I am grateful for many things, but did not list them in this post

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We experienced Thanksgiving with just our family of six for the first time that I can remember. It was low key. Sorry, Norman Rockwell, my kids didn't all have an appreciation for the traditional Thanksgiving dinner but I still slaved on it for hours (and made sure Ben did too).

This is what dinner looked like at the Burton home:



Zack and Mylie each had a bite or two then decided it was too gross to finish and ran downstairs.

Andrew was a bit more polite with, "May I please be excused? I think I need to throw up..."

Oh well, I expected this reaction. They ate mac and cheese later.

Here is how our turkey turned out:



We also made apple turkeys which has been a family tradition since I was little. Andrew and Zack usually make some sort of monster or dinosaur or alien. Remember, I already said they were non-traditionalist...







At one point, I looked up, and just like the cat that ate the canary, here is Mylie with her mouth full of "turkey feathers."


So, that was our Thanksgiving....

Now for a bit of blog catch up:

Zack gets himself ready for church:




He chose three separate articles of clothing that had at some point been worn to church. I wouldn't let him wear this particular combo to church, but was impressed by his effort so I took some pictures.

Maddie got her ears pierced about an hour after her soccer season ended. She has been waiting for me to take her for quite a while, but it seems like she always had a sport going on. We figured out that we had just enough weeks between soccer and basketball, so we set of for Claire's in the mall. If you watch the video, you will see Andrew is all over the place. Also, the music on the video was what was playing on the store sound system.