tracy (me), Wade

In our thoughts were cousins Tyler and Katie. Tyler was working at the farm and Katie was at home in Iowa

We were able to chat with cousin Katie and baby Emma via webcam. We missed them terribly but how amazing is technology??? We love you!!