Thanksgiving 2014

Thanksgiving 2014 felt a bit like Thanksgiving 2011 for us. We had a newborn baby boy and we hosted Sean's family at our house for Thanksgiving Dinner. It was great to be on our own turf, and to cook up a storm in our kitchen! The highlights & lowlights as I can remember them are:

• Landon eating turkey because we called it "chicken"
• Landon refusing to eat mashed potatoes (seriously? he may not be my son after all)
• Sharing Cohen (nearly 12 weeks old), the newest, not so littlest member of our family
• Eating dinner early so Sean and I could go to the 49ers-Seahawks game at Levi's Stadium! Big thanks to Grandma Donna, Pops, and Uncle Aaron for watching the boys for us!
• The great bottle strike: Cohen decided the week of Thanksgiving to all of a sudden refuse the bottle! He had taken one bottle of breastmilk a day since he was a week old! It threw us for a loop, but we got through it with the help from Grandma Donna, and a bit of a "baba bootcamp" (2 or more bottles a day leading up to Thanksgiving). Thank goodness he got over it, or else I wouldn't have been able to go to the Niner game!
• Hosting my extending family (who were also in town) and Sean's family for brunch on Friday. Over 20 of us enjoyed yummy food (not a Thanksgiving leftover in sight!) in the backyard, on a beautiful, warm & sunny morning
• Realizing that if I thought it was hard to get a good family photo before, I was mistaken! Landon is in a "silly" stage, and Cohen doesn't yet know how to smile & look at a camera on cue (don't worry...he's my kid, he'll learn soon!). There will be many more candid, silly, laughing photos in our future, and a lot less posed, perfect shots. That, or I will finally master the art of Photoshop and start swapping heads!
• Seeing Landon with Uncle Aaron, practicing on his skateboard
• Decorating for Christmas -- one of my all-time favorite days of the year! I think a home looks its best when it is decorated for the holidays! (The day we take down the Christmas decorations must be my least favorite day of the year).

This will do! Our family on Thanksgiving Day.

Skate or Die.

GG getting in some floor time with Cohen

4 generations of Greenwoods

The tree is up, and Landon's boots are awesome!