Thanksgiving

For the holidays, we trade off every other year between my family and Dev's. This year it was my family's time to host Thanksgiving. So we went up to Murray where two of my aunts and their families live and had dinner at a church building. There were not too many people there this year, just my Aunt Lori, her husband, and 8 out of 9 of their kids along with their spouses and kids, my Aunt Trista, her husband, and their 5 boys. My mom and brother were also there, and, of course, Devin, Mathias, and myself. It is always fun to get together with the family, especially now that Mathias is getting older and can play with his second cousins. I am grateful they live relatively close.

Here is Mathias sneaking a roll; but wait, one roll won't do - he needs two!

Here is most of the family playing a game called Where the Wind Blows, it's a variation of musical chairs, without the music. I opted not to play so I could look after Mathias and make sure he did not get into everything, even though while I took these pictures I got him sneaking some rolls off of the table, which is the picture above. It was a game for all ages and it looked like everyone was having fun!

I love it, even sick he still has a car in hand.

Of course, because we had plans and were going to be around a bunch of people today, Mathias decided to get sick. He woke up just fine, had breakfast and played as usual, then I looked over and he was laying on the floor by his toys, which was odd because he never slows down. So Devin picked him up and Mat was very snuggly; nay, overly snuggly. They were sitting on the couch when all of the sudden Mathias threw up..... everything. Poor Dev it got all over him and the couch and the floor. Then during nap time he did the same thing, even though all we had given him since he lost all of his breakfast was juice. We decided to go to dinner, just play it by ear, and hope for the best. Mathias was starving and kept begging for food so I got him a roll and some water and not two minutes after he started eating it did he throw up - again getting Devin. So then we told him no more food but he insisted and I could not just starve him or have food in front of him so I gave him a carrot and then he snatched a roll off of the table and when I tried to take it away from him he screamed at the top of his lungs. Thankfully he kept it all down and it ended up being only a one day (half day, really) thing.

Poor guy, doesn't he just look miserable - Mathias too. It did not last too long, and by the end of the day he was back to playing and being his very active self.